Melty cheese beef rice bowl
Thinly sliced beef ideal for cooking this dish is often sold as sukiyaki-cut or yakiniku-cut beef. You want fatty beef. Lean meat just won't give the best results.Choose a soft cheese, or cheeses, that melts fat.
Ingredients
- 2 tablespoons cooking oil
- 2 large onions peeled and thinly sliced
- 500 grams thinly sliced beef cut into strips
- ¼ cup dashi
- ¼ cup soy sauce
- ¼ cup sake
- ¼ cup mirin
- ¼ cup sliced scallions to serve
- cooked rice
- 250 grams shredded cheese
Instructions
- Heat the cooking oil in a frying pan.
- Add the onion slices to the hot oil and cook over medium heat, stirring often, until softened and just beginning to caramelize.
- Turn up the heat to high, add the beef to the onion slices and stir to break up any clumps. Cook just until the meat is no longer pink.
- Pour in the soy sauce, mirin, sake and dashi, and stir.
- Turn down the heat to medium and cook, uncovered with occasional stirring, until the sauce has reduced to about two tablespoonfuls.
- Scoop rice into four bowls, ladle the beef over the rice and top with shredded cheese.
- Using a kitchen torch, heat the cheese until melted and toasted in spots.
- Garnish your melty cheese beef rice bowl with sliced scallions, and serve immediately.