This hearty Japanese rice bowl features soboro (finely ground meat simmered in soy sauce, dashi, and sake) served over rice to make a hearty meal. To simplify the recipe, Elizabeth Andoh suggests using water instead of dashi.In 2018, Food & Wine named this recipe one of our 40 best: Long before rice bowls were in vogue, cookbook author and Japanese expert Elizabeth Andoh taught readers how to make donburi&mdash;a casual, working-class dish of meat and vegetables served over rice as a complete meal. This version, made with a seasoned ground meat saut&eacute; known as soboro, features ground beef, peas, and fresh ginger spooned over perfectly steamed rice. This hearty Japanese rice bowl features soboro, finely ground beef simmered in a soy sauce, dashi, and sake mixture. To simplify the recipe, Elizabeth Andoh suggests use water instead of dashi.

Soboro Donburi (Gingery Ground Beef with Peas over Rice)

pound 90% beef

sake

soy sauce

Dashi or water

sugar

English peas, thawed

ginger

Rice

beni shoga (Japanese pickled ginger)

Stir together ground beef, sake, soy sauce, dashi, and sugar in a small Dutch oven or medium-size, heavy saucepan. Cook over medium-high, stirring often to break up large lumps of beef, 5 minutes. Stir in peas and ginger; cook, stirring occasionally, until liquid is mostly evaporated and beef is no longer pink but is still moist, about 4 minutes. Remove from heat.


Divide rice evenly among 4 large bowls. Spoon 1/2 cup beef mixture over each. Garnish with pickled ginger.


This is amazing! Unfortunately I didn't have dashi (used vegetable stock instead) and no sake, so used sweet mirin instead and only added 1/2 tablespoon of sugar instead of 1.5. The whole family thought this is one of the best dishes ever! It's very different, but completely delicious.

This was very good and very quick to make. I used murin. instead of sake And minced ginger. It took longer to cook down the liquid but my grd bf was higher fat. I think I would add a little crushed red pepper next time for a little heat interest

This is just not that good. Not very gingery, and could use something to give it a bit of thickening at the end, maybe a little cornstarch. There are lots of better recipes out there to try.

So add spice like red peppers to spike it up.

So easy and so good! My family loves this one. It isn’t a recipe I’d necessarily make for company, but it’s a quick, easy, and delicious weeknight meal that comes together in a snap. I don’t have sake on hand, so I substituted with rice wine vinegar diluted with water.

I looked up this recipe because I misplaced the issue in which it appeared. Unfortunately the accompanying recipes for the dashi and a hot sauce, which isn't even mentioned, are not included.

soboro donburi (gingery ground beef with peas over rice)

Total: 40 minutes

Servings: 4

Cost: $4.56 /serving

Author : Elizabeth Andoh

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