Lunch Box 3

Opps. Its another Lunch Box post. :P Im cooking fried rice today and thought it will be a good lunch box idea.

This is a rather common lunch box, omu-rice . Its basically egg over rice. I believe the authenic way is to have the rice wrapped in the egg. I wouldnt want to go through the haste of doing that for 2 reasons. It needs more eggs and the kids wont appreciate the effort of doing it. They will just cut the egg and eat it whichever way I do it. :P

So, heres my simple version of omu-rice . Im not using over-night rice hence the rice is a bit more moist but we prefer it that way. Its softer. All the ingredients are my sons favourite except for the hon-shimeiji. ;) You decide what you want in your rice

To have the egg cover the rice, you first cook the egg. Have slight over half an egg hanging out the lunch box. Adjust the remaining to fitting nicely in the box. Spoon the fried rice into the box sitting on the egg. Flip the rest of the egg over then use a spoon to gently push the edge of the egg to the sides to tuck them in. And there you have it. :)