This dish is great, if you're not up for preparing real yakiniku, and luckily it's just as delicious, you just miss the coziness of cooking together at the table. On the positive side it only takes around 30 minutes to cook the dish this way. What you need is:
1 piece of flank steak or similar beef cut
2-3 spoons of oil for frying
1 large onion
1 large carrot
1 green pepper
1 pointed cabbage
1 pack of bean sprouts
Ebara Yakininu no Tare Mild or Hot
Start by preparing the vegetables. Cut the onion in halves and then strips, peel and cut the carrot in half, then in strips in 1/3 lengths, remoce the top and seeds from the pepper and cut it in strips, dice the cabbage, remove the thickest pieces and wash the rest thoroughly, and wash the bean sprouts:
Cut the meat in strips of around 1/2 cm thickness:
We use flank steak as it's a flavourful cut with no hard fat edges, and it doesn't go dry. Put the oil in a large frying pan (ours is 32cm with a high edge, if you only have a smaller pan then consider frying half the amount in two rounds), heat it at medium high heat and add onions, carrot, and pepper:
Fry at medium high heat for 4-5 minutes until they are clear. Then add the cabbage:
Let it fry for 3-4 minutes while frequently stirring. Then add the bean sprouts:
Let them fry for around 1 minute. Then remove the vegetables from the pan and place them on a large plate or bowl. Add a bit more oil to the pan and then add the meat:
Fry the meat until it's cooked:
If there's too much liquid on the pan, remove it using a paper towel. Now add the barbecue sauce (Ebara yakiniku no tare) according to your taste, we recommend starting with 60-80 ml and then possibly add more later:
Remove the meat from the pan, drain liquid from the vegetables, put them back in the pan and fry them for 1-2 minutes. Adjust the flavour with more barbecue sauce as desired. Now first put vegetables on serving plates and then put the meat on top - this is to avoid the meat soaking in fluid from the vegetables collecting at the bottom, as it can reduce the meat flavour. Serve with freshly cooked rice. Enjoy!
