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Meat miso rice bowl - "Niku miso don"

This is a rice bowl topped with minced meat seasoned with miso.
Prep Time10 minutes
Cook Time25 minutes
Total Time35 minutes
Course: Japanese rice bowl
Cuisine: Japanese
Keyword: Japanese, minced meat, rice bowl
Servings: 4 people
Author: okawarishitene staff

Equipment

  • a frying pan

Ingredients

  • 400~500 gram Minced meat of your choice
  • 2 cloves Garlic (finely chopped)
  • 15 gram Ginger (peeled and finely chopped)
  • 60 ml Japanese sake or Chinese rice wine
  • 2 tablespoon Miso paste
  • 2 tablespoon Sugar (white or light / dark brown)
  • 2 tablespoon Japanese soy sauce
  • 4 portion Cooked rice
  • 4 Soft boiled eggs
  • 100 gram Lettuce (shredded)
  • some Fresh vegetables of your choice (optional)

Instructions

  • To make meat miso :  put minced meat, garlic, and ginger in a cold frying pan. Add Japanese sake or Chinese rice wine and mix well before heating.
  • When the sake is mixed with the meat (you don’t see any fluid in the frying pan), heat it over medium heat and mix it with a wooden spatula. 
  • When the color of the meat changes to brown, add miso, sugar and soy sauce and mix well.
  • Stir constantly and cook until the liquid is almost gone.
  • Serve rice in a bowl and top with meat miso, lettuce, your favorite vegetables and a soft-boiled egg cut in half.

Notes

<Storage> Put the cooled meat miso in a container with a lid and store it in the refrigerator for up to about 5 days.
The above cook time does not include the cooking time of rice.