Saga Wagyu Sukiyaki
From elgourmand2 9 years ago
- 1 Hr. to make
- Serves 4
I lived in Hawaii for about twenty years and have been to Japan several times. The Japanese food in Hawaii is as good as the Japanese food in Japan, cheaper too. I often ate at two Japanese restaurants in Hawaii where the waitresses didn’t speak English. Read more You spoke Japanese or pointed at the menu. So I am spoiled & picky. Sukiyaki is a national dish of Japan and well known around the world. Saga Wagyu Sukiyaki is the type most often served. It is a delightful dish that I never get tired of. You may have to look up a couple of these ingredients but most of you will have little trouble finding them. For those who aren’t really familiar with Japanese food, please don’t do a lot of tweaking. Follow the bouncing ball and get great food. See less
Ingredients
- • 1 piece of Wagyu fat. Any decent beef fat will do. shopping list
- • 12 oz of Saga Wagyu beef thinly sliced. Any decent well marbled beef will do. shopping list
- • 1/2 cup mirin. You will find this at your local oriental grocery. shopping list
- • 1/2 cup sake. shopping list
- • 1/3 cup light soy sauce. Kikkoman type. shopping list
- • 2-3 Tbs. sugar. Use raw sugar if you can. shopping list
- • 8 oz firm tofu diced 1" X 1". shopping list
- • 1 small can water chestnuts, drained and sliced. shopping list
- • 2 cups Napa cabbage, cut crosswise into 1" strips. shopping list
- • 12 fresh shiitake mushrooms. Re-hydrated if dried. shopping list
- • 1 Tokyo scallion, or scallion, cut 1 1/2" long. shopping list
- • 1 cup Dashi (Japanese fish stock). shopping list
- • 1 bunch Enoki mushrooms. The small ones with the skinny stems. shopping list
- • 2 bunches chrysanthemum leaves, or 1 bunch water cress, tips only. shopping list
- • 1 pack of yam noodles (shirataki) drained and rinsed, or substitute bean-noodles. Pre cook. shopping list
How to make it
- 1. Preheat an electric or gas stand alone casserole type large pan or shallow pot. Add the fat piece to oil the pan.
- 2. When the fat has melted and given up its oil, discard.
- 3. Place slices of Wagyu beef to sear them lightly.
- 4. Add mirin, sake, soy sauce and sugar. Stir.
- 5. Add tofu, Napa cabbage, shiitake mushrooms, water chestnuts and scallion. Stir gently.
- 6. Pour in half of the dashi. When dashi boils, add the pre-cooked noodles & boil for a minute or two.
- 7. Add enoki mushrooms and chrysanthemum leaves, or watercress tips. When the leaves wilt, it is ready to serve.
- In Japan (and any decent Japanese restaurant) sukiyaki is cooked on the dining table. Some people like to pick pieces out of the pot as they are cooked and some like to wait until everything is cooked. If you wait, you get this fantastic flavor combo from the pot. At the very end you have a wonderful soup.
- Yep, you can do all of this on your kitchen stove and just serve it in a pot or bowel. Where's the fun in that?
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