Quick Sukiyaki Style Beef Donburi

Total Time: 15 mins Preparation Time: 5 mins Cook Time: 10 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 1
• 1 ounce snow peas, trimmed
• 1 teaspoon vegetable oil
• 1 green onion, part only thinly sliced (save the green part to garnish another dish)
• 2 cremini mushrooms, thinly sliced
• 3 ounces beef sirloin, very thinly sliced (look for sukiyaki sliced beef at an asian market)
• 1 1/2 teaspoons sugar
• 1/4 cup dashi
• 2 tablespoons soy sauce
• 1 tablespoon mirin
• 1 tablespoon sake
• 1 cup cooked brown rice
• shichimi pepper, to taste

Recipe

• 1 bring a very small saucepan of water to a boil. add the snow peas and cook for 1 minute, until the color turns very bright. drain and set aside.
• 2 in a small skillet, heat the oil. add the onion, and saute until it starts to soften.
• 3 add the mushrooms, and saute for 3 to 4 minutes, until they start to soften.
• 4 add the beef and sugar, stir to combine all of the ingredients, and cook until the beef starts to brown.
• 5 add the dashi, soy sauce, mirin, and sake; and cook for another 3 to 4 minutes over high heat.
• 6 ***if using in a bento, place the meat mixture in a bowl and allow to cool before packing in the box on top of the rice. garnish with the blanched snow peas and shichimi pepper.
• 7 if serving immediately, place the cooked rice in a deep bowl, then top with the meat mixture and some of the cooking liquid. place the snow peas on top and sprinkle with the shichimi pepper.