The Gyudon (Donburi With Beef) with thinly sliced beef, simmered with tender onions and savoury-sweet sauce, is full of great flavour and, not to forget, easy to make.
What Donburi Means
Let me tell you that Donburi means ‘bowl’ in Japanese, which fits the concept, so in other words, a Japanese ‘rice bowl,’ where steamed rice is placed in the bottom and topped with meat, vegetables and marinades. Usually, the dish is served in large bowls.
Gyudon
Gyudon (Donburi With Beef) means beef bowl and is a Japanese dish including beef and onion, which is served over a rice bowl. Gyudon is classic comfort food and has been in Japanese cuisine for many years.
This hearty rice bowl is straightforward and famous for being a quick, nutritious meal that never fails to satisfy. The core ingredients in Gyudon are thin slices of beef, onion, and a sweet and savoury sauce served over a hot bowl of rice. The meat and onion are cooked in a mixture of soy sauce, mirin, sugar, and sake, giving the dish a sweet, salty flavour.
You usually put a raw egg on top in the original recipe, but I prefer not to, as I find the dish incredible without.
Gyudon Ingredients And How To Make The Dish Low FODMAP
Gyudon in Japan is known to be a quick and super tasty dish with a lot of flavours. The ingredients to make this meal at home are very simple. Please see below.
Meat: Usually, it’s made with ribeye or chuck that’s been shaved extra thin on a meat slicer for the Gyudon dish. These paper-thin slices are essential for authentic Gyudon; you can often find this cut at Japanese supermarkets.
Sauce: The sauce is a complimentary balance of sweet and savoury, made with soy sauce GF, sugar, mirin, and sake, which is added soon after the spring onion (green part only).
Sake: Sake is a Japanese rice wine and is an alcoholic beverage. Sake can be substituted with dry sherry, Chinese rice wine, or water for a non-alcoholic sub.
Onions: Instead of onions high in FODMAP, I used the green part from spring onions, and it worked out very well. The spring onions are a perfect pair with the tender beef.
My First Japanese Dish
This Gyudon (Donburi With Beef) recipe is the first Japanese meal I tried to make since we arrived in Japan, and I was blown away. I enjoyed the savoury-sweet sauce and the tender beef; it’s so yummy! I could gladly eat the meat by itself or as candy, so good was the beef. I recommend you to try it!
