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Japanese recipe tamago sando, egg sandwich

Japanese recipe tamago sando, egg sandwich

Sophie and François
Easily make this famous Japanese egg sandwich very popular in Japan
Prep Time 10 minutes
Cook Time 6 minutes
Total Time 16 minutes
Course Main Course
Cuisine Japanese
Servings 1 people

Equipment

  • 1 pan
  • Transparent food paper

Ingredients
  

  • 2 soft, thick slices of bread
  • 1 egg
  • 5 g of salted butter

Seasoning

  • 1 pinch of sugar
  • 1 pinch salt and pepper
  • 1 tbsp of Kewpie mayonnaise
  • 1 tsp of milk

Instructions
 

Cooking of the egg and its preparation

  • Prepare a bowl of very cold water.
    Bring water to a boil in a saucepan. Place your egg in a soup spoon and drop it gently into the boiling water. Cook for 7 minutes if you took your egg out of the fridge, otherwise 6 minutes 30 sec if it did not come out of the fridge.
    Japanese recipe tamago sando, egg sandwich
  • Take it out of the water and immediately put it back into cold water. Break the shell slightly in the water.
    Japanese recipe tamago sando, egg sandwich
  • Wait 10 minutes in the water before scaling.
    Japanese recipe tamago sando, egg sandwich
  • Cut your egg in half and remove the yolk.
    Japanese recipe tamago sando, egg sandwich yolk
  • Finely chop the whites with a knife.
    Japanese recipe tamago sando, egg sandwich
  • Put the yolks in a bowl and mash them with a fork. Add sugar, salt and pepper, mayonnaise and milk.
    Japanese recipe tamago sando, egg sandwich
  • Mix well until evenly blended.
    Japanese recipe tamago sando, egg sandwich

Preparation of the Japanese sandwich

  • Lay out some transparent cling film on your work surface. Put your sandwich loaves on it and apply butter. Then place your egg mixture in the center on a piece of bread and leave a margin of about 1 cm on the sides. Feel free to make a small mountain.
    Japanese recipe tamago sando, egg sandwich
  • Place the other piece of bread on top, then wrap tightly with cling film and place in refrigerator for 20 minutes.
    Japanese recipe tamago sando, egg sandwich
  • Remove your cling film, cut the crusts with a knife, and cut them in 2. Ready!
    Japanese recipe tamago sando, egg sandwich