Omurice

Today in cooking class, we learned to make Omurice, which is basically fried rice wrapped in an omelette. Our instructor, Tomo-san made the fried rice with garlic, onions, chicken, and none other than ketchup!  I didn't realize how much the Japanese like ketchup, so I'm assuming this is a very contemporary dish!  If you like any type of rice and egg, this dish is for you!

Parboiling the daikon for the soup (side dish.)

This is the top of the daikon radish which was cooked, cooled and cut very fine to use as a garnish.  

The vegetable soup (with a chicken dashi stock) on the left, and one omelette in the process on the right.  

O.K.  This is the plain rice with butter, salt, pepper, and the main ingredient - KETCHUP!

One lady in our class kindly volunteered to make all of our omelets...

Kate is sauteing the garlic and the chicken is almost ready to go into the wok.

The onions (2 of them) were sauteed in another pan, then added to the garlic and chicken. 

Once the rice is added to the other ingredients (or vice versa) it's time to roll it all into the omelet - burrito style. 

The finished product, garnished with the cooked daikon leaves and more ketchup.  I enjoyed the rice part, but had to pick the egg away - nothing against this recipe, but I don't like eggs unless they are scrambled and have a ton of cheese in them!  ;-)