Chef Rika's Beef Steak with Two Japanese Sauces [Japanese Cooking] – Dining with the Chef

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Learn how to prepare wagyu beef steak, Japanese style! Chef Rika teaches us which cuts are best, and how to cook them. She also shares recipes for two sauces with Japanese flavors.

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Beef Steak with Two Japanese Sauces

Ingredients
– 250 g wagyu beef sirloin
– 2.5 g coarse salt (1% weight of meat)
– Butter, as needed
– Olive oil, as needed

Wasabi sauce:
– 1 tbsp soy sauce
– 1/2 tsp sugar
– Olive oil, as needed
– Wasabi, as needed

Ponzu sauce:
– 4 cm daikon radish
– Ponzu, as needed

Directions
1. Bring the meat to room temperature and season with salt (1% of its weight).
2. For the wasabi sauce, mix the wasabi and seasonings well.
For the ponzu sauce, grate the daikon radish and combine with the ponzu.
3. Heat olive oil and butter in a frying pan. Sear both sides of the meat over high heat for 1 minute.
4. Reduce the heat to low and cook both sides for 1 more minute.
5. Remove the meat from the pan and let it rest for 20 seconds. (For a 2.5 cm thick steak, about 2 min.) Slice thinly on a diagonal and plate and serve with the sauces.

Garlic Fried Rice

Ingredients
– 300 g cooked rice
– 2 cloves garlic
– 15 g (1 tbsp) ginger
– 2 tbsp olive oil
– 10 g butter
– 3 shiso leaves

– 1 pinch granulated dashi
– 1 dash soy sauce
– 1 pinch salt
– 1 pinch sugar

Directions
1. Add the sliced garlic and olive oil to a frying pan. Cook slowly over low heat for about 5 minutes.
2. Once the garlic turns golden brown, remove. Add butter and cooked rice to the pan. Stir-fry the rice, seasoning with grated ginger, salt, sugar and granulated dashi.
3. Turn off the heat. Add soy sauce to the rice and gently mix together.
4. Finely shred the shiso leaves.
5. Plate the rice and top with the garlic and shredded shiso. Ready to serve.

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