Ingredients

  • 1 1/2 rice cooker cups Rice
  • 1/2 Onion
  • 1/3 Carrot
  • 1 Bell pepper
  • 150 grams Chicken thigh meat
  • 1 dash Seasoned salt and pepper
  • 4 tbsp A. Ketchup
  • 1/2 tsp A. Soup stock powder
  • 10 grams Butter
  • 2 large Eggs
  • 1 tbsp Milk
  • 1 dash Salt
  • 1 Vegetable oil

Method

  • Please refer tofor tips on how to make the thin omelette (usuyaki tamago).
  • Cut up the onion, carrot, bell pepper and chicken into 1 cm dice.
  • Season the chicken with a little seasoned salt and pepper and let rest.
  • Rinse the rice and leave to absorb water for 30 minutes.
  • Put the A ingredients, rice, cut up vegetables except for the bell pepper and chicken in the rice cooker bowl, with about 80% of the water you'd usually add.
  • Cut up the butter into small pieces and add to the bowl.
  • Switch on the rice cooker
  • When the rice has cooked, mix in the bell pepper and leave to steam for 5 minutes.
  • In the meantime, mix the ingredients together and make the thin omelette.
  • Transfer the rice to a serving plate and form a heart shape.
  • Cut a 3 cm long slit into the omelette at the top, and wrap the rice.
  • Add a little ketchup heart, or any message conveying your love to finish of the omurice.
  • How to form the heart - method 1: Pack the rice into two round cups, and unmold them on a plate side by side.
  • The two unmolded rice rounds already look like a heart.
  • Press down on the top of each mound a bit with a spatula, and form the bottom part into a point.
  • How to form the heart - method 2: Staple two strips of cardboard together to make a heart shaped mold.
  • Line the inside of this instant mold with a sheet of plastic wrap, and stuff the rice inside.
  • Press lightly from the top.
  • Invert a plate on top of the heart, and hold the heart on the plate and flip over.