Dashi is the basic ingredient of traditional Japanese cuisine. Usually dashi is combined with soy sauce and mirin for the authentic Japanese taste. To make dashi, you can just boil the main ingredients until the flavor is transferred into the stock soup. You can use dried bonito flakes, dried sardine, dried flying fish, kombu kelp, and/or shiitake mushroom as Dashi Ingredients.
Most Japanese Recipe calls for dashi, whether in soup form or in dried powder form. Japanese dishes that usually made using dashi are dashimaki tamago, gyudon (Japanese beef bowl), oyakodon ( Japanese Chicken and egg rice bowl), Miso Soup, etc.
In this article we would like to show you how to make one of those dishes; Gyudon. This Japanese cuisine has been Popular for years over the world.
You can also learn more about dashi such as Dashi types, and Dashi’s health benefits here.
Gyudon Recipe
Gyūdon (牛丼, “beef bowl”), also known as gyūmeshi (牛飯 or 牛めし, “beef [and] rice”). It is a Japanese popular dish, consist of rice topped with beef and onion simmered in seasoning such as dashi, soy sauce, and mirin. Gyudon is commonly eaten with pickled ginger, ground chili pepper, and miso soup as side dish.
In Japan, there are a lot of restaurant sell Gyudon, and many of this restaurant opening their branch in another country. Although considered as fast food, this dish is not unhealthy. This is proven by an experiment commisioned by one of the largest Gyudon restaurant chain in Japan, Yoshinoya.
Based on the experiment, eating gyudon beef daily for three months did not raise the risk of developing lifestyle diseases.
You can also make your own Gyudon rather than buying it in the restaurant since Gyudon is an easy and simple dish. Please try our recipe below!
Gyudon (Japanese Beef Bowl)
Ingredients
- 100 g Thinly Sliced Beef
- ⅛ Onions
- ¼ green onion/scallion
- 2 g ginger
- 1 tbsp shoyu
- 1 tbsp sake
- 1 tbsp mirin
- ½ teaspoon sugar
- 100 cc Dashi Stock (Combination of Katsuo and Kombu Dashi is commonly used)
Instructions
- Cut the onion into thinly slices, chop the green onion, and cut ginger into needle. Set aside.
- Heat the pan over medium-high heat and add dashi, sake, sugar, mirin, and soy sauce. Cover the lid and bring the sauce to boil.
- Once the sauce is boiling, add the sliced onions, and ginger. Spread them out.
- When the onion is tender, add the beef and cook until no longer red.
- Serve the meat and sauce over steamed rice. Top with chopped green onion and pickled red ginger.
Notes
Dashi Recipes and Dishes Recipes Using Dashi
As we mentioned before, Dashi is often used to add flavor to various Japanese dishes. Sometimes It is referred as ‘the heart of Japanese cuisine’. Check your other favorite Japanese dish recipes using dashi in our following article:
You can also find Vegan or Fish-Based dashi recipes in our following article:
Recommended Dashi Product
Today, you can get dashi quickly just by getting instant dashi. In Kawashimaya, we provide instant dashi packets. These dashi are usually in coarse form and bagged inside tea-bag packets. So all you need to do is simmer the packet in boiling water without having to strain or prepare the ingredients first.
Check our recommended dashi packets product that you might be interested in:
