Gyūdon 牛丼

Gyudon

Gyūdon (牛丼), often literally translated into English as beef bowl, is a Japanese dish 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. A very popular food in Japan, it is commonly served with beni shoga (pickled ginger), shichimi, and a side dish of miso soup. Gyū means "cow" or "beef", and don is short for donburi, the Japanese word for "bowl".

Ingredients

1. 4 cups steamed Japanese rice
2. 1 pound thinly sliced beef cut into bite-sized pieces
3. 1 onion, sliced thinly
4. 1 1/3 cup dashi soup
5. 5 Tbsps soy sauce
6. 3 Tbsps mirin
7. 2 Tbsps sugar
8. 1 tsp sake
9. benishoga (red ginger) for topping

Directions

1. Cook Japanese rice.
2. Put dashi, soysauce, sugar, mirin, and sake in a pan. Add onion slices in the pot and simmer for a few minutes.
3. Add beef in the pan and simmer for a few more minutes.
4. Serve hot steamed rice in a deep rice bowl. Put the beef topping on the top of rice.
5. Place some benishoga (red ginger) on the top if you would like