Which Came First: The Chicken or the Don?

The chicken comes first in two ways; it came into being way before the don (“bowl” in Japanese) and chicken also comes first in this recipe: “Oyako Don” (which literally translates into “Chicken-and-Egg Bowl”). This recipe contains a chicken cutlet with cooked egg and onions over a bowl of rice, and it is super yummy!

Ingredients

·      Four bowls of rice

·      4-5 pieces of chicken breast

·      7-8 large chicken eggs + 1-2 beaten eggs for breading chicken

·      2 large yellow onions

·      ½ - 3/4 cup chicken broth

·      1-2 cups of panko/regular bread crumbs

·      1-2 cups of all-purpose flour

·      3-4 tbsp canola/vegetable oil

Cook the rice and keep hot. Cut the chicken breasts into 1-inch thick pieces. Place the flour, 1-2 beaten eggs, and panko/bread crumbs into their own individual plates, take each chicken strip and cover it with flour, then egg, then panko/bread crumbs, and place the breaded chicken strips on a clean plate. Heat the oil in a large frying pan over medium-high heat and fry up the chicken strips until crispy and golden brown. In the same frying pan, cook the onions until halfway cooked through, then add the chicken broth and cook all the way through. Once most/all of the chicken broth has been cooked off, put the onions onto a separate plate. Whisk the 7-8 eggs. Return ¼ on the onions to the pan, place 1.4 of the chicken cutlet pieces on top of the onions, pour about ¼ of the beaten eggs on top and around the chicken, and cook until the egg is fully cooked. Slide the chicken, onion, and egg combo onto a bowl of rice, and you’re all done!

This recipe doesn’t take too long, but it’s certainly worth the time to make! I hope you enjoy~ Have fun cooking!