Meals with rice, eggs, and soy sauce
Rice, eggs, and soy sauce is a complete meal framework that works across dozens of dishes.
These three pantry staples produce something genuinely satisfying in under 15 minutes.
Easy meal ideas
Egg fried rice with soy
Fry day-old rice in hot oil, push aside and scramble eggs, combine with soy sauce.
Soy butter rice with fried egg
Mix hot rice with butter and soy sauce, top with a crispy fried egg.
Soy-marinated soft egg over rice
Soft-boil eggs 7 min, marinate in soy + mirin + water, serve halved over rice.
Scrambled egg rice bowl
Soft-scramble eggs, season with soy sauce, spoon over warm rice.
How to stretch these ingredients
- Day-old rice makes much better fried rice than freshly cooked
- Sesame oil at the end is the difference-maker
- A tiny bit of sugar mixed with soy sauce makes the flavor rounder
- Garlic fried before adding rice makes this much better
- Green onion on top is a simple garnish that adds a lot