A common thing you can find at convenience stores in Japan (side note: Japanese convivence stores are amazing and we really need to get something similar here) are these crustless sandwiches made on fluffy milk bread. They are filled with egg salad, katsu, or even fruit. Here is my recipe for the katsu sandwich. It is one of our favorites. My son asked me to make the egg salad version, so here it is. It is a creamy, lightly seasoned mixture of egg, served on fluffy milk bread and it is addicting.
You can make this egg salad and serve on other bread, but I highly suggest making the milk bread (recipe here) as it has an extremely soft texture unlike most other bread. If you aren’t up for baking bread, use wonder bread as a substitute. This recipe also really needs Japanese Kewpie mayo, which you can get on amazon (link here under Japanese). You might wonder what to do with the crusts of this amazing bread, if you aren’t using for the sandwich. I sometimes feed them to my chickens as a treat, but I am going to share a recipe tomorrow that uses them up and is SO tasty. 🙂
Japanese Egg Salad Sandwich (Tomago Sando)
Ingredients
- 6 large eggs
- 1/2 tsp sugar
- 1/2 tsp kosher salt
- 1/4 tsp black pepper
- 4 tsp milk
- 4 tbsp Kewpie Mayo
- 8 slices milk bread crusts removed
- salted butter
Instructions
- Put the eggs in a large sauce pan and cover with water by at least an inch. Place over medium heat and bring to a boil. Once boiling, reduce to a high simmer and cook for 12 minutes. Drain eggs and place in ice water to cool, then peel them.
- Place eggs in a bowl and use a knife and fork to mash the yolk and cut the whites into small uniform pieces. Add the salt, sugar, pepper, milk and mayo and mix gently until well combined. Place in the fridge until you are ready to prep sandwiches.
- Butter the inside of both slices of bread for one sandwich. This helps keep the bread from getting soggy. Layer on the egg salad and close up and cut in half. You can serve right away or wrap in plastic wrap and put in the fridge for later.
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