Gyudon (Japanese Beef Rice Bowl)
A weeknight favorite with thinly sliced beef + tender onions in a sweet and savory sauce! So quick + easy!
This is one of those lightening fast speedy weeknight-worthy dinners. With just a handful of ingredients and minimal prep time, this comes together in 45 min, start to finish (and for most of the time, we’re just letting it simmer).
So what exactly is gyudon? Gyudon is a traditional Japanese beef bowl, a popular fast food item thanks to Yoshinoya, with thinly sliced beef and sweet onion in a quick-simmered sweet and savory soy-based sauce.
The key is using paper thin cut beef here, readily available in most Asian grocery stores. And they’ll have kombu and bonito flakes as well for your dashi broth. Or you can place the ribeye in the freezer until firm, slicing as thin as possible. This thin cut of beef makes this dish super fast comfort food.
- 1 cup sushi rice
- 1 ½ cups sliced sweet onion
- ¼ cup dry sake
- ¼ cup mirin
- 3 tablespoons reduced sodium soy sauce
- 1 tablespoon sugar
- 1 pound boneless ribeye steak, thinly sliced
- 4 fried eggs
- ¼ cup benishoga, red pickled ginger
- 2 green onions, thinly sliced
- 2 teaspoons toasted sesame seeds
- for the dashi broth
- 4 cups water
- ½ ounce dried kombu
- ½ ounce dried bonito flakes