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Teriyaki Beef Rolls

Connie Veneracion
Baby asparagus are wrapped in sukiyaki-cut beef, floured, browned and simmered in teriyaki sauce. Topped with toasted sesame seeds, teriyaki beef rolls are perfect with rice.
Teriyaki Beef Rolls
Prep Time 10 mins
Cook Time 10 mins
Total Time 20 mins
Course Main Course
Cuisine Japanese
Servings 3 people

Ingredients
  

  • 200 grams baby asparagus
  • 250 grams sukiyaki-cut beef
  • 2 tablespoons rice flour corn starch will do too
  • 2 tablespoons sake
  • 2 tablespoons mirin
  • 2 tablespoons light soy sauce
  • ½ teaspoon grated ginger optional
  • 1 teaspoon sugar optional
  • cooking oil for frying
  • 1 teaspoon toasted sesame seeds

Instructions
 

  • Rinse and wipe dry the baby asparagus.
    Wrapping Asparagus with Thin Slices of Beef
  • Place a slice of sukiyaki-cut beef flat on your work surface. Place three pieces of baby asparagus on the edge near you. Roll the beef carefully (don’t tear them with heavy hands!) to seal the asparagus. Repeat until all the asparagus have been wrapped or until there are no beef slices left to wrap them with.
  • Arrange the beef-wrapped asparagus side by side in a single layer.
  • Place one tablespoon of rice flour in a strainer. Hold the strainer above the leftmost wrapped asparagus and, while moving the strainer slowly towards the right, tap gently.
  • Turn the beef-wrapped asparagus over. Repeat the flouring procedure with the remaining rice flour.
    Sprinkling Asparagus wrapped with Beef with Flour
  • Make the teriyaki sauce. Mix together the sake, mirin, soy sauce, and the optional ginger and sugar, if using.
  • Heat enough cooking oil in a pan to reach a depth of one-fourth inch.
  • Fry the beef-wrapped asparagus in batches of four or five. DO NOT overcook them. Just brown and sear then scoop out and move to a plate.
    Searing Beef-wrapped Asparagus / Simmering teriyaki sauce
  • When all the wrapped asparagus have been browned and seared, pour the teriyaki sauce in the pan. Boil gently for a minute.
  • Arrange the fried beef-wrapped asparagus in the pan in a single layer. Cook over high heat, rolling them in the sauce, until the meat has soaked up all the sauce.
    Cooking beef-wrapped asparagus in teriyaki sauce
  • Transfer the beef-wrapped asparagus to a plate. Sprinkle with toasted sesame seeds and serve at once.

Notes

In most recipes on the web, strips of beef (cut like bacon rashers) are wound around the asparagus. I used sukiyaki-cut beef instead to make wrapping easier and to make sure that the beef cooks in a few minutes.
If sukiyaki-cut beef is not available in your area, just choose a good cut of beef and ask the butcher to machine-slice the meat for you. Top round, bottom round or eye round are my choices; sirloin and tenderloin do not have enough fat.
Now, about the asparagus. If you’re using larger spears, you will need to cut off the woody bottoms. You’ll also need to blanch the asparagus and give them an ice bath afterwards. What for? The cooking time of this dish is very short and large asparagus spears won’t get cooked through. So, they’ll have to be partially cooked already before they are wrapped in meat.
Updated from a recipe originally published in 7/11/2016
Keyword Teriyaki Sauce
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