Oyakodon / Chicken Don

For 2 chicken thighs / 4 portions

Ingredients:
For marinating the chicken (mix all ingredients below and marinate for 15mins):

  • 2pcs chicken thighs without bone (cut vein and prick the skin with knife for better absorb)
  • 2tbsp sake
  • 2tbsp soybean sauce
  • 1tsp ginger paste 
For frying:
Mixing all-purpose flour with tapioca flour with comparison 1:1

For cooking:
1pcs onion
1-2 green onion (divide white (cut sideways) and green parts (cut thin small for sprinkle))
15tbsp dashi / Japanese broth in liquid
3tbsp soybean sauce
3tbsp mirin
3tbsp sake
4pcs mixed eggs
White pepper
optional: white sesame

To-do:
  1. Marinate chicken for 15mins
  2. Pan fried marinated chicken covering with flour on a hot pan, fry until crispy skin outside. It's ok half cooked. Then get out of the oil, rest for around 5mins and cut in desire size. Put aside.
  3. Fry onion and white parts of green onion until fragrant
  4. Pour in dashi, soybean sauce, mirin and sake inside the pan. Cook for 1mins.
  5. Put cut chicken thighs and cook for another 3mins or until the chicken absorb the sauce
  6. Pour 2/3 of mixed eggs, close the pan cover and cook until the eggs become harden.
  7. When it's about ready, pour the rest of the mixed eggs and turn off the fire. That will make two level of egg texture, harden and half cooked eggs.
  8. Sprinkle with white pepper, green parts of green onion and white sesame.
  9. Guten Appetit!

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