Meera Sodha’s Recipe For Japanese Curry Rice With Soy-marinated Yolk | Meera Sodha Recipes

Back successful 2020, I put immoderate curry cubes successful my hubby Hugh’s Christmas stocking, and our life (particularly his) was cleaved successful two: earlier curry cubes, and after. He took them camping and connected cycling trips, and he raved astir them to friends. Slowly, they became a pantry staple for us. When I person nan time, I for illustration to batch-cook my ain curry condiment and frost it, but erstwhile location isn’t time, we emotion this meal. It feels embarrassingly easy to make, because nan cubes bring each nan flavour, and besides rather fancy astatine nan aforesaid clip acknowledgment to nan ovum yolk. We emotion it, and I dream you will, too.

Japanese curry atom pinch soy-marinated ovum yolk

If you want to make this vegan, conscionable driblet nan egg. The astir readily disposable marque of curry cubes, S&B Golden Curry, uses RSPO-certified sustainable thenar lipid successful its products, but, if you’re keen to debar nan stuff, I’d urge Emma Basic. Don’t propulsion retired nan ovum whites; zip-lock them and prevention successful nan fridge aliases freezer to make a meringue.

Prep 15 min
Cook 45 min
Serves 4

4 tbsp ray soy sauce, positive 1 tbsp extra
4 tbsp mirin
4 ovum yolks (optional)
350g short-grain rice
½ tsp salt
4 tbsp rapeseed oil
1 brownish onion, peeled and sliced
150g shiitake mushrooms, sliced
2 carrots (200g), peeled and finely diced
300g greenish beans, trim into 1½cm pieces
4 mild Japanese curry cubes, finely chopped
10g caller chives, very finely chopped

In a mini bowl, operation nan 4 tablespoons of ray soy condiment pinch nan mirin, past mildly little successful nan ovum yolks and time off to marinate.

Put nan atom successful a saucepan pinch 490ml acold water, adhd nan salt, screen and bring to a boil. Turn down nan power to a simmer, time off to navigator for 10 minutes, past return disconnected nan power and group aside, still covered.

Meanwhile, successful a ample frying cookware for which you person a lid, power nan lipid connected a mean to precocious occurrence and, erstwhile it’s hot, adhd nan bulb and cook, stirring, for 5 minutes, until soft. Add nan mushrooms, navigator for different 5 minutes, still stirring, past adhd nan carrots, nan other tablespoonful of ray soy condiment and 5 tablespoons of water. Cover and navigator for 5 minutes more. Add nan beans, screen again and navigator for 4 minutes. Stir done nan curry cubes until they melt, past scoop nan cooked atom into nan cookware (I find a spaghetti spoon useful for this). Cook, stirring, for different six to 8 minutes, past return disconnected nan heat.

Spoon a 4th of nan atom into a bowl, battalion it down, past invert connected to a plate. Repeat pinch nan remaining rice. Use nan backmost of a spoon to make an indent successful nan apical of each mound of rice, then, moving 1 by one, assistance nan ovum yolks from their marinade and spot 1 connected apical of each information of rice. Finish pinch a generous sprinkling of chives and serve.

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