Tuesday, 4 October 2022

Cooking Mama's Cooking Challenge #67: Pork Rice Bowl

Oh god this one looks so complicated! Its like a final exam! Deep fried pork, rice, sautee'd onions, stewed sauce, AND an omelette all rolled into one!? Sure you dont want me to grill something as well?

Tenderize the meat!

Neighbours love this one. Random bit of hammering at 6pm.

Remove tendon!

I don't think these cuts really have tendons to remove...

Coat various foods!

Going to try and minimise washing up on this one, so flouring it up straight in the packaging. Risky I know.

Roll in the coating!

Ran out of panko so itll have to be german style breadcrumbs. they're still really good for frying, just not as flaky.

Deep fry!

Honestly bare lazy of me that I didnt want to get my fryer back out, but also the fryer is a bit small for these (but also im going to reuse the pan HEHE)

Slice up!

YEP they are cooked through, very important let ME tell YOU

Chop up!

Half an onion sliced into thin strips

Make stock!

Now we make a weird sauce with dashi stock, sugar, sake, mirin, and soy sauce.

Break an egg!

Mama actually makes you break FOUR eggs for this!!! but that seems like so much! Maybe its for all 4 cutlets but im just going to do 1 full donburi right now because i dont wanna be here till 11pm. 1 egg it is.

Beat an egg!

1 egg it was

Fry the ingredients!

Ok now this is where I had to look it up because it ain't clear in the game... You fry the onion, then you pour in the stock, then you place the sliced pork, then you pour the egg over the top!  Oh btw hope you remembered to make a bowl of boiled rice on the side!! You remembered right? (I did)

Finish!

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I kind of don't get why so much effort to make this elaborate rice topping thats just an ugly-ass mess. Does it taste good though? Well yeah it does. Hard to go wrong with fried cutlet, omelet, fried onion, and rice with a standard japanese sauce. But I feel like if you didn't do the whole one-pan onion/sauce/pork/egg thing you could cook several meals more efficiently AND get a nicer presentation.

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