Claypot Rice with Beef & Egg

I’m in love with claypot rice, with its smokey flavour and crispy rice crust at the bottom of the claypot. I ate a tasty beef claypot rice topped with raw egg (窩蛋牛肉煲仔飯) in Hong Kong and fell in love with this dish. My version is a homely and easy take on what I ate.

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Since beef cooks quickly, this is a simple and fast recipe – you just need to cook the rice in the claypot, then top it with marinaded beef and an egg. You can enjoy it as a one-pot meal, or serve it with a side dish of oyster sauce vegetables. If you love claypot cooking, check out this article on claypot cooking care and the collection of claypot recipes.

Beef Claypot Rice Recipe

Pictured above are the various stages of cooking beef claypot rice. When the claypot rice is cooked, the dish does not look too appealing with the whole lump of beef on top of the rice, but once you break the runny yolk and mix things up with a spoon, everything comes together like magic in terms of both aesthetics and flavour.

Beef Claypot Rice Recipe

Beef Claypot Rice

In this recipe, the egg is cooked but still runny. If you don’t mind raw egg, add the egg when serving (while the claypot is fresh off the stove and still hot) instead of adding it at step 4.

If you do not intend to drizzle dark soy sauce over the cooked mixed rice, add an additional 1/2 tsp light soy sauce to marinade (A).

Ingredients:

  • 120 grams minced beef
  • 1 egg
  • 1  tbsp + 1/2 tbsp sesame oil (or regular vegetable/olive oil)
  • 1 cup long grain white rice rinsed and drained
  • 1 cup water
  • 2 tbsp chopped spring onions
  • 1/2 tbsp dark soy sauce to taste

(A) Marinade

  • 1 tsp corn flour (corn starch)
  • 1 tsp Worcester (Worcestershire) sauce
  • 1 tbsp oyster sauce
  • a few dashes white pepper powder
  • 1/2 tsp dark soy sauce
  • 1 tbsp ginger juice
  • a tiny pinch of salt

Directions:

  1. Marinade beef with (A) for 30 minutes.
  2. Grease inner claypot wall with 1 tbsp sesame oil. Add washed rice and water to the claypot.
  3. Cover claypot with lid. Simmer the rice on gentle flame until it is cooked, about 10 minutes.
  4. Spread the marinated beef on top of the rice using the back of a spoon. Drizzle remaining sesame oil along the walls of the clay pot. Increase the stove heat and cook for 2 minutes.
  5. Crack an egg near the side wall of the claypot. Add spring onions. Cover claypot and turn off the stove, allowing the contents of the claypot to retain the heat and slow cook on their own for another 4 minutes. By this time, the beef should be just cooked and the egg semi-cooked (still runny).
  6. To serve, use a spoon to break the yolk and mix everything (rice, egg and beef) evenly. Drizzle dark soy sauce, to taste, and mix well to eat.