Nira (chives), garlic, and beef taste very good together! Many Japanese believe that garlic gives you strength, so I prefer to make this recipe if I’m feeling tired! It is good with steamed rice and also I like to eat it wrapped in lettuce with some chili sauce.
Yield: 2 servings
Time: 15 minutes
Ingredients
- 1/2 lb sliced beef (sukiyaki beef, chopped into 3″ pieces)
- 1/4 lb chives (chopped into 2″ pieces)
- 1/4 lb bean sprouts
- 1 shironegi (thick green onion, or regular green onion if you can’t find it)
- 2 cloves of garlic (sliced thin)
- 1 clove of garlic (minced)
Spices
- 2 tbps soy sauce
- 2 tbsp sake
- 2 tbsp mirin
- 2 tsp chicken soup powder
- dash salt and pepper
- ground sesame (optional)
Preparation
- Mix spices (soy sauce, sake, mirin, chicken powder and ground garlic) in a bowl
- Heat the oil and sliced garlic in a frying pan then cook green onion for 2 minutes over medium heat. Add beef, sprinkle salt and pepper, then transfer beef to a dish when it is cooked through
- Add nira, bean sprouts, and mixed spice in a frying pan. Cook for 3 minutes over medium heat
- Return beef to the pan, mix and cook for an additional 1 minute
- Serve with sprinkled ground sesame (optional)
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This is one of my favorite recipes of yours…My partner and I love it
Mai, you are my new best friend! I have done two of your recipes and I’m hooked. So as my Bf! He is Japanese so I’m trying hard to be creative. I love that you note serving sizes and provide English measurements. I don’t have to convert! On this recipe, what brand of chicken soup powder do you use? I shop at Mitsuwa and Marukia a lot.
Once again, I can’t stress enough how grateful I am for your contributions. Keep the recipes coming! Arigato Gozaimasu!
oh got it – nira=chives… sorry for not reading…
Cool website! Great that many menus are quick to prepare and instructions are easy to follow.
What’s nira?
How do you traditionally prepare the cabbage, i.e. accompanying Garlic Beef ?
What type of pan do you usually use?
Thanks!
Yeah, that is too bad. Though, you can find most of it on Amazon. Many of the ingredients are linked to specific listings there. Produce is a different thing altogether, though.
Yes, Grave of the Fireflies was a great movie, but very sad!
The recipes you have posted are wonderful! The only bad thing is sometimes it is very hard to locate or find substitutes for some of the ingredients here in the US. And why doesn’t your list of Great Japanese films include “Grave of the FireFlies?? :) Also, I am jealous..I just visited your city. What a wonderful place and much history and the food…AWESOME!!!
Hi Simon! Shironegi is similar to green onions/scallions, but they are a little bigger. White at the bottom, green at the top.
shironegi = scallions?