Beef Teriyaki Don

Easy Beef Teriyaki Don For Dinner

One of my favourite Japanese dishes whenever I go to Japanese restaurant is of course the very popular Japanese Teriyaki meal.

Whether you want to make the sauce from scratch or buy a bottle of teriyaki sauce from the Asian grocery, this dish can be easily made at home. Of course, lazy me... I chose the short cut by using the pre made teriyaki sauce. It's really quick to prepare this dish and it is very tasty too. 

Also, this recipe is called Beef Teriyaki Don because 'Don' comes from the word 'Donburi'. Donburi is a Japanese rice bowl Dish. It's where a dish is served on top of a bowl of steamed rice in an oversized bowl.

I bought the pre-sliced beef from Asian grocery or  you can also slice the beef yourself. All you need to do is put your beef in the freeze until it's half frozen and slice the beef thinly. Half frozen the beef enables you to easily slice the beef thin enough without much struggle.

I don't provide an exact measurement for the sauce, so please add the sauce according to taste.

Beef Teriyaki Don

Ingredients:

- Sliced beef

- 1 onion (sliced)

- Teriyaki Sauce

- Sesame oil

- Mirin

- Sugar

- A handful of spring onions to garnish

Method:

1) Heat up the wok, add sesame oil. When oil is hot, add in the beef, stir the beef quicky then add in the onion.

2) Add in teriyaki sauce and sugar until you get your desire taste, then add in a dash of mirin.

3) When beef is ready to be served, garnish with spring onion.

4) Served the beef on top of a bowl of steamed rice, make sure you pour over the extra sauce too.

Note:

- If you don't have mirin, you can exclude it as Mirin is usually included in teriyaki sauce. I added some mirin because I like add more cooking wine in my cooking for an extra intensity to the flavour of the dish.

- If you have time you can marinade the beef with teriyaki sauce for at least 1/2 to 1 hour in the fridge before cooking.

Wagyu Beef Sausage Spaghetti

"No man is lonely eating spaghetti; it requires so much attention." (Christopher Morley)

I owe today's post to a friend (MT), who emailed me in the afternoon specifically to inform me the special discount on wagyu beef sausages at David Jones.  I was so excited that I went straight to David Jones after work, where I almost missed my stop because I was so immersed with an article in MX post about a $12,000 Louis Moinet watch that has dinosaur fossil in it. If this doesn't drop your jaw, how about a $320,000 limited edition that has fragments of dinosaur bones? 
Apparently, the release of this masterpiece has caused a scare buying all over the world among the watch enthusiasts.

Even though I didn't manage to score a $12,000 watch, but I did managed to bring home a $23 sausage treat. 
Every time I enter the gourmet world of David Jones Food Hall, I got so carried away with the varieties of food there, I could walk from aisle to aisle observing every single product on the shelves, section by section from the bakery to fine cuts of meat, the cheese counter, the fine olive oils to luxurious chocolates. The staffs are so polite, I feel shopping in there becomes an experience itself.

So I went up to the butcher and look for the wagyu beef sausages, there are so many types of gourmet sausages available. I bought 3 of the wagyu sausages  and I saw the mango and chicken sausage..."Interesting"....I bought 2 of these. I also bought a tomato jam ($15) which supposed to lavish the sausage even more. We'll see if it's as good as it looks. 

My bill came up to $23.77, not bad for a wagyu beef treat, so if you can't afford to have wagyu steak all the time, why not try the wagyu beef sausage? Afterall, they are still wagyu beef aren't they?  =D

 I decided to use the wagyu sausages to make pasta for dinner. So below you find the recipe for my "Wagyu Beef Sausage Spaghetti". 

First, I pan fried the sausages until it's golden (doesn't have to be totally cooked, as we will cook it again while preparing the pasta sauce) and I sliced it to smaller pieces.

I haven't tried the mango and chicken sausages yet, I'll try it over the weekend, will definitely share my thoughts with you guys on this then.

Ingredients:

- 3 Wagyu beef sausages (pan fried and sliced to smaller pieces)

- 3 Garlics (chopped)

- 1/2 green capsicum (sliced thinly)

- 1/2 red capsicum (sliced thinly)

- Small bowl of button mushroom (cut according to your preference)

- 1 tsp fennel seed

- 1 tsp italian herbs

- 1 fresh tomato

- 1 cup of spaghetti sauce.

- A Handful of fresh oregano leaves

- 350 gm of spaghetti ( or pasta of your choice)

- Olive oil

- Salt and black pepper to taste.

- Parmesan cheese (optional)

Method:

1) Heat up a large fry pan,  add in olive oil.

2) Saute the garlic until golden, add in the sausages, add in mushroom. Stir until mushroom darken a little bit then add in the green and red capsicums. Stir for 2 minutes until tender.

3) Add fennel seeds and Italian herbs, give a quick stir until fragrant. Add the chopped tomato and the spaghetti sauce. Cook for 5 minutes and season with salt and pepper.

4) Add in the fresh oregano leaves and give it a quick stir.

5) Meanwhile, cook your pasta until al dente. Drain.

6) Toss the sauce with the pasta and serve it.

My husband gave me one word after the dinner, "I-chi-ban" (in english means first or number one), I guess he was just trying to say  it's good.

I have to admit the wagyu beef was abit too salty for me, but the saltiness really compliment when cooked with pasta. I think I could handle more of these sausages, maybe I should go back to David Jones again.

Beef and Asparagus Roll

"I like rice. Rice is great if you're hungry and want 2000 of something". (Mitch Hedberg)

I have some left over beef slices sitting in the freezer from steamboat during chinese new year, so I bought some asparagus to make this very easy and delicious Beef and Asparagus Roll. You can basically use any kind of marination sauce of you choice, for example; teriyaki sauce, japanese soya sauce and mirin or barbeque sauce. 
I used honey garlic and soya marinate sauce for this recipe. You can also add in other ingredients than what I put below, you can add enoki mushroom or cucumber too.

Beef and Asparagus Roll

Ingredients:

-Thinly slices of beef (approximately 20 slices)

- 1 or 2 bunch of asparagus (trimmed)

- Spring onions (sliced them thin and long) , this is optional.

- Marination sauce

Method:

- Preheat the oven 180C and oil a baking tray.

- Lay the beef slices, add the asparagus and spring onions roll them tightly and secure with toothpicks.
- Brush the beef rolls with marination sauce.
- Bake the beef rolls in the oven, repeat basting after 5 minutes.
- Bake until beef rolls are cooked.
- Once done, take them out from oven and brush them with sauce again.
- Remember to remove toothpicks before serving.