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Donburi (丼, lit. "bowl", also frequently abbreviated as "don", thus less commonly spelled "domburi") is a Japanese "rice bowl dish" consisting of fish, meat, vegetables or other ingredients simmered together and served over rice. Donburi meals are served in oversized rice bowls also called donburi. Donburi are sometimes called sweetened or savory stews on rice. Image File history File links This is a lossless scalable vector image. ... A giant grouper at the Georgia Aquarium Fish are aquatic vertebrates that are typically cold-blooded, covered with scales, and equipped with two sets of paired fins and several unpaired fins. ... Kinnikuman character, see Meat Alexandria. ... A plate of vegetables Vegetable is a culinary term which generally refers to an edible part of a plant. ... Simmering is a cooking technique in which foods are cooked in hot liquids kept at or just barely below the boiling point of water (at average sea level air pressure), 100 °C (212 °F). ... This article needs additional references or sources for verification. ... A salad in a bowl sits next to a small pie in a pie dish Chawan, drinking bowls used in a Japanese tea ceremony Bowls used as construction tools in contemporary India. ... Beef Stew A stew is a common dish made of vegetables (particularly potatoes or beans), meat, poultry, or seafood cooked in some sort of broth or sauce. ...

The simmering sauce varies according to season, ingredient, region, and taste. A typical sauce might consist of dashi flavored with shoyu and mirin. Proportions vary, but there is normally three to four times as much dashi as shoyu and mirin. For oyakodon, Tsuji (1980) recommends dashi flavored with light soy sauce, dark soy sauce, and sugar. For gyudon, Tsuji recommends water flavored with dark soy sauce and mirin. Dashi (出汁) is one of several simple soup stocks considered fundamental to Japanese cooking. ... Soy sauce (US) or soya sauce is a fermented sauce made from soybeans (soya beans), roasted grain, water and salt. ... Mirin (kanji: 味醂; hiragana: みりん) is an essential condiment used in Japanese cuisine, with a slightly sweet taste. ... Oyakodon Oyakodon ), literally parent-and-child donburi, is a Japanese donburi, or rice bowl dish, in which chicken, egg, green onion, and other ingredients are all simmered together in a sauce and then served on top of a large bowl of rice. ... Drivein Gyudon (at Honshu Shikoku contact bridge, Awaji service area) Sukiya is a major gyudon chain in Japan. ...

Variety of donburi

Traditional Japanese donburi include the follows.

• Tamagodon (玉子丼) a scrambled egg mixed with sweet donburi sauce on rice
• Oyakodon(親子丼):simmered chicken, egg and onion on rice
• Katsudon(カツ丼):breaded deep-fried pork cutlets (tonkatsu), onion, and egg on rice)
• Tenshindon (天津丼) a Chinese-Japanese specialty, consisting of a crabmeat omelet on rice, named for Tianjin, China
• Tekkadon (鉄火丼):thin-sliced raw tuna over rice. Spicy tekkadon is made with what can be a mix of spicy ingredients, a spicy orange sauce, or both (usually incorporates spring onions.)
• Negitorodon (ネギトロ丼): diced toro (fatty tuna) and negi (spring onions) on rice
• Tendon (天丼):tempura shrimp and vegetables on rice
• Gyūdon(牛丼):beef and onion on rice
• Unadon (鰻丼):unagi kabayaki (grilled eel) on rice

Donburi can be made from almost any ingredients,however, including left-overs. Inexpensive Chinese restaurants in Japan often serve chūkadon (中華丼) or gomoku-chukadon (五目中華丼) —stir-fried assorted vegetables with some meat over rice in a big bowl. Not traditionally Japanese or Chinese, the hybrid dish indicates the popularity of donburi in Japan. Oyakodon Oyakodon ), literally parent-and-child donburi, is a Japanese donburi, or rice bowl dish, in which chicken, egg, green onion, and other ingredients are all simmered together in a sauce and then served on top of a large bowl of rice. ... This article or section does not adequately cite its references or sources. ... Binomial name L. Many plants in the genus Allium are known by the common name onion but, used without qualifiers, it usually refers to Allium cepa. ... A typical serving at a Japanese restaurant A katsudon (カツ丼) is a popular Japanese food; it is a bowl of rice topped with a deep-fried pork cutlet, egg, and condiments. ... Two halves of pork being delivered Pork is the culinary name for meat from pigs. ... Typical Japanese Tonkatsu, served in Seoul, Korea. ... An Omelette or omelet is a preparation of beaten egg cooked with butter or oil in a frying pan, often folded around a filling. ...   (Chinese: ; pinyin: TiānjÄ«n; Postal map spelling: Tientsin) is one of the four municipalities of the Peoples Republic of China. ... Tekkadon(鉄火丼) is a rice bowl topped with tuna and salmon sashimi. ... Toro may refer to: Toro (company), an American manufacturer of lawn mowers and other lawn equipment. ... Binomial name Allium fistulosum Linnaeus Allium fistulosum L., widely known as the Welsh onion, is a member of the onion family, Alliaceae. ... Tendon can refer to: A tendon or sinew is a part of a structure or system that provides support and holds it together Tendon, Vosges, a commune in the Vosges département in France Tendon, an abbreviation for Tenpura-Donburi A tenon is often misspelled or mispronounced as tendon. A... Tempura Tempura Ice Cream Tempura (Japanese: てんぷら or 天麩羅, tenpura) refers to classic Japanese deep fried batter-dipped seafood and vegetables. ... Superfamilies Alpheoidea Atyoidea Bresilioidea Campylonotoidea Crangonoidea Galatheacaridoidea Nematocarcinoidea Oplophoroidea Palaemonoidea Pandaloidea Pasiphaeoidea Procaridoidea Processoidea Psalidopodoidea Stylodactyloidea True shrimp are swimming, decapod crustaceans classified in the infraorder Caridea, found widely around the world in both fresh and salt water. ... Drivein Gyudon (at Honshu Shikoku contact bridge, Awaji service area) Sukiya is a major gyudon chain in Japan. ... For other uses, see Beef (disambiguation). ... Unadon Unajuu An Unadon (鰻丼 lit. ... A kabayaki-don (una-don), Japanese unagi cuisine Unagi (うなぎ) is the Japanese word for freshwater eels, especially the Japanese eel, Anguilla japonica. ... Kabayaki ) is a generic Japanese term for a dish of seafood which is filleted, boned and dipped in a sweet soy sauce-base sauce before broiled on a grill. ... ChÅ«kadon ChÅ«kadon(中華丼) is a popular Japanese fast food dish. ...

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Home-made

A simple home-made donburi meal might be made by sautéing onions until cooked and then adding simmering sauce, bite-sized pieces of chicken (or meat or tofu or other main ingredient) and simmering until all is cooked. One or two lightly beaten eggs and sliced scallion are added and all is simmered until the eggs are nearly cooked (edges set). The nearly set egg and meat concoction together with the nearly boiled away donburi simmering sauce are poured on top of hot rice in a donburi bowl. Served hot and eaten with chopsticks. Sautéing is a method of cooking food using a small amount of fat in a shallow pan over relatively high heat. ... Tofu (the Japanese Romaji spelling), also called doufu (the Chinese Pinyin spelling often used in Chinese recipes) or bean curd (the literal translation), is a food of Chinese origin[1], made by coagulating soy milk, and then pressing the resulting curds into blocks. ... Chopped spring onion The common name scallion(Or Don Patch sword as on Bobobo) is associated with various members of the genus Allium that lack a fully-developed bulb. ... Hashi redirects here. ...

See also

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References

• Tsuji, Shizuo. (1980). Japanese cooking: A simple art. Kodansha International/USA, New York.