Lunch · 25 min · japanese

Soboro Don

A Japanese lunch built around ground chicken and eggs — on the table in 25 minutes. At 560 calories and 36g protein per serving, it fits easily into a high-protein day. It scales cleanly if you are cooking for more than one.

✓ USDA-verified nutrition data

Ingredients

• 1 lb Ground chicken
• 4 Eggs
• 0.5 cup Green peas
• 3 cups Rice
• 3 tbsp Soy sauce
• 2 tbsp Mirin
• 2 tbsp Sugar
• 1 tbsp Sake
• 1 tbsp Fresh ginger
• 2 tbsp Pickled ginger

Steps

1. Simmer the chicken with soy, mirin, sugar, sake, and ginger, stirring constantly with chopsticks to break it into the finest crumbles — soboro means crumbled. Cook until the liquid evaporates.
2. Scramble the eggs with a pinch of sugar and salt into fine, fluffy curds, breaking them small.
3. Blanch the peas 2 minutes until bright green.
4. Mound hot rice in bowls and top with three neat stripes: chicken soboro, egg soboro, and peas. The tricolor bowl should look like a flag.
5. Garnish with pickled ginger. Simple, pretty, and endlessly packable — the bento champion.

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