Sweet Simmered Beef and Onion Over Rice

A donburi is a dish of plain boiled rice in a large individual bowl topped with cooked foods such as vegetables, fish and shellfish, and meat and chicken. The savory sauce in which the toppings are simmered permeates the rice, creating a wonderful flavor harmony.

Beef was first used in donburi around the end of the nineteenth century, when eating beef was no longer forbidden to common people in Japan. The new dish was called gyu donburi, beef rice bowl. In this