Pulled beef with homemade Teriyaki sauce

Pulled beef is one of the best things ever. It does require quite a lot of time to cook it, but it is worth every minute. And there are so many different options how to use it and play with it around. Here’s one of the options for your weekday dinner when it is combined with Teriyaki sauce and fresh or blanshed veggies for healthy addition and some baked Bok Choy.

Start with cooking the beef.

1. Preheat the oven to 150C. Heat up the pot with thick bottom or Dutch oven and couple of spoons of oil. Dry beef with paper towel and roast it 4-5minutes each side until browned from all sides. Set the beef aside and reduce heat.
2. In the same pot add extra oil and bake chopped onions for 3-4min until golden stirring them regularly.
3. Add minced garlic, grated ginger and brown sugar, warm it up. Add Soy sauce and cup of water. Let it simmer.
4. Add meat back to the pot and liquid should cover the beef up to 2/3. Cover pot and place it in the oven for 4 hours. Once in an hour take it out, pour sauce over the beef and turn it around in the pot. After 4 hours beef will be so tender and will be falling apart itself.
5. Take out cooked beef and by using two forks shred the meat. Strain the sauce, that was left in the pot, we will be used.
6. In the separate pan mix sesame oil, soy sauce, garlic powder, honey, mustard, rice vinegar together. Add the sauce from cooked beef. Warm up the pan and add shredded beef to it and warm it up until sticky and hot.
7. Prepare rice following usual sushi rice preparation steps. Add salt and vinegar.
8. In the bowl place rice, pulled beef, fresh carrot, butter baked mushrooms, cucumber and blanshed broccoli with lemon juice.

Let’s prepare Bok Choy:

1. Warm up the pan and heat up the oil. Add onions and bake them for couple of minutes, add smashed garlic and then place Bok Choy in the pan. Add some Soy sauce over and bake Bok Choy for 3 minutes. Then cover with the lid and let it bake for 3-4 minutes. And serve hot.

You’ll need:

• Beef brisket 1kg
• 4 chopped shallot onions
• 4 smashed garlic cloves
• 1 teaspoon of grated ginger
• 1 table spoon of brown sugar
• Soy sauce
• cup of water
• For sauce (1 teaspoon of mustard, 1 teaspoon of honey, rice vinegar, soy sauce, garlic powder)
• For Bok Choy (Bok Choy, chopped shallot, smashed garlic clove, soy sauce)
• Rice, rice vinager, salt
• Broccoli
• Carrots
• Cucumber
• Mushrooms, butter