Tornado Omelet Rice with Meat Sauce 肉醬旋風蛋包飯

Tornado Omelet Rice with Meat Sauce 肉醬旋風蛋包飯 (ròu jìang xúan fēng dàn bāo fàn) is Omurice in Korean and Omuraisu in Japanese.  It was first seen in the western restaurants in South Korea and Japan in the 1970’s.  I don’t believe there is a clear origin, but you can find this dish all over the world.

Even though my son is now 12 years old, I’m still finding ways to make his food interesting.  I find that he has a better appetite when he likes the presentation.  But of course, it has to taste good too!  The first time I made this, I messed up the egg.  So I covered the broken part of the egg with the meat sauce. I told him that this is a Volcano Omelet Rice!  And then when the egg didn’t break, I called it the Tornado Omelet Rice…..he thought it was so cool!

Whether it’s a tornado or volcano, this is a great dish that’s guaranteed to impress your family.  It’s healthy and easy too!  It’s also something that you can whip up depending on what’s in your pantry.  You could easily convert leftovers or canned soup into the sauce to accompany the omelet rice.

I made this dish using left-over butter chicken once and my son loved it.  Try draping the egg over fried rice and then add ketchup and Japanese mayo on top.  Or, you could just do a sunny-side-up egg on top and it becomes a Hong Kong Café dish, Minced Beef and Egg on Rice. There are unlimited possibilities to change it up with this dish. 

I serve this Tornado Omelet Rice with Meat Sauce 肉醬旋風蛋包飯 dish with a specialty Hong Kong drink…Horlick and Ovaltine Milk (for quick history lesson of these two delicious drinks, check it out here).  Which is just 1 heaping tablespoon of Horlick, 1 heaping tablespoon of Ovaltine, 2 teaspoons sugar, 3 tablespoons evaporated milk and 250ml hot water. Yummmmm! For more drink options, try my Hong Kong Milk Tea 港式奶茶 or Hong Kong Lemon Tea 港式檸檬茶.

Tornado Omelet Rice with Meat Sauce 肉醬旋風蛋包飯

The Tornado Omelet Rice 旋風蛋包飯is very popular in Asia. I usually make mine with meat sauce because it’s easy, tasty and nutritious.

Are you worried that your egg won’t turn out? When that happens, I just call it a Volcano Omelet Rice…still a natural disaster! Just put some of the sauce on top of the egg like lava. Kids love it!

Some alternative ideas:

• use a curry sauce. Japanese curry works great

• a creamy mushroom sauce with diced chicken or bacon

• add a can of beef stew if time is limited

• chili con carne

• teriyaki sauce

• Mapo tofu (check out my recipe)

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Prep Time 5 minutes mins

Cook Time 20 minutes mins

Course Main Course

Cuisine Chinese

Servings 2 servings

Calories 985 kcal

Ingredients

  

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• 2 cups Cooked rice
• 300 g Ground beef
• 156 ml Tomato paste one small can
• 1 Medium onion diced
• 1 cup Cherry tomatoes cut into halves
• 4 Eggs
• 1 tsp Light soy sauce
• 1 tsp Sugar for marinade
• 1 tsp Corn starch
• 1 tsp Oil for marinade
• 200 ml Water
• 2 tsp Sugar for sauce
• ½ tsp Salt for sauce
• 1 tbsp Oil for frying ground beef
• 1 tbsp Oil for frying eggs
• 1 tsp Chopped parsley

Instructions

 

Instructions for the meat sauce:

• Cook rice Rice should be hot when ready to plate
• Marinate ground beef with 1 tsp light soy sauce, 1 tsp sugar and 1 tsp corn starch. Mix well and add 1 tsp oil. Mix well again and set aside
  
• Dice onion and set aside
  
• Cut tomatoes and set aside
• Chop the parsley and set aside
• Turn heat to medium-high. Add 1 tbsp of oil and brown the ground beef. Cook for about 2 minutes or until the beef is approximately 50% cooked and remove the beef. Leave the oil in the pan
  
• Using the same pan, put in the diced onions. Stir-fry until it’s aromatic
  
• Add the tomato paste. Cook it together for 1 minute and add 2 tsp sugar and ½ tsp salt. Mix well
  
• Add 200ml of water to the sauce and bring the sauce to a boil
• Reduce the heat to low. Add the ground beef and cherry tomatoes. Let it simmer for 15 minutes
• To thicken the meat sauce, combine 1 tsp of corn starch with 2 tbsp water. Mix well and pour into the sauce and mix well again the thickness of the meat sauce depends on the water content of the tomatoes. If you think the sauce is thick enough, then you can skip this step
• Turn off heat and set aside
• Pack a bowl with 1 cup of cooked rice. Place the bowl upside down on a plate and then remove the bowl. Repeat for the second serving. Make the tornado egg
  

Instructions for the tornado egg (read all the steps before starting. Steps 2 and 3 need to be done in a fairly fast speed:

• Crack and beat 2 eggs
• In a non-stick pan, add 1 tbsp oil, pour the beaten eggs and when the egg is starting to cook, swirl the egg around to form a large circle
  
• Use a pair of chopsticks and gather 2 opposite sides of the egg together with the chopsticks ending up being 1” apart. It will have the shape of a bow-tie
  
• Do not remove the chopsticks from the egg and gently spin the chopsticks so that egg is also spinning to make it into a circle shape. Use the edge of the pan to help shape the egg
  
• Once the egg is cooked, slide it onto the rice
  
• Spoon the meat sauce around the rice and egg If the egg doesn’t look nice, then put some meat sauce on top of the egg to replicate an erupting volcano
  
• Repeat for the second serving
• Add chopped parsley and serve

Nutrition

Calories: 985kcalCarbohydrates: 75gProtein: 46gFat: 56gSaturated Fat: 16gCholesterol: 434mgSodium: 1608mgPotassium: 1615mgFiber: 5gSugar: 20gVitamin A: 2029IUVitamin C: 38mgCalcium: 141mgIron: 8mg

Keyword Beef, Fried Rice, Meat Sauce, Omelet

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