Gyu means 'cow', and 'don' means (rice) bowl, so it's a recipe for rice topped with (simmered) beef, served with a mildly sweet sauce and unions, and often topped with pickled ginger. Although the Gyudon shops will mostly be considered selling 'fastfood', it is actually a quite healthy meal. But, of course we do not always want to eat out when we feel like eating gyudon, so we searched for ways to prepare it ourselves. Very easy, and tastes just as good (or even better!) than the Gyudon served in the numerous gyudon-shops. And much cheaper too :).Ingredients (2p):
- Rice for 2 persons
- around 250 gram thinly sliced beef
- 1 onion
- 200 ml water mixed with 1 tbsp dashi powder
- 2 tbsp soy sauce
- 2 tbsp mirin
- optional for topping: ginger and sesame seeds.
Usually benishoga (pickled red ginger) is used, however, we prefer to use fresh grated ginger as topping.
Then, is a small fry-pan, mix the dashi-stock (200 ml water mixed with dashi powder) with the soy sauce and the mirin, while bringing it to simmer. Add the onion pieces and let them simmer for a couple of minutes. Lastly add also the beef, mix together with the onions and let the total simmer for a couple minutes until the beef has gained it's light-brown colour.
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| Simmering the onion wedges |
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| Mixing in the beef |
Divide the rice into two bowls, and add the beef-onion and sauce on top. Now for topping, grate fresh ginger (feel free to just use the more traditional pickled red benishoga) and add on top and spread some sesame seeds.
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| Home-made Gyudon |
You have made your own bowl of gyudon, no need to visit the Gyudon restaurants anymore. Enjoy!
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