Cowboy Sushi

sushi japanese sushi beef easy how-to recipe

Certified Angus Beef® brand beef flank steak croons like a country love song. Tender yet bold. Delicate threads of Japanese sake rice wine, soy sauce and a kiss of butter complement the beef. Wrapped up in Japanese white rice and nori (dried seaweed) the cowboy sushi may just have you doing a do-si-do with your favorite people. 

Ingredients: 
  • Certified Angus Beef ® brand beef flank steak, cut into 10 strips
  • 5 T soy sauce
  • 3 T Japanese sake rice wine
  • 1 T butter
  • ½ tsp. minced garlic
  • 2 carrots, peeled and sliced into thin sticks
  • ½ bunch asparagus, washed and stems removed
  • 3 cups freshly cooked Japanese white short-grain rice
    (If you have a rice cooker, use the sushi setting.)
  • 2 ounces of Japanese rice vinegar (or regular distilled vinegar)
  • 3 T sugar
  • 1 T table sea salt
  • 5 large sheets of dried seaweed (nori)
Directions: 

In a deep pan, simmer Certified Angus Beef® brand beef flank steak strips for 3 to 4 minutes. Add carrots and allow a low boil for another 3 minutes. Add the asparagus and cover. Steam for 3 minutes. Take off the heat and drain the sauce. (Save for later to drizzle over a bowl of rice and/or a slice of Certified Angus Beef® brand Prime Rib.)

Microwave the vinegar with the sugar and salt for about a minute. (Or until the sugar has melted.) Using slicing motions gently cut the warm vinegar into the hot Japanese (short-grain) rice.

Arrange about ¾ cup of cooked Japanese rice on a mat. Place a few strips of beef, carrots and asparagus towards the end of the mat. Roll. For pictorial and further instructions please see my recipe for Korean Bee-Bim-Bop Sushi.