Japanese

Gyudon Beef Rice Bowl

Name: Gyudon Beef Rice Bowl
Total time: 20 min
Yield: 4 servings
Cuisine: Japanese
Ingredients: 1.25 lb thinly sliced beef; 1 onion; 1 cup dashi stock; 1/4 cup soy sauce; 2 tbsp sugar; 1 tbsp grated ginger; 5 cups cooked white rice; 3 scallions

Tomoko @tomoko_osaka

Gyudon Beef Rice Bowl is Japanese home cooking, eaten at lunch and dinner. On the plate it is the dish at the centre. Below is what usually sits beside it, what it does and does not contain, and what else to cook once you have made it.

20 min Easy Dairy free

Ingredients

Serves

The quantities follow this count.

1.25 lb thinly sliced beef
1 onion
1 cup dashi stock
1/4 cup soy sauce
2 tbsp sugar
1 tbsp grated ginger
5 cups cooked white rice
3 scallions

How to cook it

Bring the dashi, soy sauce, sugar, and ginger to a simmer in a skillet.
Add the sliced onion and cook until translucent, about 5 minutes.
Add the thinly sliced beef and simmer, separating the pieces, until cooked through, about 5 minutes.
Let the beef soak up the sauce for a couple of minutes off direct heat.
Spoon the beef and onion over bowls of warm rice with some of the broth.
Top with scallions and serve.

Watch how to cook Gyudon Beef Rice Bowl

Someone making it start to finish, so you can see what the steps look like.

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Serve it with

A Japanese dinner is a plate rather than a single dish. These are the courses that normally sit beside Gyudon Beef Rice Bowl, read from the same composition Dinejot builds a real meal from.

Something to sip
- Asari no Osuimono (Clear Clam Soup)
  
  15 min
The cooked vegetable
- Agedashi Tofu (Fried Tofu in Dashi Sauce)
  
  20 min
What it is eaten with
- Genmai Gohan (Steamed Brown Rice)
  
  45 min
The sharp little thing
- Beni Shoga (Red Pickled Ginger)
  
  2 min

Safe at your table

Dinejot tracks ten allergens and tags every one of them by hand, so the absences below are as deliberate as the presences. Gyudon Beef Rice Bowl carries gluten, soy, and fish. It is free of the remaining 7 allergens on that list.

Every tracked allergen in Gyudon Beef Rice Bowl
Allergen	In this dish	Cook this instead
Peanuts	No
Tree nuts	No
Dairy	No
Gluten	Yes	Asa Sarada (Morning Cabbage and Corn Salad)
Shellfish	No
Eggs	No
Soy	Yes	Asa Sarada (Morning Cabbage and Corn Salad)
Fish	Yes	Asa Sarada (Morning Cabbage and Corn Salad)
Sesame	No
Coconut	No

These tags are set by a person rather than inferred from an ingredient list, and they describe the recipe as written here. Read the labels on whatever you actually buy.

What it brings to the plate

Estimated, per serving

Calories: 480 kcal
Protein: 26 g
Carbs: 62 g
Fat: 14 g
Fiber: 1 g
Sugar: 10 g
Sodium: 780 mg
Saturated fat: 5 g

Estimated values. Actual nutrition varies with ingredients, brands, and how you cook.

When to cook it

Gyudon Beef Rice Bowl takes about 20 minutes from a cold stove to the table, and the cooking itself is easy going. It is eaten at lunch and dinner. Nothing in the calendar rules it out, so it is a year round dish.