Comfort Food Japanese Style

Do you have a favorite meal that just makes you feel happy as soon as you think about eating it? As an American standard comfort foods are Pizza, Mac n Cheese, Chicken Soup, Cookies and Ice Cream, and so on. I promise I love all of those things, but today I just needed Japanese breakfast. I'm sure once you give it a try you'll decide that it's comfort food for you too. 

Eggs and Rice❤️

Ingredients:

1/2 C cooked short grain rice

1t sesame oil

1 egg

1t Natto

1 pinch Dried fish flakes (optional)

Bell peppers or veggie of your choice

Bulldog sauce

Kewpie mayonnaise

Instructions:

1. Preheat your frying pan over medium low heat and add sesame oil. When oil is fragrant add your egg. 

2. Remove sauce packets and plastic from natto package and defrost in microwave for 40sec. Mix contents of sauce packets into natto. 

3. Flip your egg and add your veggies to your frying pan. 

4. Put cooked rice into your bowl and top with furikake and fish flakes. Pour some bulldog sauce and some kewpie mayo over your rice. 

5. Remove egg from frying pan to bowl and stir. Place some natto next to the egg and scoop veggies into your bowl. 

6. Eat!! 
 

So you're probably wondering where to get all these exotic ingredients. Short answer is your local Asian market. Just make a list, take it with you and find the first person who works there to guide you to all of your tasty ingredients. I promise they're very common. 

Bulldog Sauce on the left is like Japan's answer to America's ketchup and it's versatility will blow you away. Kewpie mayonnaise is slightly different from what you're used to but it's worth a try and you may even discover that it's amazing on a BLT. 

Next, and totally valid, question is what on earth is Natto, right? Well, this is Natto. Fermented soy beans. They are beautiful, and sticky, and full of iron, and they act as a blood thinner as well so don't eat two packages at one time. Space it out, your body and your mouth will thank you. 

Furikake is like seasoning for rice. It comes in a wide variety of flavors but today I used the black sesame and sugar flavor. Fish flakes come in MANY different textures. My personal favorite is this one here that curls in delicate ultra thin beauty as soon as it's placed on steaming food. Yum! 
 

Can you smell the fragrant sesame oil and gently spicy bell pepper frying away with the egg? It's really one of my favorite smells ever. 

Enjoy your big delicious bowl of comfort food immediately. Seriously, do not let it get cold and eat all of it. The egg yolk and the natto mix into the rice with the mayo and create this creamy savory bliss that is incomparable. I hope you enjoy this meal as much as I do!