About the Recipe
The donburi rice bowl is Japan's quintessential one bowl dish. The original dish is probably chicken and egg donburi, AKA Oyakodon. This steak donburi is a relatively new dish compared. This delicious recipe was provided by my friend & contributor Yumiko Nikaido from Tokyo. Yumiko uses Wasabi paste out of a tube because it has a stronger flavour and provides a more puncy taste. I've tried this dish using wasabi from a sushi bar as well and I have to say, Yumiko is dead right - the tube variety really works well.
Ingredients
2 spring onions, rinsed
2 sirloin steak (approx. 200g / 6 oz each)
1 sheet of kitchen paper
salt & pepper
2 tbsp olive oil
40g / 1.5 oz butter
15 - 20g / 0.5 - 0.75 oz wasabi paste from a tube
2 tbsp soy sauce
400g cooked rice
Preparation
slice the spring onion very thinly and set a side for your topping
pat the steaks dry with kitchen paper then season with salt & pepper
mix the soft butter and wasabi in a small bowl and mix. set aside
heat the olive oil in a frying pan, add the steaks and fry for 2 mins. turn over and fry for further 2 mins
place the steaks on a plate to rest
add the soy sauce to the pan. turn off the heat and stir (this prevents the soy sauce from burning) so that the juices combine with the soy sauce
slice your steaks into 1 cm strips, then cut into small diamonds. return the steaks pieces to the pan (without the heat) and stir to give each piece a good coating of the sauce
place the cooked rice in two bowls. arrange the steak diamonds over the rice, then add the spring onion. finally, microwave the wasabi butter for a few seconds until it is runny. drizzle over the top of the steak pieces
your Steak Donburi rice bowl with Wasabi butter is ready to serve