Why dip egg yolks in soy sauce

While your favorite Japanese restaurant is closed for quarantine, why not master a few simple recipes for Japanese cuisine yourself?

Do you know where to start and are afraid of failure? No problem. Editorial "Site" will gladly help you to train your culinary skills so that the result of cooking any exotic dish brings you only positive emotions.

In particular, today we will tell you how to turn the usual egg-yolk A real Japanese delicacy.



Tamago kake gohan is one of the simplest in cooking and the most popular dishes in Japan. This is where you can start learning traditional Japanese cuisine.



Tamago kake gohan Ingredients

• 4 chicken eggs
• 120ml soy sauce
• 30ml mirin vinegar
• 400g rice
• 600 ml of water
• salt

Preparation

1. Wash the eggs under warm running water and wipe dry. Then break each egg in turn and carefully separate the yolks from the proteins.
   
   
   
   
2. In a separate deep container, combine soy sauce with mirin vinegar and pour the yolk with the resulting mixture. Cover the bowl with yolks with a saucer or a suitable lid and put it in the refrigerator for one day.
   
   
   
   
   
   
3. Ready pickled yolks served in combination with rice boiled in salted water.
   
   
   
   

If desired, the dish can be decorated with sesame. Many also add chopped green onions and bacon to tamago kake gohan, but amber yolk remains the key ingredient in the dish anyway.

By the way, dishes with raw yolks are popular not only in Japan, but also in other countries of Asia. For example, the Koreans use pickled in a dish such as pibimpan, the basis of which is also boiled rice. But we will tell you more about it next time.



In the meantime, we say goodbye to give you the chance to enjoy the delicious tamago kake gohan of your own making.

Bon appetit!