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Yakiniku Bento, Three Ways to Eat

Name: Yakiniku Bento, Three Ways to Eat
Yield: 1 servings
Cuisine: Japanese
Ingredients: 120 g Sliced beef; 2 tsp Sake; 2 tsp Mirin; ½ tsp Sugar; 2 tsp Soy sauce; ½ tsp Garlic paste; ½ tsp Ginger paste; ½ tsp Wasabi; ½ tsp White sesame seeds; 2 pieces Nori sheets; 2 tsp Mirin; 2 tsp Soy sauce; 300 ml Dashi; 1 tsp Soy sauce; to taste Salt; ~200-250 g Cooked white rice; ~2 tbsp Chopped green onion

🍽 Serves 1

This dish features pan-fried yakiniku (grilled beef or pork) layered over rice topped with a soy-soaked nori sheet, Japanese bento style. Beyond enjoying it plain, you can add toppings like scallions, ginger, and wasabi, or finish by pouring warm broth over the meat and rice for a soupy, ochazuke-style third way to eat it.

Adapted from a video by MASAの料理ABC

一個燒肉便當，竟然可以吃三種吃法？

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Ingredients

Sliced beef120 g
Sake2 tsp
MirinFor marinating the beef2 tsp
Sugar½ tsp
Soy sauceFor marinating the beef2 tsp
Garlic paste½ tsp
Ginger paste½ tsp
Wasabi½ tsp
White sesame seeds½ tsp
Nori sheets2 pieces

Steps

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1
Mix the sliced beef with sake, mirin, sugar, soy sauce, garlic paste, and ginger paste, then let it marinate to absorb the flavors.
2
Pan-fry the marinated beef slices one by one in a skillet until golden and slightly charred, giving them that yakiniku aroma.
3
Soak the nori sheets in a mixture of mirin and soy sauce until they soften and absorb the flavor, in the style of a noriben.
4
Layer the bento: start with white rice, add a seasoned nori sheet, then a layer of the pan-fried beef, and repeat to create two layers of meat with nori in between.
5
First way to eat: enjoy the beef, nori, and rice together as is, savoring the charred meat aroma and seasoned nori.
6
Second way to eat: top the meat and rice with yakumi such as chopped green onion, ginger paste, wasabi, and white sesame seeds for extra flavor, similar to the classic hitsumabushi three-way eating style.
7
Prepare the broth by heating the dashi with soy sauce and salt to taste.
8
Third way to eat: put the beef, rice, nori, and toppings into a bowl, pour the hot dashi broth over them like ochazuke, and stir together to enjoy a warm, comforting dish.
9
If you don't eat beef, you can substitute pork belly or pork shoulder instead; the key is to pan-fry rather than stir-fry the meat, so it develops that signature charred yakiniku flavor.

Yakiniku Bento, Three Ways to Eat

Ingredients

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