Microwave soboro don (chicken and egg rice bowl)

Name: Microwave soboro don (chicken and egg rice bowl)
Prep time: 10 min
Cook time: 5 min
Total time: 15 min
Yield: 1 servings
Cuisine: Japanese
Ingredients: 3 oz ground chicken; 1 tbsp soy sauce; 2 tsp mirin; 1 tsp sugar, divided; 1 pinch ground ginger; 2 large eggs; 1 pinch salt; ¼ cup frozen peas; 1 cup microwave rice pouches, half an 8.8 oz pouch

Sweet soy chicken crumbles, fluffy scrambled egg and green peas laid over rice in three neat stripes, the Japanese home-cooking bowl that’s as pretty as it is easy.

15 min total
10 min hands-on
Follow-a-recipe easy
Serves 1
About $2.89 a serving
540 calories
Dairy-free

Dolly says: Read the steps once before you start. Everything goes smoother after that.

Ingredients

For 1 servings.

3 oz ground chicken
2 tsp mirin
2 large eggs
¼ cup frozen peas
1 cup microwave rice pouches, half an 8.8 oz pouch

From your pantry

1 tbsp soy sauce
1 tsp sugar, divided
1 pinch ground ginger
1 pinch salt

Each serving has about 540 calories, 35 g protein, 57 g carbs and 19 g fat, and costs about $2.89 at typical US grocery prices. Both are estimates from what the recipe uses.

Missing something?

No ground chicken? Ground turkey works.
No frozen peas? Frozen mixed vegetables work.

Steps

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Stir the chicken, soy sauce, mirin, ¾ tsp of the sugar and the ginger together in a microwave-safe bowl, breaking the meat up with the fork.
Food safety: Wash your hands, the board and the knife with hot soapy water after touching raw meat, and don’t rinse raw chicken in the sink.
Cover with a paper towel and microwave 1½ minutes, then mash the chicken into fine crumbs with the fork.
Timer: 1 min 30 sec
Dolly’s tip: Soboro means fine crumbs, so keep mashing as it cooks.
Microwave 1 to 1½ minutes more, until no pink is left and most of the liquid has cooked away.
Timer: 1 min 15 sec
Food safety: Ground turkey and ground chicken are done at 165°F, with no pink left anywhere in the pan.
the eggs with the rest of the sugar and the salt in a mug.
Microwave the eggs 40 seconds, stir hard with the fork, then keep going in 20-second bursts, stirring each time, until set into small curds.
Timer: 40 sec
Food safety: For the safest eggs, cook until the whites are fully set and the yolks begin to thicken. Dishes made with eggs are done at 160°F.
Microwave the peas in a covered mug with of water for 1 minute.
Timer: 1 min
Heat the rice in its pouch as the package says, usually 90 seconds, and put half in a bowl.
Timer: 1 min 30 sec
Arrange the chicken, egg and peas over the rice in three stripes, and mix it together as you eat.
Dolly’s tip: Stripes are traditional and look lovely, but it tastes just as good stirred up.