Omu Rice (Japanese Omelette Rice)

I always love this dish, one of mostly chosen everytime I visited now closed down Shokudo in Raffles City, I'm one of the disappointed regular customer :(

Decided to give it a try after found the recipe that looks worth trying, it's indeed yummy, but I gotta train myself more to shape it more nicely, mine looked too skinny and flat, it should have been more 'rounder' LOL

Recipe is from Gourmet Traveller with some adjustment I made to suit my family preference

What you need:

(serves 1)

1 cup cooked cold rice

2 eggs, beaten
2-3 slices ham, chopped
4 button mushrooms, sliced
1/2 small carrot (about 2 tbsp), small dice
1/2 onion (about 2 tbsp), chopped

corn kernels from 1 corn

2 cloves of garlic, minced
1 tsp soy sauce
1 tbsp tomato ketchup (plus more to serve)

1/2 tsp chicken stock powder

salt, pepper, canola oil, garlic oil

1. Heat a mixture of canola oil and garlic oil in a wok or large frying pan over a medium heat
2. Throw in the onion and garlic and sauté til fragrant
3. Add in ham, mushrooms and carrots and stir-fry until slightly coloured and fragrant
4. Add in corn kernels, stir well
5. Season with a little salt and pepper, also chicken stock powder, then add in the cold rice
6. Drizzle over the soy sauce and cook for a further couple of minutes, stirring well to combine
7. Add ketchup and stir again making sure the rice is heated through.
8. If it's too dry, drizzle abit more garlic oil. Keep warm
9. In a separate medium frying pan heat the remaining oil on a high heat
10. Pour in the beaten eggs and coat the entire pan to make a large thin egg crêpe
11. When the egg in the middle is almost set, spoon the fried rice into the center and fold both sides of the crêpe over to form an omelette (this part I need more practice wew...)
12. Carefully invert the omelette onto a plate (this part too LOL)
13. Serve immediately with more ketchup on the side, and bottled chilli sauce for my case :)

The next time I make this very tasty dish again, a slab of chicken katsu would be nice :)