Easy family project
Ingredients:
4 eggs
1 teaspoon of soy sauce
1-2 tablespoons of Mirin (rice wine), Sake, or Maple Syrup
Butter or oil
Cooking Utensils:
Mixing bowl, spatula, or chopsticks for rolling the omelet
frying pan (square Japanese frying pan or small round pan)
Let the eggs sit at room temperature for 20-30 minutes because warmer eggs whip up to a greater volume. Cold eggs hitting a hot pan will produce a tough omelet. Do not salt the raw eggs as that will toughen them, too.
Mix the eggs with soy sauce and Mirin, or Sake or Maple syrup.
Get the frying pan hot and add little butter or oil. When the pan is hot, pour or ladle in a thin layer of the egg mixture. Regulate the temperature (probably to medium heat), so the eggs are cooking but not burning.

When the edges looked cooked but not too brown, gently lift the omelet with a spatula and roll it to one end. Add more oil or butter all over the pan, making sure that even under the rolled-up omelet, there is grease added.
If you have any questions, please contact me at mborn@kckpl.org
Magda Born
Community Services Librarian
Kansas City, Kansas Public Library
625 Minnesota Ave.
Kansas City, KS 66101
913-295-8250 ext 1103
Japanese Tamago Sushi Omelet
Equipment
- 1 mixing bowl
- 1 spatula or chopsticks
- 1 frying pan square or small round
Ingredients
- 4 eggs
- 1-2 tbs mirin (rice wine), sake, or maple syrup
- 1 tsp soy sauce
- butter or oil
Instructions
- Let the eggs sit at room temperature for 20-30 minutes because warmer eggs whip up to a greater volume. Cold eggs hitting a hot pan will produce a tough omelet. Do not salt the raw eggs as that will toughen them, too.
- Mix the eggs with soy sauce and Mirin, or Sake or Maple syrup.
- Get the frying pan hot and add little butter or oil. When the pan is hot, pour or ladle in a thin layer of the egg mixture. Regulate the temperature (probably to medium heat), so the eggs are cooking but not burning.
- When the edges looked cooked but not too brown, gently lift the omelet with a spatula and roll it to one end. Add more oil or butter all over the pan, making sure that even under the rolled-up omelet, there is grease added.
Very interesting! Will need to try this one.