| Oyakodon | |
| Type: | Donburi |
| Country: | Japan |
| Creator: | Tamahide |
| Year: | 1891 |
| Main Ingredient: | Chicken, egg, and sliced scallion |
| Minor Ingredient: | Soy sauce and stock |
| Variations: | Tanindon |
| Serving Size: | 100 g |
| No Recipes: | false |
, literally "parent-and-child donburi", is a donburi, or Japanese rice bowl dish, in which chicken, egg, sliced scallion (or sometimes regular onions), and other ingredients are all simmered together in a kind of soup that is made with soy sauce and stock, and then served on top of a large bowl of rice. The name of the dish is a poetic reflection of both chicken and egg being used in the dish.[1]
The origins of the dish are unknown. The earliest written mention of the terms "oyako" and "don" in combination is in a newspaper advertisement for a restaurant in Kobe in 1884. The advertisement mentions dishes named oyakojōdon, oyakonamidon and oyakochūdon, possibly referring to different sizes.[2]
Several other Japanese dishes pun on the parent-and-child theme of oyakodon., literally "stranger bowl",[3] is otherwise identical but replaces the chicken with beef or pork. A dish of salmon and salmon roe served raw over rice is known as (salmon parent-child donburi).