Easy to Make Sukiyaki

Sukiyaki is best cooked at home since you can select the best ingredients and feel more comfortable eating at your own pace.   Here is my way of cooking sukiyaki.   Very simple and easy.

What you need:

1 medium/large size frying pan (if possible not a wok, but a non stick frying pan)

1 small bowl for the egg and 1 medium bowl to serve sukiyaki (2 bowls for each person)

Photo (left) - white stuff on the beef is sugar - some prefer putting sugar separate from sauce*

Ingredients:

300 gr Thinly sliced beef (any types of beef will do, but beef for roast type is best)

2 Welsh onions

1 Tofu

4-6 pcs Shiitake mushrooms

Green vegetables (garland chrysanthemum if possible, alternatively spinach or any green leaf vegetables)

Vegetable oil (a little)

Eggs (1 egg for 1 person, adjust accordingly)

Other ingredients (not a must have but good to have):

Konyaku (if you can get the noodle type konyaku, otherwise, get a block konyaku and grate it thinly or slice it into smaller pieces)

For sauce* to cook ingredients:

1 cup (160ml) Water (or i usually use fish/beef broth - please do not add MSG)

3/4 cup of soy sauce

2 tbsp sugar*

1/2 cup of mirin

How to cook:

1. Put sauce mixture into a separate pot and bring it to boil.   Once boiled, put it aside.

2. Prepare vegetables.   Cut tofu, welsh onions and other vegetables into edible slices. 

3. Put 2 tsp of vegetable oil into the large frying pan and heat the pan, then put the slices of beef to fry.   

4. When the beef start to change color, put the beef on one side of the frying pan, while you arrange all the vegetables on the top (see photos)

5. Pour the hot mixture of sauce into the frying pan and bring it to boil once again.   Cook at medium for the first 10 minutes then change it to low fire until all vegetables are cooked.

How to serve:

Break raw egg one in each bowl and shake them well.     Pour sukiyaki into separate bowl.   

How to eat:

Dip your sukiyaki into the raw egg, before you eat.   The strong taste of sweetness and flavor of beef becomes mild with the mixture of eggs.

For those who prefer not to eat raw eggs:

Towards the end of cooking, pour raw eggs into the hot sukiyaki mixture in the frying pan and cook them as well before serving.