Gyu Don

This Japanese dish consisting of a bowl of rice topped with beef and onions simmered in a mildly sweet sauce flavored with dashi, soy sauce and mirin.

The beef should be thinly sliced with thickness of about 1 mm and preferably beef brisket should be used.

Dashi is a soup base made from dried kelp and katsuobushi (bonito flakes). But these days you can just buy granulated instant from most Japanese or Asian stores. The picture on the right is the dashi I normally use for my recipes.

This recipe is for 4 persons.

Ingredients:

• 4 cups steamed Japanese rice
  
• 1 pound thinly sliced beef
  
• 1 onion
  
• 1 1/3 cup dashi soup
• 5 tbsps soy sauce
• 3 tbsps mirin
• 2 tbsps sugar
• 1 tsp sake
  

Preparation:
Cook Japanese rice. Slice onion thinly. Cut beef into bite-sized pieces. Put dashi, soysauce, sugar, mirin, and sake in a pan. Add onion slices in the pot and simmer for a few minutes. Add beef in the pan and simmer for a few minutes. Serve hot steamed rice in a deep rice bowl. Put the beef topping on the top of rice.