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Have you heard of Kimetsu no Yaiba (Demon Slayer)?
I just watched the latest movie called Mugen Train and one of the main characters, Kyōjurō Rengoku, was eating a Bento on the train. He kept saying “Umai” “Umai” “Umai”! “Umai!!” in Japanese means delicious!

In Japan, EKI-BEN, a specific type of bento boxed meals sold on trains and at train stations, is very popular. Rengoku’s bento has beef, a boiled egg, grilled shallots and Tofu with with a soy and ginger sauce. This recipe is only using one frypan (except for the boiled egg) and is quick and easy to make.

What is Gyunabe Dish?
Beef with a sweet soy and ginger sauce

What you need:

Sliced beef – I bought already thinly sliced Wagyu beef from an Asian shop.
Or you can buy thin sliced beef at Coles’s or Woolworth’s frozen section.

Dashi powder – from Asian shops or Woolworth called Katsuo Dashi or Shimaya Dashi Stock.

Soy sauce and Mirin – Asian shops, Coles, and Woolworth.

Tofu – you can buy at any supermarkets. I used Momen tofu as it’s very easy to handle.

Cooked multigrain rice – click here

Gyunabe Bento (Rengoku-san bento box)

© The Grazing Wombat

Sweet soy sauce and tender and juicy beef bento box

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Prep Time 10 minutes mins

Cook Time 10 minutes mins

Course Bento

Cuisine Japanese

Servings 1 people

Ingredients

  

• 200 g Beef thin slice
• 1 each Boiled egg
• 80 g Momen tofu
• ½ each Onion
• 50 g Shallots

Sauce

• 1 tsp Ginger (Tube or jar is fine)
• 2 tbsp Water
• ½ tsp Dashi powder
• 1 tsp Honey
• ½ tbsp Mirin
• 1 tbsp Soy sauce
• 1 tbsp Sesame oil

For bento

• 250-300 g Cooked multigrain rice Cook before starting and place in a bento box
• Red ginger pickled For garnish

Instructions

 

• Boil an egg and cut it in half.
• Slice the onion.
• Cut shallots into 3cm pieces.
• Cut tofu into cubes or smallish sized pieces.
  
• Heat up a frypan over a mid-heat and add 1 tbsp of sesame oil.
• Put the shallots into the frypan and place the tofu in as well.
  
• Add the onion into the frypan and stir.
  
• Once one side of the tofu is browned, turn it over and cook the other side.
  
• Occasionally roll the shallots as well so they don’t burn.
• Add the ½ tsp of ginger and stir.
• When the onion is soft, add the sliced beef and cook it through.
  
• Add 2 tbsp of water, ½ tsp of dashi powder.
• Add 1 tsp of honey, ½ tsp of mirin, and 1 tbsp of soy sauce then stir well.
• Stir well to cover all ingredients with sauce then turn off the heat.
  
• Place on top of the multigrain rice in the bento box.
  
• Serve.

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