Dinner · 20 min · Amounts not specified
Beef rice bowl
Thin beef, sweet-salty onion. A raw egg yolk if you trust your eggs.
The sheet · 2 bowls · 20 min
easyWhy tonight. Thin beef, sweet-salty onion. A raw egg yolk if you trust your eggs.
What it needs
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- beef
- onion
- soy sauce
- rice
- ginger
Good if you have them, fine if you do not: scallion, eggs.
Method
- Slice the beef as thin as you can manage — freeze it twenty minutes first and it slices much thinner.
- Simmer the onion in the soy, sugar and ginger until soft before the beef goes near it.
- Beef in for ninety seconds only, in the simmering liquid rather than seared. This is a poach, not a fry.
- Spoon it over hot rice with plenty of the liquid, and a soft egg on top if you have one.
Technique coach
What the method is trying to make happen
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The technique underneath this
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Published minimums for what is in this
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- Eggs and custardEggs Part 2 | Basics with BabishBinging with BabishOmelets and poaching, with the failure modes shown rather than described.Link checked 2026-09-08
- Eggs and custardScrambled Egg Omelet - Food WishesFood WishesScramble against omelet on the same stove, which makes the heat-and-stirring tradeoff visible.Link checked 2026-09-08
- Eggs and custardTruly Foolproof Poached EggsJ. Kenji López-AltPoaching without the wispy strands. The trick is what happens before the egg reaches the water.Link checked 2026-09-08
Why each of these is on the list
What the ingredients are actually doing
- beef
- Fat and connective tissue decide the method.
- onion
- The base under most of this library.
- soy sauce
- Salt with a savory backbone, so it seasons and deepens in one move.
- rice
- Starch that either steams or fries, and the two want opposite things.
- ginger
- Bright and hot when raw, mellow and warm when cooked.
Missing one of them? The substitutions are written against those jobs rather than against a chart, so they say what each replacement costs this dish in particular.
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Next
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