Omu-Raisu

Omu-raisu, or omelette rice, is a Japan-ised version of Western cuisine. I first came across it in an anime I was watching (Canvas 2, horrible! Don't ever watch!). The characters in there were gushing so much about it, so I got curious. Omu-raisu is just basically nasi tomato, wrapped in an egg omelette.

There are about as many different recipes for omu-raisu as there are people who cook them, so the recipe below is adapted from the many different recipes that I found.

What you need:
Rice mix:
Vegetable oil
Boneless chicken, thinly sliced
1 onion, sliced
1 sausage, diced
1 mushrooms, sliced
3 cups cooked rice
1 tablespoon butter
salt and pepper

Flavouring:
1/2 cup tomato puree
2 tablespoons tomato ketchup
1 tablespoon rice vinegar
1 tablespoon sugar
salt and pepper

Omelette:
4 tablespoons butter
8 eggs

What to do:

1. Heat the oil in a frying pan. Add onion and stir until soft.
2. Add chicken, and season with salt and pepper. Once chicken is cooked, add sausage and mushrooms, and stir. Then, add the flavouring mix.
3. Simmer on medium heat for 5-6 minutes. Add cooked rice and butter and stir occasionally while cooking eggs. Season with some salt and pepper. I added a bit of garlic powder, as well. Just to give it some more taste. When it is heated through, turn off heat.
4. In a second (large! very large!) pan, add 1 tablespoon of butter. Add 2 eggs (beaten, seasoned with salt and white pepper).
5. When half-cooked (top is still creamy), add some of rice mix in the middle of the omelette.
6. The next bit is a bit tricky. Fold over the omelette over the rice, like you're wrapping a present. :P Careful not to tear the egg, it'll be very thin.
7. Then, carefully carefully, flip the egg 'package' over on a plate. Tuck the top and bottom of the omelette under the package as well.
8. Repeat for the other 6 eggs.

This sounds tricky, I know. But its quite easy once you get the hang of it. And it looks so pretty. :P There was supposed to be a sauce drizzled over the egg package, but we ran out of tomato ketchup, sigh. Its basically just tomato sauce mixed with worcestershire, if you're interested :D We also had some rice left over, since I couldn't fit that much into the omelette. So we just had that on its own :P

I would suggest you go easy on the tomato puree for the rice. The tomato taste isn't for everyone. I certainly don't like it all that much. :P And today was one of the rare times that Justin actually had to force down the last bits of his share, as he found it too tomato-ey as well. Hadi? Well, he thought it wasn't strong enough. Ah well. It all depends on taste, I suppose.

Speaking of Japanese stuff, me and Hadi found something very interesting in the chinese supermarket near our place. You guys familiar with Doraemon's favourite food, dorayaki? Here you go! The real life version, muahahaha.

Hadi also made some onigiri as...well, as an after-dinner snack, I suppose. (We are eating SO much, GAH >.<) Those are rice balls, to those of you who aren't Japan-o-philes. They looked very pretty, hehe. so here's a picture to treat you as well! ;) The stuff stuck on the rice is furikake, seasoning basically. Hadi took the unhealthier option. Though there was one with just nori and sesame, the one he bought has salt, sugar and MSG. Oh well. As long as its not everyday, I guess.