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Quick and Easy Gyudon Recipe
The perfect sweet and savoury meal, the Gyudon has been a Japanese staple for over 150 years. Thinly sliced melt-in-your-mouth beef and sweet, caramelised, tender onions over a hot bowl of rice, each bite of the Gyudon is pure beefy goodness. This gyudon recipe is quick to make and will satisfy all of your cravings in one go.
Meal: Lunch, Dinner
Cuisine: Japanese
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Yield: 2 servings
Ingredients
Rice:
- 1 rice cooker cup of Japanese short-grain rice
- 200ml water
Beef:
- 3 tbsp soy sauce
- 2 tbsp mirin
- 2 tbsp sake
- 1 tbsp brown sugar
- 60 ml water
- 1 tbsp cooking oil
- 1 yellow onion, sliced
- 230g sliced beef
Equipment
- Rice cooker
- 1 bowl
- 1 frypan
- 1 spatula
Directions
Rice:
- Add the rice into the rice cooker pot and rinse it under running water. Use your hands to clean the rice of any impurities.
- Discard the water and repeat until the water is no longer cloudy.
- Add 200ml water and pop it into your rice cooker to cook.
- Once it is cooked, scoop the rice into a bowl and set it aside.
Beef:
- In a bowl, add soy sauce, mirin, sake, brown sugar, and water and mix. Set aside.
- In a frypan, heat oil over high heat.
- Toss in the onion slices and cook until brown
- Add in the sauce mixture and stir using the spatula, cooking until the onions are caramelised and tender.
- Add the beef slices and cook until the meat is no longer pink in colour.
- Ladle and serve over a bowl of plain steamed rice.
Finishing touches
To top off this gyudon recipe, add a finishing touch of a raw egg yolk or onsen egg. When you’re about to feast, break the egg and mix it in with everything else, and your dish will immediately be elevated with an extra creamy richness.