Rich Brown Beef Shoyu Sauce

Name: Rich Brown Beef Shoyu Sauce
Yield: Makes ⅓ cup
Cuisine: Japanese
Ingredients: ¼ cup shoyu (soy sauce); 2 tablespoons sugar; ¼ cup shoyu (soy sauce); ½ pound ground beef; 1 tablespoon vegetable oil for greasing the pot; ½ cup sake (rice wine); ½ cup sake (rice wine); ½ cup mirin (sweet cooking wine); ½ cup mirin (sweet cooking wine)

Gyuniku no tsume

Preparation info

Makes
⅓ cup

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

The Sushi Experience

By Hiroko Shimbo

Published 2006

About

Since I have included sushi rolls and nigiri-zushi using beef, I have created this recipe for a matching basting sauce.

Ingredients

1 tablespoon vegetable oil for greasing the pot
½ pound ground beef
½

Asia
Japan
Sauce

Method

Set a medium cooking pot over medium-high heat and pour in the oil. When the oil is hot, swirl it around and add the ground beef, stirring with a wooden spatula to break it up. When the beef is no longer rosy, add the sake and mirin. When hot, add 1 cup of water and the sugar and cook for 10 minutes over medium-low heat, constantly skimming off any foam that rises. Add the shoy