Chef Rika's Two Japanese-style Stir-Fries [Japanese Cooking] - Dining with the Chef

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Cook healthy stir-fries with Rika's recipes. One has sukiyaki beef, vegetables and a sunny-side-up egg. The other has garlic and dashi spinach. The key is to use minimal oil, and control the heat!
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(1) Sukiyaki-style Beef and Vegetable Stir-Fry over Rice
Ingredients (Serves 2)
300 g beef chuck
1/2 onion
10 snap peas
2 tbsp sake
1 tbsp soy sauce
1 tbsp sugar
1 tbsp honey
A pinch of salt
A pinch of pepper
2 tbsp sesame oil
2 eggs
2 bowls of rice
Sansho pepper, as needed
Directions
1. Cut onion into thin slices along the grain. Remove the strings from the snap peas. Cut the beef chuck eye into 5mm thin slices, pound to tenderize and season with salt and pepper.
2. Mix sake, soy sauce, sugar and honey to make the sauce.
3. Stir-fry snap peas and onions with sesame oil in a pan. Once the onions turn golden brown, remove from the heat. Add more sesame oil and cook the beef over high heat until the surface is browned. Add the vegetables with the sauce and stir-fry.
4. Make eggs, sunny-side-up. Cook the eggs in a pan over low heat until the egg whites start to set.
5. Serve the cooked rice in a bowl and place the meat and vegetables inside. Top with the sunny-side-up egg. Sprinkle some sansho pepper on top.
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(2) Stir-fried Spinach with Dashi
Ingredients (Serves 2)
100 g spinach
1 clove garlic
1 tbsp sesame oil
100 ml water
1 tbsp sake
1 tsp granulated dashi
1 tsp soy sauce
A pinch of coarse salt
Directions
1. Parboil the spinach briefly. Cut them into equal lengths. Slice the garlic.
2. Fry the garlic in sesame oil over low heat. Once the garlic releases its aroma, add the spinach, water, sake, granulated dashi, soy sauce and salt. Stir-fry over high heat.
3. Serve the spinach with cooked garlic slices.