SERVES: 4
Ingredients
Amakuchi (Honey – Soy Sauce)
- ¼ cup honey
- ¼ cup tamari (soy) sauce
- ¼ cup oyster sauce
- 2 tablespoon water
Karakuchi (Garlic-Soy Sauce)
- 1 teaspoon canola oil
- 3 cloves garlic peeled and minced
- ½ cup tamari (soy) sauce
- ½ teaspoon black pepper ground
- ¼ cup water
- 1 teaspoon cornstarch
Pepper Lunch Beef (serves 4)
- 4 tablespoon canola oil (1 tablespoon per person)
- 1 onion Large onion chopped finely (¼ onion per person)
- 2 cloves garlic peeled and minced (½ garlic clove per person)
- 4 cups precooked japanese white rice (1 cup per person)
- 1.5 pounds sukiyaki beef If you cannot find sukiyaki beef, you can use sirloin and freeze and then cut ultra thin
- 1 teaspoon pepper (¼ teaspoon per person)
- 1 cup corn (can use cooked fresh, frozen or even canned)- ¼ cup per person
- 4 teaspoon butter (1 teaspoon per person) or margarine if you need to keep it dairy free.
- 2 tablespoon green onions thinly sliced for garnish – optional
Instructions
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Make the special honey brown sauce (Amakuchi). In a small pan add honey, soy sauce, oyster sauce mix and water. Cook over low heat for about 5 minutes and set aside.
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Make the garlic soy sauce (Karakuchi). In a small pan add your oil and then add your garlic and just sauté until slightly aromatic then add the tamari (soy sauce) and pepper. Mix the cornstarch and water together to make a slurry and then slowly add to karakuchi sauce and cook until boils and slightly thickens. Set aside.
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Make your Pepper Lunch Steak. In an iron skillet or a heavy duty pan, heat up your pan to a high heat, add your oil, onions and garlic and cook just until aromatic, add 1 cup of rice (per person) in the middle of the pan, then add the beef around the rice. sprinkle pepper on your beef, add the corn on top of rice and then place a dab of butter on top of your corn/rice mixture.
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It is at this point that in the restaurant pepper lunch they would remove from the heat and serve to you. It is up to you but if you have 4 iron skillets and can get the pans super hot to cook the meat then by all means remove from the heat and serve. However, I only have one iron skillet, and only 3 burners and 3 regular pans and 4 mouths so feed.
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For those of you that do not have an iron skillet or really like their beef more well done or even crispy then keep on cooking for a little bit (3-5 minutes) and turn over the beef and let the rice get a little crunchy on the bottom as that is my absolute favorite part.
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Garnish your pepper lunch steak and rice sizzle with a little green onion and serve with both the delicious special honey brown sauce (Amakuchi) and garlic soy sauce (Karakuchi). Enjoy!
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Bring the Japanese Pepper Lunch Beef Sizzle piping hot to the table in the iron skillet pan and set on an oven safe mitten. (Be Careful, it is VERY hot) Yummy served with edamame and Japanese pickles on the side. ITADAKIMASU! – Lets Eat!