Sometimes the best foods are created when two existing dishes are combined together, using the the best of both to make something truly incredible. Think where we would be without the beautiful pairings of cheese & ham, mash potato & gravy, or even chicken and teriyaki sauce. Sukiyaki don is what happens when you combine two amazing Japanese dishes into one super-delicious feast.
Sukiyaki is a hot pot dish made with meat, tofu, fresh vegetables and noodles simmered in a large pot with a sweet soy based soup. Once the ingredients are fully cooked, you dip them into a raw beaten egg and eat.
Don is short for donburi, a type of Japanese dish where a selection of toppings are laid over a bowl of rice. Common toppings for donburi are sliced beef, or chicken and egg, but a sukiyakidon has a whole sukiyaki dish piled over the rice, to make the ultimate one person hot pot / rice bowl meal!
● 300g"Cooked Rice":http://www.japancentre.com/categories/rice-mochi
● 250ml Sukiyaki Sauce OR 100ml Soy Sauce + 100ml Cooking Sake + 50g Sugar
● 1 pack Sukiyaki Beef (alternatively, 150g of thinly sliced beef or pork)
● 1 Spring Onion
● 1 Carrot
● 1 pack Enoki Mushrooms (available at Japan Centre London) OR normal Mushrooms
● 4 Shiitake Mushrooms
● 1 pack Tofu
● pinch of Nanami Togarashi (optional)
● 2 Eggs
Before cooking the meat and vegetables, we need to prepare the rice for our donburi. You can follow our online rice recipe to find out how to make perfect sticky Japanese rice or our brown rice recipe if you prefer a healthier option. If you really don’t want to spend too much time with rice preparation, you can try our microwavable rice, convenient and tasty!
Start the preparation by slicing up all your ingredients into small bite size pieces or thin slices. If you aren’t using pre-sliced meat, try freezing the meat before slicing to get it extra thin!
Heat up a large pan and lightly grease the base (either with suet or normal vegetable oil) before adding the thin strips of beef or pork and start cooking them gently.
Once the meat is nearly cooked, add the sukiyaki sauce to your pan. Once the sauce begins to boil, add the rest of your vegetables and try to keep items together. For example, keep the tofu on one side and the mushrooms on the other. Allow the ingredients to simmer for a few minutes. Add a pinch of nanami togashi to give a spicy quick to your meal!
Once everything is ready, pour the cooked sukiyaki mix over a bowl of freshly cooked rice. Crack a raw egg into a separate small bowl and dip the sukiyaki into the egg as you eat. Of course, you can always hard boil the egg and add it on top if you prefer!
Try a quality honjozo sake or oolong tea for a great drink to wash it down with!
● To get your beef or pork sliced really thin, freeze it first and then slice, either with a meat slicer, or a very sharp knife.
● Two tablespoons of mirin sweet cooking sake work well as a replacement for sugar if you prefer.
Dear Japan Centre,
We were amazed by the awesomeness of your sukiyaki donburi recipe. すごく美味しかったです!ドミニカはすごく上手な調理師でした。
However, we have a a couple of very minor comments to make, regarding the recipe, see below:
1. How ‘small’ is a ‘small cup’? I don’t have a 160g cup
2. 320g of rice for ONE person??
3. we tried the recipe with 5 spring onions instead of 1, and it was MUCH better than with 1! (although we’ve never tried with 1 onion…)
4. What is a ‘large’ pan? We used a wok, maybe you meant a saucepan?
5. Who would actually want a raw egg?? (please update the picture, it’s making me feel queezy)
6. ‘Half a carrot’…how big is a carrot?
7. We didn’t need 250ml of sukiyaki sauce – you should sell smaller bottles!
8. You need to include the time for cooking the rice in the total cooking time. Not everyone has cooked rice lying around the kitchen!
9. What is a ‘bite size’? – for Dominika, it’s tennis ball sized. For Andrew, it’s more like half a peanut
10. There was nothing, absolutely nothing, in the recipe about cutting carrots into star shapes
11. You said to put all of the vegetables + tofu into the pan at the same time. Well, not really, the carrots take a bit longer to cook than the tofu!
Anyway, it was very tasty :) We will cook it again some time!
Love you (we’ve been drinking)
Dominika & Andrew
oh, also, you didn’t specify that all comments get posted on the page…
sorry. love you xxx :) thumbs up