Teriyaki Steak

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Now on to today's recipe!

Teriyaki steak is a popular restaurant dish, but it's so easy to make at home. And the teriyaki sauce goes with any meat--you don't have to eat red meat if you don't want to. Fish, chicken, or pork would complement this sauce just as readily.

Soy sauce (sometimes called shoyu) is the base for teriyaki sauce.

Rice wine vinegar is next. It's the thing that makes the sauce zing.

I love rice wine vinegar. It's got that nice vinegary zip, without burning your senses like some other vinegar types.

Now for some brown sugar, to sweeten the mix.

I always like watching the brown sugar soak up liquid.

Now for the meat. My grocery store sells "beef for stir fry", already cut up, but if yours doesn't, sirloin would work well for this. If you're having a hard time slicing the steak thin enough, I recommend partially freezing it. It will firm up the meat and make cutting that much easier.

I let the steak marinate overnight. If you're strapped for time, though, as little as an hour would be all right.

When you're ready to cook your steak, put your pan on over medium-high heat. I like to saute in a mixture of sesame and vegetable oil. The sesame oil tastes and smells so nice, and the vegetable oil keeps the sesame oil from burning.

You could either pick out the meat, cook it, and then pour in the sauce, or just dump everything in together, which is what I did.

Just stir things around until your beef is fully cooked.















Serve over steamed white rice. I like to serve something crunchy with this, whether it be Man Du or storebought egg or spring rolls.

Recipe: Teriyaki Steak

1/3 c. soy sauce
1/3 c. rice wine vinegar
1/3 c. brown sugar

1 lb. steak, cut for for stir fry

Sesame and vegetable oils, for frying

Combine soy sauce, vinegar, and brown sugar; stir until sugar is dissolved.

Marinate steak in soy sauce mixture for at least an hour, but ideally overnight.

Heat sesame and vegetable oils in a pan over medium-high heat. When the pan is hot, saute the meat and marinade until fully cooked through. Serve over rice.