Japanese beef rice bowl (gyudon)
Sweet and salty, gyudon is thinly sliced beef cooked with softened onion slices in a mixture of dashi, sake, mirin and soy sauce, and served over rice. We like to add eggs and scallions.
Servings 3 people
Ingredients
- 2 tablespoons cooking oil
- 2 large onions peeled and thinly sliced
- 500 grams thinly sliced beef (about one pound) cut into strips
- ¼ cup dashi
- ¼ cup soy sauce
- ¼ cup sake
- ¼ cup mirin
- ¼ cup sliced scallions to serve
- 3 cooked eggs to serve
Instructions
- Heat the cooking oil in a frying pan.
- Add the onion slices to the hot oil and cook over medium heat, stirring often, until softened and just beginning to caramelize.
- Turn up the heat to high, add the beef to the onion slices and stir to break up any clumps. Cook just until the meat is no longer pink.
- Pour in the soy sauce, mirin, sake and dashi, and stir.
- Turn down the heat to medium and cook, uncovered with occasional stirring, until the sauce has reduced to about two tablespoonfuls.
- Scoop rice into bowls, ladle the gyudon over the rice, arrange the eggs on the side and sprinkle with scallions.