Traditional Japanese Gyudon Rice Bowl with Wagyu Beef
Traditional Japanese Gyudon Rice Bowl with Wagyu Beef

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Workers looking for a cheap lunch or dinner can be found sitting at counters of any of the hundreds of gyudon cafeterias all over Japan, wolfing down bowls of rice topped with beef and onions for just a few dollars per serve. Place the Poached Egg on top of the beef. Gyudon (Beef Bowl) With thinly sliced beef and sweet onions over a bowl of steaming rice, this Gyudon (牛丼), or "beef bowl" is a mouthwatering Japanese classic that comes together in minutes. The secret to tender flavorful beef is to gently simmer the meat in a broth made from dashi, white wine, and sake.

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To begin with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can cook traditional japanese gyudon rice bowl with wagyu beef using 10 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you cook it.

The ingredients needed to make Traditional Japanese Gyudon Rice Bowl with Wagyu Beef:
  1. Get 1 LB Double 8 Cattle Company Fullblood Wagyu Beef for Fajitas
  2. Get 1 1/3 CUP Dashi Soup (made with Hon Dashi powder and boiled water)
  3. Prepare 5 TBSP Soy Sauce
  4. Make ready 2 TBSP Sugar
  5. Prepare 3 TBSP Mirin (Japanese sweet rice wine)
  6. Prepare 1 TSP Sake
  7. Make ready 1 Onion (thinly sliced)
  8. Get 1 1/2 CUP Japanese Rice
  9. Take Beni Shoga/Pickled Ginger (to garnish)
  10. Make ready Scallions (chopped, to garnish)

So Gyudon literally is Beef Bowl. Thinly sliced beef and onion cooked in sweet soy sauce then topped on delicious Japanese short grain rice. When the Japanese want a quick lunch or dinner they often go for Gyudon whereas western people go to McDonald's and KFC. Typical condiments at a Beef Bowl place include pickled ginger Beni Shoga, Soy sauce, chili powder, and spice powder.

Steps to make Traditional Japanese Gyudon Rice Bowl with Wagyu Beef:
  1. PREPARING THE JAPANESE STEAMED RICE - Take 1 1/2 cups of Japanese short grain rice, and wash/rinse the rice. Then, soak the rice in water for 30 minutes. Place the rice into a sieve, and allow the water to drain off completely (usually takes 15-20 minutes).Place the rice and 1 3/4 cups of water in a heavy-bottom pot. - Cover the pot with a lid, and bring the ingredients to a boil over medium heat on the stove (remove the lid briefly to check - if the ingredients are boiling).
  2. Once the water is boiling, Turn the heat to low. Cook the rice with the lid on for 12 minutes or until the water is gone and - only the rice remains.Take the pot of rice off the heat/stove, and allow the rice to steam for an additional 10 minutes in the pot (keep the lid onduring this process). While the rice is steaming, prepare your Fullblood Wagyu beef and onions.
  3. PREPARING THE FULLBLOOD WAGYU BEEF AND ONIONS - Prepare your dashi soup according to the instructions on the packaging (mix the Hon Dashi powder with boiled water). - Pour the dashi soup, soy sauce, mirin, sugar, and sake into a shallow saucepan.Add the onion slices to the saucepan, and simmer for a few minutes until the onions are tender.Turn the heat to medium, and add the Fullblood Wagyu beef for fajitas. Allow the beef to simmer for a few minutes, until itis cooked through.
  4. The fat from your Fullblood Wagyu beef will render out, making your sauce a little thicker.Once your meat is cooked, and your sauce is delicious, remove the beef and onions from the pan. Reserve the sauce - from your saucepan for later use.
  5. FINAL STEPS - Place the Fullblood Wagyu beef and onions over a nice bowl of steamed rice.Pour a few tablespoons of the sauce (reserved from your saucepan) over the top.Garnish with pickled red ginger and chopped scallions, serve, and enjoy!

When the Japanese want a quick lunch or dinner they often go for Gyudon whereas western people go to McDonald's and KFC. Typical condiments at a Beef Bowl place include pickled ginger Beni Shoga, Soy sauce, chili powder, and spice powder. Wagyu Beef with rice is served in a "重 Ju" meal box, More upscale ingredients such as Unagi Eel and Wagyu are often served in more formal meal boxes. Gyudon basically translates to 'Beef Rice Bowl' in Japanese. It consists of a warm bowl of rice topped with a perfectly seared steak, an onsen tamago (i.e. hot spring egg in Japanese), a drizzle of sweet sauce, and then garnished with shredded spring onions.

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