Oyako-donburi

This is another Japanese dish that I made a couple of times before. For some reason, each time I make it, I use a slightly different recipe... Very weird... The english translation of this dish is a mouthful, chicken and egg over rice, where a donburi (don for short) is basically a dish with topping served over rice.

Anyway, the word oyako in the name of this dish basically means parent-and-child (oya = parent, ko = child), taking into account the fact that both chicken and egg are brought together in one dish. Very poetic, hehe. That's what attracted me to the dish in the first place ;) So here's the recipe!

What you need:
500g chicken thigh fillets, cut into bite-sized pieces
1 yellow onion, sliced
1 shallot, sliced
Ginger and garlic (to taste, I used powdered forms)
3 spring onions, sliced into 1 inch pieces
3 eggs, beaten

For the sauce:
1 1/2 cups of dashi (fish stock, substitute with chicken stock if you cannot find it)
2 tablespoons light soy sauce (to taste)
2 tablespoons sugar (to taste)
Just a dash of dark soy sauce for color

What you do:

1. Add the sauce ingredients into a saucepan (with a lid) over medium heat. Add onion, shallot, ginger and garlic. Simmer for a few minutes, until the onion is slightly softened.
2. Add chicken and spring onions. Cover with the lid, and simmer until the chicken is cooked.
3. Lower heat, and pour the eggs over the chicken. Allow to cook for about a minute or two. Remove from heat and allow to cook some more. They should be cooked, but still be slightly runny.
4. Serve over rice in a bowl, if you want to go for the Japanese feeling :D

This one turned out better than expected. Hadi said that he preferred the ones before, since apparently, I used more soy sauce than this time, but Justin preferred this one. I must say, this one actually turned out better. The dashi (fish stock) definitely added a certain taste. I would recommend using it if you can get it. The eggs were properly cooked this time, as well. Cooked, but still creamy. The first time, the whole thing sort of disintegrated into the sauce, while the second time, it kinda made an omelette instead, haha. Today's one was just right! :D So that was nice.

We had more ice cream for dessert, this time LIGHT vanilla ice cream. This one had even less calories than the one yesterday. Hadi claimed that it was not ice cream, just icy milk, hahahahaha. And again, Justin was lamenting about the lost calories. My housemates are weird :P