🇯🇵 Japan recipe

Gyudon (Beef Bowl)

Japan's most popular fast comfort food: paper-thin slices of marbled beef and sweet onions simmered in a savory-sweet sauce of dashi, soy sauce, and mirin, then ladled over a steaming mound of white rice. A soul-warming bowl ready in minutes.

Prep10 mins
Cook15 mins
Serves4
Difficultyeasy
Gyudon (Beef Bowl), a Japan dish

Ingredients

  • 400 g thinly sliced beef (ribeye or chuck, sliced 2 mm thin)
  • 1 large yellow onion, halved and sliced into thin half-moons
  • 1 1/2 cups dashi stock
  • 3 tbsp soy sauce
  • 2 tbsp mirin
  • 2 tbsp sake
  • 1 tbsp sugar
  • 1 tsp grated fresh ginger
  • 4 cups cooked Japanese short-grain rice
  • 4 eggs (optional, for topping)
  • Pickled red ginger (beni shoga) for serving
  • Shichimi togarashi (seven-spice powder) for serving

Method

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Nutrition per serving

Calories
520
Protein
22 g
Carbs
68 g
Fat
16 g

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