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3 large free-range organic eggs
3 tablespoons Dashi
2 teaspoons of fine sugar
1 teaspoon soya
1 teaspoon mirin
2 pinches of salt
2 tablespoons sunflower oil, to grease
Good to have but not essential
a rectangle shaped frying pan
a wooden sushi roll mat
A little mini monster told us of her favorite breakfast, Tamagoyaki. Her auntie A. has already become a real pro at it, so we used some of her brilliant photos. So you know what Tamagoyaki looks like when you succeed very well!
Tamagoyaki is a Japanese omelet that is fried in 6 layers, in a rectangular pan. Of course we would like to try it, although we know already the first tries usually fail. Of course we continue to practice, because if the omelet turns out right it is very tasty and you can vary with fillings endlessly!
How to make Tamagoyaki
This is a tamagoyaki pan, but a round one is also fine.
Whisk the eggs briefly, or zig zag using chop sticks.
Mix the Dashi with sugar, soy, mirin and salt, mix it well.
Stir the Dashi mixture briefly into the eggs, until well combined.
Dip a folded piece of kitchen paper into the oil, use it to grease the pan, use it after every adddition
Pour the egg mixture into a measuring cup with a spout to pour thin layers into the pan,
Start rolling the omelette when the unsrside is dry but it's still moist on top .
Grease the pan, pour in a new layer of egg, let it run underneath the roll.
Keep repeatin pouring & rolling until you've rolled up six layers,
Remember to grease the pan every time you add a layer, even under the rolled up layers!
- Below you see the pictures of Auntie A.'s delicious Tamagoyaki!
- She leaves out the Soy Sauce, Mirin and Dashi, because the little monsters do not like the taste
- Whitout these 3 ingredients the whole Tamagoyaki omelette disappeares in a minute!
At the fifth layer you have a little log already.
At layer six you have a tree log!
Hopefully your Tamagoyaki will look like these.
To make your Tamagoyaki extra pretty you roll it in a sushi mat.
Leave rolled up for 5 minutes, cut the Tamagoyaki into thick slices.
The last picture if of our Tamagoyaki version, we keep practicing and we'll hopefully can show you later how to make a perfect Tamagoyaki. You can fill the Tamagoyaki with all sorts of good stuff, like fresh fish, ham or bacon, veg, fruit, or cheese, so see you later!