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Gyuniku Yawata-maki Beef Burdock Rolls

Name: Gyuniku Yawata-maki Beef Burdock Rolls
Total time: 3 h 12 min
Yield: Serves 4 as a main, more as a starter (3 long rolls)
Cuisine: Japanese
Ingredients: 4 medium burdock roots (gobo), scrubbed well with a stiff brush; 1 L cloudy water from washing rice, or water with 0.5 tbsp vinegar; 360 ml dashi; ½ tsp salt; 3 tbsp mirin; 2 tbsp light (usukuchi) soy sauce; 675 g prime, well-marbled beef, sliced paper-thin into strips about 4 x 10 cm; 3 tbsp sake; 6 tbsp mirin; 6 tbsp dark (koikuchi) soy sauce; ground sansho pepper, to taste; a few salad greens, for the plate

Burdock boiled tender and steeped in seasoned dashi, rolled in sheets of paper-thin marbled beef, soaked in sake, mirin and soy, then grilled on fanned skewers and sliced into rounds dusted with sansho.

YieldServes 4 as a main, more as a starter (3 long rolls)
Hands-on1 h
Total3 h 12 min
Difficulty

Ingredients

burdock

4medium burdock roots (gobo), scrubbed well with a stiff brush
1 Lcloudy water from washing rice, or water with 0.5 tbsp vinegar

burdock marinade

360 mldashi
½ tspsalt
3 tbspmirin
2 tbsplight (usukuchi) soy sauce

beef

675 gprime, well-marbled beef, sliced paper-thin into strips about 4 x 10 cm

beef-roll marinade

3 tbspsake
6 tbspmirin
6 tbspdark (koikuchi) soy sauce

to finish

to tasteground sansho pepper
to tastea few salad greens, for the plateoptional

Contains

Gluten
Soy
Fish
Sulfites
Bonito
Legumes (any)
Wheat
Rice
Cabbage family (any)
Arugula
Lettuce
Spinach
Burdock root
Sichuan pepper
Mushrooms (any)
Shiitake
Yeast
Mold-ripened and koji-fermented foods
Seaweed (any)
Kombu
All mammal meat (alpha-gal)
Beef and veal
Histamine (aged and fermented foods)
Alcohol

Taste

Heat
Sweet
Salty
Umami / savory
Bitter
Richness / fat
Smoke
Aromatic spice

Texture

Chewy

Equipment

Oven
Stovetop
Grill

Season

Fall
Winter

Occasion

Weekend project
Entertaining

Effort

45–90 min active
Over 3 hours total
Difficulty 3
Needs advance prep
Make-ahead friendly

Nutrition

Calories: moderate
Protein: high
Carbs: moderate
Fat: high
Fiber: moderate
Sodium: high

Budget

Budget: high

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