Right here’s a Beef Tataki recipe, a contemporary Japanese favourite with thinly sliced beef in a citrusy dressing. Select a deluxe restaurant model with beef tenderloin, crispy potato straws, and garlic oil for entertaining, or a fast meal with steak and packet crispy shallots for Monday nights. Spectacular both manner!
This recipe is among the mains within the fusion Japanese banquet menu I shared yesterday, pictured beneath.
Beef tataki
Tataki is a Japanese dish the place a protein (often fish or beef) is briefly seared on the surface, thinly sliced then served with a citrusy sauce. It’s a preferred starter at trendy Asian eating places, the form of meals that appeals to everybody – meat lovers in addition to those that benefit from the extra refined Asian fusion dishes (assume: Spicy Tuna Crispy Rice Desserts, that form of factor!).
However it’s dish you pay dearly for, round $30 for a small serving (6 to eight slices) at larger finish eating places. So the plate pictured on this publish would price round $80 at a restaurant (plus parking plus wine plus every little thing else!), in comparison with round $20 – $28 for the elements (the value of beef is an enormous variable).
My mom is fast to level out that beef tataki will not be conventional, you solely discover fish tataki in Japan (right here’s her Tuna Tataki recipe). So beef tataki recipe falls outdoors the area of RecipeTin Japan (“genuine Japanese recipes”) which provides me the uncommon alternative to publish a Japanese recipe. Albeit a contemporary one. I’ll take that!
Select: Restaurant v Monday-night model
As we speak, I’m sharing two variations of Beef Tataki.
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Restaurant: a copycat of beef tataki I’ve had at pretty trendy Asian eating places right here in Australia and in Japan. Skinny slices of seared rare-cooked beef tenderloin with a Yuzu dressing, a mound of crispy potato straws and drizzled with garlic infused oil.
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Monday-night Beef Tataki model: Named as such as a result of it’s easy sufficient to make midweek, and in addition a lighter approach to serve steak than with richer steak sauces like Béarnaise and creamy sauces like Peppercorn or Mushroom Sauce (doesn’t everybody kick off the week swearing to “eat wholesome”? 😂)
Substances for Beef Tataki
As famous above, I’m providing two recipe choices right here – restaurant model vs and simple Monday evening possibility. So take your choose!
BEEF TENDERLOIN
Beef tenderloin is a lean, tender lower of beef which makes it ultimate for serving in a fragile dish like tataki. Due to the form, you get a bigger space of gorgeous uncommon cooked pink meat which makes this tataki extra-luxurious to eat.
Selecting the most effective beef tenderloin piece for tataki
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Form – Select a bit that’s thinner and longer (250g/8oz that’s 13 – 15cm / 5-6″ lengthy) as it’s simpler to slice thinly than giant thick blocks.
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Quick and fats – If yours is shorter than 11.5cm / 4.5″ (which implies it’s wider), lower it in half horizontally to type 2 thinner items. It takes a really expert knife grasp to chop a thick piece of beef like that into skinny slices. (Partially freezing doesn’t work for such a thick piece both, you find yourself with stable outsides earlier than the within is semi-frozen).
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Trim to uniform thickness so the meat cooks by evenly.
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Weight – The recipe is written for a 250g/8oz piece however you should utilize a bigger piece if you want, there’s sufficient sauce.
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High quality – As a result of that is cooked to uncommon, I like to recommend getting a very good high quality piece out of your native butcher. However there’s no have to get premium high quality like I might (strongly) advocate if making uncooked beef dishes like beef tartare or carpaccio. Should you use a cheap piece, I’d advocate cooking the meat to at the very least medium uncommon and be ready to chop thicker slices (extra nicely executed = meat breaks extra simply when finely sliced). Additionally, use an even bigger piece as a result of thicker slices = much less slices!
steak possibility for tataki
In principle, you can also make tataki with any lower of steak, however my private preferences are:
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beef tenderloin steaks (filet mignon)
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sirloin/porterhouse (referred to as New York Strip within the US. To not be confused with what the US name porterhouse steaks which is the equal of T-bones right here in Australia). That is pictured beneath (fats trimmed). It’s a very good possibility as a result of it has a extra beefy flavour than tenderloin.
Each of those cuts are tender sufficient to serve for a dish like tataki and in addition they’re comparatively lean so that you gained’t have giant chunks of chilly white fats.
yuzu dressing for tataki
Tataki is usually served with a citrusy dressing. I’ve opted for a home made ponzu-style sauce with the addition of Yuzu, a Japanese citrus which tastes like a mix of lime and lemons (wonderful subs!). The Yuzu offers this a contact of particular (eating places like it!) and distinct Japanese flavour.
Nonetheless, Beef Tataki is the form of dish that may work with varied Japanese/Asian fashion sauces so I’ve listed some different sauce choices beneath.
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Cooking sake and mirin – two important sauces in Japanese cooking that may be discovered within the Asian aisle of huge grocery shops lately, in addition to Asian shops. They add depth of flavour into this sauce. Should you can’t eat alcohol or discover them, counsel utilizing one of many alternate sauces listed beneath.
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Rice vinegar – substitute apple cider vinegar
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Japanese soy sauce – or Chinese language mild soy sauce or all goal soy sauce. Don’t use darkish soy sauce (too intense, it’ll spoil the dressing).
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Yuzu – a distinctly Japanese citrus. Cooks undergo phases after they’re obsessive about this, with menus in all places crammed with Yuzu this and Yuzu that! Discover it in Asian and Japanese grocery shops, they’re bought in small bottles like pictured beneath. Substitute with equal elements lemon and lime juice (it’s truly not far off).
different sauces
In case you’ll be able to’t eat alcohol or can’t get all of the elements for the Yuzu Dressing, listed here are different sauces/dressings that will even be terrific with beef tataki. Should you use any of those, don’t use the garlic oil as these dressings have already got oil in them.
one thing crunchy!
A crunchy garnish at all times works nicely with these form of dishes, so as to add texture distinction. For the restaurant-style beef tataki possibility, I’m utilizing Crispy Potato Straws (blatant copycat from tataki I’ve had at eating places). These superfine fries are the right garnish as a result of they’re delicately crisp and you’ll pile them up excessive in order that they add visible curiosity.
I’ve posted them as a separate recipe as a result of they’re worthy! See Crisp Potato Straws (Pommes Paille).
Straightforward different – Rip open a packet of crispy fried shallots and sprinkle! They’re an ideal different – salty, crispy little pops of goodness. Pantry staple in my world – I take advantage of them so usually, I even wrote a publish about them!
Garlic infused oil
To get some pretty garlic flavour into this dish, I’ve opted for garlic infused oil. I desire this to, say, mixing garlic into the dressing (which generally is a little too harsh for delicate dishes like this). Garlic chips are a preferred garnish possibility at eating places, however once more, I additionally discover that the flavour generally is a little too sturdy for this dish. However you do find yourself with crispy garlic chips, so be at liberty to make use of them!
Right here’s what it’s essential to make the garlic infused oil:
The way to make beef tataki
Don’t be daunted by the step images, it’s not exhausting. I’m simply being beneficiant with explanations as a result of it’s a particular dish! And bear in mind, in its easiest type: prepare dinner a steak, slice it, and serve with one of many easy Asian dressings listed above. Monday Evening Tataki is so good!
1. The way to prepare dinner the meat for tataki
You will see that typical recipes name for beef tenderloin simply to be pan seared briefly, which leaves the centre solely uncooked. I desire uncommon slightly than uncooked beef for tataki, and to minimise the overcooked band of beef, I take advantage of a slow-roasted-reverse-seared methodology. See FAQ for extra data on uncommon vs uncooked, and this methodology of cooking.
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Sluggish roast beef – Rub the meat with somewhat oil and sprinkle of salt. Then roast* for round 20 minutes at a low temperature (130°C / 275°F^) or till the interior temperature is 41°C / 105°F. To be secure, examine first after quarter-hour. The interior temperature will rise to 49-51°C/120-124°F because it rests, which is uncommon.
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Sear – As quickly as the meat is prepared, sear it for simply 10 seconds on 4 sides in a smoking scorching skillet. This seals the surface and provides it some good color.
* Use a rack set on a tray to permit the warmth to flow into evenly across the beef so it cooks by extra evenly.
^ Sometimes, oven temperatures for fan-forced ovens is 20°C decrease than commonplace ovens. Nonetheless, at decrease temperatures, this adjustment will not be at all times vital.
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Cool – Switch the meat to a rack set over a tray. Cool on the counter for half-hour then refrigerate, uncovered, for two hours (as much as 8 hours). Chilly beef = simpler to slice thinly.
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Slice – If you end up able to serve, finely slice the meat. Purpose for 3mm / 1/16″ thick slices however as much as 5mm / 1/8″ is ok. Don’t fret should you tear or the sides crumble. As soon as it’s plated up, sauced and garnished, you’ll be able to’t inform!
2. Garlic infused oil
Right here is now to make the garlic infused oil. There’s a very good quantity of garlic for only a little bit of oil, so that you get actually good however easy garlic flavour that enhances with out overwhelming the dish. Uncooked garlic in any type is somewhat harsh for a fragile dish like tataki, I discover.
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Simmer & infuse – Place the garlic and oil in a tiny saucepan over low warmth. Simmer for five minutes till the garlic is pale golden. Then flip the range off and depart the oil to infuse for quarter-hour (the garlic will get somewhat extra golden).
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Pressure oil right into a small bowl. Reserve garlic chips for one more use (salad, poke bowl, noodles, fried rice!).
3. Yuzu dressing
The dressing has mirin and sake in it, in order that they should be simmered briefly to take away the alcohol (else they style somewhat too “winey”).
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Simmer the mirin and sake for 1 minute in a tiny saucepan.
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Combine – Let it cool for a couple of minutes, then combine with the remaining Dressing elements.
4. Crispy potato straws (pommes paille)
See the separate recipe for the complete Crispy Potato Straws steps. In abstract:
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Julienne potato – Use a julienne mandolin to chop the potato. it additional crisp)
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Fry – Then fry for simply 1 1/2 to 2 minutes till golden and crispy. How straightforward it that!
Storage: This stays 100% crispy for five days. Make an enormous batch and munch on them like french fry crisps!
Plating up
OK, able to assemble!
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Beef slices – Use a knife to fastidiously switch the meat slices onto a plate. Lay them so they’re overlapping barely in any sample you need. Don’t fear if they appear a bit scruffy! As soon as it’s dressed, you’ll be able to’t inform!
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Drizzle about 3 to 4 tablespoons of dressing over, getting some on each slice of beef with extra pooling across the edges. Don’t skimp on sauce! Then drizzle over about 1 to 1 1/2 tablespoons of the garlic oil.
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Pile a mound of the crispy potato straws within the center. Pile excessive! Serve leftover potato straws on the aspect. They are going to disappear quick!
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Eat! Serve instantly, don’t depart it sitting round as soon as dressed as the meat will weep and dilute the sauce.
the right way to make monday-night steak tataki
Should you don’t have time to attend for the steak to chill, serve it heat. It’s nonetheless soooo good!
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Cook dinner steak – Cook dinner the steak to your liking in a screaming scorching forged iron pan. Eating places sometimes prepare dinner it to uncommon (typically uncooked!) however you’ll be able to prepare dinner it to your liking. (Notice: The extra nicely executed the steak is, the more durable it’s to chop into advantageous slices because the meat is extra liable to breaking). See the cooked temperature of steak within the recipe notes.
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Slice – Relaxation then cool the steak for at the very least 1 hour, if time permits. Cool steak = simpler to chop thinly. Although having stated that, heat beef tataki is gorgeous!
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Plate up – Lay the steak in a line, overlapping barely or simply lined up subsequent to one another.
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Sauce and garnish – Drizzle with sauce and oil of alternative (see Substances part above for straightforward Monday evening choices). Sprinkle with crispy fried shallots and inexperienced onion. Then serve!
The way to eat and serve Beef Tataki
Sometimes, you’ll see Beef Tataki as a starter on restaurant menus or as a part of a multi-course banquet. And whereas it’s too expensive to think about as a essential when eating out, it’s inside attain when consuming in! Serve it alongside a leafy Asian Salad or Slaw with fried rice or garlic rice, and you’ve got your self a stunning trendy Asian meal.
As for the right way to eat it? (And sure, I completely realise how odd it sounds to incorporate instructions for the right way to eat beef tataki however I really feel it’s my responsibility to make sure that with every bit of beef, you get a little bit of the toppings (particularly should you’ve made the crispy potato straws!) and also you squidge each bit of beef within the sauce earlier than placing it in your mouth.
Squidging is vital! Promise me you gained’t overlook! – Nagi x
PS Reminder – this recipe options as a part of my particular fusion Japanese menu! Designed particularly with practicality in thoughts with a lot of it make-head.
Beef Tataki – Often requested questions
Fish tataki (tuna is fashionable) is a standard Japanese dish. Beef Tataki is a bit more frequent lately in Japan but it surely’s thought of a extra trendy Japanese dish. However outdoors of Japan, each fish and beef are fairly fashionable. For my mom’s conventional Japanese Tuna Tataki recipe, see right here (on RecipeTin Japan).
I personally desire uncommon beef tataki slightly than uncooked. Eating places serve it each methods, although if it’s not paper skinny (which could be very exhausting for house cooks to attain) it’s sometimes served uncommon slightly than uncooked.
I take pleasure in uncooked beef for dishes like carpaccio and steak tartare the place the meat is finely chopped / sliced or pounded paper skinny. Beef tataki slices are a bit thicker – round 3 – 5 mm – so I desire it to be uncommon.
I realise a number of millimetres sounds minuscule, but it surely actually does make the distinction! A bit an excessive amount of of a mouthful of uncooked meat sensation if it’s totally uncommon inside, as many recipes appear to direct. I do know, I’m sooo explicit! 😂
Each beef tenderloin and steak is used for beef tataki. Typically at eating places, you’ll see premium steaks used (wagyu is a agency favorite). Thick lower steak is finest. For a sublime house model, I go for beef tenderloin. I like how tender it’s, and that you just get a bigger floor uncommon of gorgeous uncommon beef and a smaller band of overcooked beef. Nonetheless, I don’t hesitate to make tataki with any steak!
Should you don’t have a meat thermometer, I like to recommend utilizing the simpler steak possibility slightly than the meat tenderloin. It’s simply too dangerous utilizing a premium lower of beef and making an attempt to guess the right inside temperature for uncommon beef. It’s simpler to prepare dinner a steak to uncommon as you’ll be able to inform by contact.
I like to recommend utilizing steak as a substitute as a result of it is rather exhausting to slice tenderloin thinly whether it is cooked past uncommon, the advantageous slices break fairly simply, as a result of the floor space of the meat is bigger. I discovered this out first hand myself once I by accident overcooked the meat to medium!
You gained’t have this drawback with steak as a result of the slices you’re reducing will probably be smaller. Typically, it’s a lot simpler to finely slice a steak slightly than a tenderloin.
As famous above, I desire my beef uncommon slightly than uncooked for beef tataki. Should you solely sear beef tenderloin, the within is totally uncooked.
To prepare dinner beef tenderloin so it’s uncommon from edge to edge, gradual roasting at a low temperature is finest (it nonetheless solely takes 20 minutes). The upper the temperature, the thicker the band of overcooked beef and the upper the chance of by accident cooking it an excessive amount of (the window of time to get the interior temperature proper is way smaller at larger temperatures).
Additionally, the thicker the outer band of cooked beef, the more durable it’s to finely slice because it crumbles.
So, after making an attempt a handful of strategies, I discovered gradual roasting to be the simplest, low-risk methodology that yields the most effective outcomes for edge-to-edge completely rare-not-raw beef with a really skinny seared crust (which accurately takes 10 seconds on the range). The decrease temperature roasting can also be the proved and much-loved methodology I take advantage of for premium cuts of roast beef together with prime rib (standing rib roast) and beef tenderloin roast.
The meat tenderloin must be cooked at the very least 3 hours forward to present it adequate time to relax within the fridge which makes it simpler to chop into advantageous slices. The morning of for a dinner serving works nicely. I don’t advocate making it the day earlier than as a result of meat is rarely as juicy when refrigerated in a single day.
Steak doesn’t should be chilled as lengthy as a result of it’s thinner however as with tenderloins, it too could be made the morning of.
The dressing could be made the morning of (I discover the yuzu flavour fades if made too far forward) and the crispy potato straws could be made as much as 5 days forward. They keep 100% crisp!
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Beef Tataki
Prep: 20 minutes
Cook dinner: 30 minutes
Chilling / resting: 3 hours
Principal, Starter
fusion japanese, Fashionable Asian
Servings4
Faucet or hover to scale
Substances
Yuzu Dressing (Notice 3 different choices):
Garlic oil (non-compulsory, Notice 7)
Crispy topping choices – CHOOSE ONE
Directions
Beef tenderloin:
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Prep – Preheat the oven to 130°C / 275°F (all oven varieties). Rub the meat with the oil and sprinkle with salt. Place on a rack set on a tray.
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Roast for 18 – 20 minutes or till the interior temperature within the center is 41°C / 105°F (examine first at quarter-hour, Notice 9).
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Sear – Warmth a forged iron skillet on excessive warmth till it’s smoking. Sear both sides of the meat for simply 10 seconds, not (I do 4 sides).
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Cool – Switch the meat onto a rack on a tray. Cool for half-hour on the counter then refrigerate uncovered for two hours.
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Thinly slice – When able to serve, slice it as thinly as you’ll be able to with out tearing the meat, aiming for 3mm / 1/16″ however as much as 5mm / 1/8″ thick is ok. (Notice 10 for suggestions)
Yuzu dressing:
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Place the sake and mini in a tiny saucepan on low warmth. Convey to a simmer, then simmer for 1 minute. Pour right into a bowl, let it cool. Then stir in remaining dressing elements.
Garlic infused oil:
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Put the garlic and oil in a tiny saucepan on low warmth. Simmer for five minutes, stirring a number of instances, till the garlic is mild golden. Cool for quarter-hour then pressure (reserve crispy garlic for one more use)
Assemble:
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Plate up – Lay the meat slices on a plate, overlapping barely. Drizzle with 3-4 tbsp of the Dressing, then 1 1/2 tbsp of the garlic oil. Pile the crispy potato in a heap within the center, sprinkle with inexperienced onion. (Or use the straightforward steak garnish choices above as a substitute).
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To eat – Serve right away. Be sure to get some crispy potato in each chew, and squidge the meat round within the tasty sauce.
Straightforward steak possibility:
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Cook dinner – Rub the steak with the oil then sprinkle with the salt. Warmth a forged iron skillet on excessive warmth till it’s smoking. Cook dinner the steak to uncommon (1 1/2 – 2 minutes on both sides, however it’ll rely on thickness of steak), or to your style (Notice 11 for doneness). Cool & thinly slice steak per beef tenderloin steps above.
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Assemble – Place the slices in a line, barely overlapping. Drizzle over Dressing and oil (or different Sauce of alternative). Sprinkle crispy fried shallots down the centre then inexperienced onion. Serve!
Recipe Notes:
2. Steak possibility – Simpler to get, simpler to slice! Thicker lower is best, for extra uncommon beef.
3. Different Asian sauces that may work nicely right here (skip the garlic oil, these have already got oil in them):
4. Cooking sake and mirin – important cooking wines in Japanese cooking! Discover them within the Asian aisle of huge grocery shops, in addition to Asian shops. Should you can’t eat alcohol or discover them, use a sauces in Notice 3.
5. Soy sauce – sub any all-purpose or mild soy sauce, NOT darkish soy (too sturdy, will spoil!)
6. Yuzu is a Japanese citrus that’s bought in Japanese shops and a few Asian grocery shops. Substitute with equal elements lemon and lime, pretty comparable.
7. Garlic oil – Infused with pretty trace of garlic flavour. However non-compulsory! Substitute with 2 tsp sesame oil or additional virgin olive oil (completely works right here).
8. Curled inexperienced onion – finely slice on the diagonal then place in chilly water and put within the fridge for 15 to half-hour till it curls (more energizing = curls quicker, floppy and outdated = takes longer!). Then drain, dry and use.
9. Cook dinner instances – precise prepare dinner instances will fluctuate on account of many components so examine early. For uncommon beef, goal for 41°C / 105°F which is able to rise to 49-51°C/120-124°F (uncommon).
10. Slicing beef – Use a pointy knife and maintain the edges firmly as you slice (stops edges crumbling). Slice as thinly as you’ll be able to with out tearing the meat. Don’t fret should you do, as soon as the plate is all dressed up, you’ll be able to’t see tears! In case your slices are on the thicker aspect, don’t fear, it’s nonetheless actually tasty, you simply find yourself with much less slices.
11. Steak doneness:
Make forward – The Dressing could be made 12 hours forward (yuzu loses freshness with time), Crispy Potato Straws stays crisp 3 – 4 days, garlic oil retains 3 days. Beef could be made the morning of to serve that evening (if left in a single day, meat does lose some juiciness).
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