Japanese comfort food is amazingly moreish. Soboro Donburi, Gingery Ground Beef with Peas over Rice, is not just delicious, it’s super easy and quick. You just have to have the ingredients. Sake and Dashi are the two main things you need to find along with soy, sugar and pickled ginger. You also need fresh ginger and I like to add garlic and even a shallot to make it a rounded dish. You start by getting the aromatics fragrant, (I like to add a good bit of red pepper flakes here too,) then brown the beef. You add the sauce and let it braise in the sauce for about 10 minutes. Before the sauce is all evaporated, add the thawed peas and take it off the heat. The residual heat will warm the peas. Serve over jasmine rice and top with a tablespoon of pickled ginger. It’s one of those dishes that is on our regular rotation for a very good reason. It’s delicious and moreish!
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