Japanese Rooster Rice (Ketchup Rooster Fried Rice)

Japanese Rooster Rice is nothing like Hainanese rooster rice, though each have the phrases ‘rooster rice’ within the title. Japanese Rooster Rice is a fried rice with rooster and diced greens, seasoned with tomato ketchup.

It’s a standard rice dish amongst younger kids, maybe due to the vivid color and the dome-shaped presentation. The inexperienced peas within the centre additionally make the dish visually enticing.

About Japanese Rooster Rice

When individuals say ‘chikin raisu’ (チキンライス, rooster rice) in Japan, everybody consider as we speak’s dish. The set meals for youngsters known as ‘okosama ranchi’ (お子様ランチ, lunch set for youngsters) usually embrace Rooster Rice (photograph beneath).

Japanese Rooster Rice originated within the Taishō interval. It was initially known as ‘chikken raisu’ (チッケンライス) and the color of the rice was not purple because it didn’t use tomato ketchup. Chikken raisu was a Western type takikomi gohan by cooking rice with sautéed rooster items, and vegetable items collectively.

Chikken raisu was given to weak individuals in a type of Onigiri at Christmas events held by the church buildings. The voluntary employees thought that many kids would benefit from the Western type meals, chikken raisu, which has excessive power and an excellent flavour.

Across the finish of the Taishō interval and the start of the Shōwa interval, the present model of Japanese Rooster Rice was created. Apparently, one of many ketchup manufacturers, Kagome, put in lots of effort into advertising the present model of Rooster Rice. Kagome’s effort definitely paid off.

Rooster Rice is often known as the rice for Omurice, and my Omurice (Japanese Rice Omelette) used fried rice with tomato ketchup flavour.

What’s in My Japanese Rooster Rice (Ketchup Rooster Fried Rice)

• Rooster thigh fillets, lower into small cubes
• Finely chopped onion
• Thinly sliced mushrooms (button mushrooms or swiss brown mushrooms)
• Diced carrot
• Cooked rice (sizzling or heat)
• Oil, ideally the oil from rooster pores and skin

As a substitute of thigh fillets, you should utilize rooster breast fillets should you favor. It is going to make the rooster items barely dry although.

In case your fillet comes with pores and skin, I strongly suggest making rooster oil out of the pores and skin and utilizing it to stir-fry the substances. The rooster oil provides an additional flavour to the rice. You possibly can see my oil within the substances photograph above is brownish. See the subsequent part which incorporates making rooster oil.

Flavouring

There are a couple of seasonings concerned in including flavours to the rice, however all substances are pantry staples. Trying on the record of the Flavouring substances, you may simply inform that it’s a yōshoku (Western-style Japanese dish), can’t you?

• Tomato ketchup
• Tomato paste
• Worcestershire sauce
• Butter
• Flour
• Pink wine
• Salt

Serving (non-compulsory)

• Boiled inexperienced peas (I used frozen peas)

Rooster rice is scrumptious even with out inexperienced peas, however they may make the dish look fairly and catch individuals’s eyes, particularly kids.

So as to add a inexperienced color to the dish, you possibly can additionally add inexperienced peas, or diced inexperienced capsicum to the fried rice as a substitute.

How you can make Japanese Rooster Rice (Ketchup Rooster Fried Rice)

It’s fried rice in any case, so the method of constructing Japanese Rooster Rice follows the same steps. See the video.

Making Rooster Oil (non-compulsory)

1. Unfold a rooster pores and skin on a frying pan over low warmth.
2. Prepare dinner for a couple of minutes, turning over a few occasions. The floor of the pores and skin turns into brown.
3. When about 1 tablespoon of oil comes out, take away the pores and skin.

Making Rooster Rice

1. Sauté chopped onion in a frying pan.
2. Add the rooster and cook dinner till rooster is almost cooked.
3. Add the greens and cook dinner.
4. Add tomato ketchup, tomato paste, and Worcestershire sauce to the pan and sauté.
5. Add salt, combine, then add butter. Stir properly till the butter is totally melted.
6. Add rice to the pan and blend, guaranteeing that each rice grain turns purple. Flip the warmth off.

When mixing the rice, use a spatula in chopping movement to interrupt the lumps of rice so that you simply don’t flatten the grains.

Serving Rooster Rice

1. Put the Rooster Rice in a mould and press down on the floor of the rice.
2. Flip the mould the other way up onto a serving plate.
3. Put a number of inexperienced peas on the highest if utilizing.

A mould is usually a rice bowl and make a spherical dome-shape, or simply switch the rice with out making a form.

About Omurice Mould

Japanese Rooster Rice is usually served in a soccer form utilizing a mould. This specific form of mould is named ‘omurice mould’ as a result of the form is much like Omurice. Additionally it is known as ‘melon form mould’ as a result of similarity of the form when the melon is halved.

You need to use this mould to form not solely Rooster Rice but in addition cooked rice when serving Curry and Hayashi Rice. I purchased my omurice mould on eBay. Amazon additionally sells it.

Rooster Rice is so tasty. After I made it for the photograph and video shoot, I couldn’t cease consuming it time and again. It is extremely harmful.

Yumiko

Watch How To Make It

Japanese Rooster Rice (Ketchup Rooster Fried Rice)

Japanese Rooster Rice is a fried rice with rooster and diced greens, seasoned with tomato ketchup. It’s a standard rice dish amongst younger kids, maybe due to the vivid color and the dome-shaped presentation. The inexperienced peas within the centre additionally make the dish visually enticing. See the video.

Prepare dinner Time contains cooking the rooster pores and skin to get rooster oil out of it, which takes a couple of minutes.

Remember to see the part ‘MEAL IDEAS’ beneath the recipe card! It offers you a listing of dishes that I’ve already posted and this recipe that may make up an entire meal. I hope it’s of assist to you.

Recipe Kind:

Rice

Delicacies:

Japanese

Key phrase:

rooster rice, Japanese Fried Rice, Ketchup rice recipe

Serves: 2

Writer: Yumiko

Components (tbsp=15ml, cup=250ml)

• 300g/0.7lb
  cooked rice
  (sizzling or heat, microwave if day previous/frozen)
• 150g/5.3oz
  rooster thigh fillet
  lower into about 1.5cm/⅝” cubes (be aware 1)
• 50g/1.8oz
  onion
  finely diced
• 30g/1.1oz
  mushrooms
  (button or swiss brown), thinly sliced
• 25g/0.9oz
  carrot
  diced into 3-5mm/⅛-3⁄16″ cubes
• 1
  tbsp
  oil
  (ideally the oil from rooster pores and skin, be aware 2)

Flavouring

• ½
  tsp
  Worcestershire sauce
• 3
  tbsp
  tomato ketchup
• ½
  tsp
  tomato paste
• 10g/0.4oz
  butter
  lower into cubes
• ½
  tsp
  salt

Serving (non-compulsory)

• A
  dozen
  inexperienced peas
  (boiled, be aware 3)

Directions

Making Rooster Oil (non-compulsory)

1. Warmth a frying pan over low warmth. Unfold a rooster pores and skin on the pan and cook dinner for a couple of minutes, turning it over a few occasions.

2. When about 1 tablespoon of oil comes out, take away the pores and skin. If you cannot get sufficient oil out of the pores and skin, add oil to make as much as 1 tablespoon.

Making Rooster Rice

1. Put rooster oil (or oil) in a frying pan and warmth over medium warmth. Add onion and sauté till the onion turns into translucent.

2. Add the rooster items to the pan and sauté for a few minutes till the rooster items change color and begin browning.

3. Add carrots, sauté for a short time, then add mushrooms. Sauté till the mushrooms change into moist and wilted. Cut back the warmth to medium low.

4. Add tomato ketchup, tomato paste, and Worcestershire sauce to the pan and blend properly, guaranteeing that the rooster and vegetable items are evenly coated within the sauce.

5. Add salt and blend, then add butter. Combine properly till the butter is melted.

6. Add rice to the pan and blend. Use a chopping movement to interrupt the lumps of rice up so that every rice grain is coated within the purple sauce and there are not any white patches on the rice.

Serving Rooster Rice (be aware 4)

1. Put a half of the Rooster Rice right into a mould or a normal rice bowl. Press down on the floor of the rice gently however firmly.

2. Flip the mould/bowl the other way up onto a serving plate. Put 6 inexperienced peas on the highest if utilizing, urgent down gently in order that they keep on high.

3. Repeat for the second serving.

Recipe Notes

1. You need to use rooster breast should you favor, however the cooked rooster items might be a bit dry.

2. In case your rooster fillet got here with pores and skin on, use the pores and skin to make rooster oil (see the non-compulsory step within the directions). It provides extra flavour to the fried rice.

3. I used frozen peas.

4. I used a stainless-steel rice mould known as ‘melon form mould’ or ‘omurice mould’, which is like the form of a soccer or a melon that’s lower in half. You should buy omurice mould from eBay and Amazon.

As a substitute, you should utilize a rice bowl and make a half sphere form. You don’t want to make use of a mould to serve Japanese Rooster Rice, both.

5. Diet per serving.

serving: 319g energy: 487kcal fats: 23g (29%) saturated fats: 6.1g (31%) trans fats: 0.3g polyunsaturated fats: 3.9g monounsaturated fats: 11g ldl cholesterol: 82mg (27%) sodium: 985mg (43%) carbohydrates: 54g (20%) dietary fibre: 1.7g (6%) sugar: 7.8g protein: 18g vitamin D: 0mcg (1%) calcium: 39mg (3%) iron: 2.6mg (14%) potassium: 418mg (9%)