Kinoko-Tamago-Yaki (Shrimp Omelette)

Origin: Chicago, Illinois

Source: Sara Bosse and Onoto Watanna (Winnifred Eaton), 1914

Ingredients

Instructions

  1. Beat the eggs together with half a cupful of syou sauce.
  2. Have four or five small frying pans ready and heat them.
  3. Wipe each hot pan with paper soaked in goma-seed oil.
  4. Pour an equal quantity of the egg mixture into each pan.
  5. Quickly scatter the finely chopped shrimp meat into each pan, dividing it evenly.
  6. Fry slowly for four minutes.
  7. To brown both sides at once as the Japanese do, place burning charcoal in a tin plate and lay it on top of the omelette on the stove.
  8. Serve very hot in special omelette dishes.

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