Gyūdon (牛丼) can be literally translated into English as (Japanese-style) beef bowl. It is a typical Japanese comfort food consisting of a bowl of rice topped with beef and onion simmered in a mildly sweet sauce flavored with dashi, soy sauce and mirin. It also often includes shirataki/translucent konyaku noodles. It is commonly served with beni shōga (pickled ginger), shichimi/seven flavor chili pepper, and a side dish of miso soup. Mixing in a raw egg is also very popular.
Here is the basic recipe:
INGREDIENTS: For 2 persons
-Two bowls of freshly steamed rice
-Beef, thinly sliced: 200 g
-Onion: 1
-Ito konyaku/shirataki/translucent konyaku noodles, 1 pack/180 g
-Fresh ginger: 1 medium-sized piece.
-Dashi (seaweed dashi): 2 cups/400 ml
-Soy sauce: 4 tablespoons
-Mirin/sweet Japanese sake: 4 tablespoons
-Beni shoga/red pickled ginger: to taste
RECIPE:
-If you have bought the beef in one block, cut in very thin slices.
-Cut the onion in halves first, then in slices about 5 mm thin slices.
-drain ito konyaku. Cut into 5 cm long strands. Wash well with cold clear water and leave in water for a while. Drain well.
-Cut the frsh ginger in thin slices.
-Bting dashi to boil and add soy sauce and mirin. Stir. Drop in beef, sliced onion, ito konyaku and sliced ginger all at the same tome. Let simmer on strog fire until onion has become translucent. Switch off fire.
Pour on top of a bowl filled with freshly steamed rice. Add some beni shoga and serve with a raw egg in a separate dish.
NOTE:
If you have the time, cook the beef beforehand. Let cool completely.
Re-heat quickly on a hot fire just before serving. It will taste even better!
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thx for recipe , love it
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I have been obsessed with gyudon since eating it at a Yoshinoya in Akihabara in Tokyo. Watching businessmen rush in, shovel down their gyudon in 5 min then rushing back to work was an amazing experience and great memory and one that this recipe keeps alive! Thanks!
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You are most welcome!
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When I saw the picture, I immediately thought of beef bowl. Then you mentioned it. It’s been a while since I’ve had something like this. I think may need to remedy that.
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Dear jenn!
Greetings!
I don’t eat that much beef, but this is a recipe I do like!
Cheers,
Robert-Gilles
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Dear Robert-gilles,
haha..how do you know that I am looking for more one dish meal and you have been giving me just that in the last few post of yours. Thanks you so much. All looks so delicious :))
Regards,
Elin
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Dear Elin!
Greetings!
Pure luck/coincidence?LOL
Always glad to please you!
Cheers,
Robert-Gilles
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yey! thank you! now i can make my own and dont have to go to yoshinoya hahahha
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My, “they” are going to have me arrested!LOL
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I keep bookmarking your recipes, I struggle to cope the trying them stage, as you are posting often 🙂
Keep posting though, they arre great recipe and highly educative posts !
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Dear Christelle!
Greetings!
I do have a whole “bank” of recipes!
That is why they come out quickly!
Better plenty than none!LOL
Cheers,
robert-Gilles
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