From Midnight Diner: Tokyo Stories · 2016-2019 · Reconstructed
Omurice
Serve when
Serve when Amamiya, dripping from the rain, orders the same dish twice — once for himself, once for Yoona at the next stool.
In the series
Season 1
- S1E4 · ~00:05:30 Physicist Amamiya orders omurice at the counter and shares the moment with Yoona, a young Korean hostess, over the same dish
In the series
Omurice is the dish that gives Amamiya and Yoona a reason to keep sitting at the same counter, night after night, long after either of them needs an excuse. It's comfort food built for two people circling the same bowl.
Ingredients
- For the chicken rice:
- For the omelet:
Method
- Melt the butter in a pan over medium heat and sauté the onion until translucent, then add the chicken and cook until opaque with no pink remaining.
- Stir in the ketchup and cooked rice, breaking up any clumps, and fry until the rice is coated and lightly toasted. Season with salt and pepper, then shape into an oval mound on a plate.
- Whisk the eggs with milk and a pinch of salt.
- Melt the butter in a clean nonstick pan over medium heat, pour in the eggs, and stir gently until just set but still a little loose on top.
- Slide the omelet over the rice mound and let it settle, then slit it open down the middle so it falls open over the rice.
- Finish with a ribbon of ketchup down the center.
Substitutions
- Chicken thigh: Ham or shrimp both work if that's what's on hand — the point of the dish is the ketchup rice and the soft egg blanket over it, not the protein.