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 method!
This recipe is among the mains within the fusion Japanese banquet menu I shared yesterday, pictured under.
Beef tataki
Tataki is a Japanese dish the place a protein (normally fish or beef) is briefly seared on the surface, thinly sliced then served with a citrusy sauce. It’s a well-liked starter at fashionable Asian eating places, the kind of meals that appeals to everybody – meat lovers in addition to those that benefit from the extra refined Asian fusion dishes (suppose: Spicy Tuna Crispy Rice Muffins, that kind of factor!).
But it surely’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 part else!), in comparison with round $20 – $28 for the components (the worth of beef is an enormous variable).
My mom is fast to level out that beef tataki just isn’t conventional, you solely discover fish tataki in Japan (right here’s her Tuna Tataki recipe). So beef tataki recipe falls exterior the area of RecipeTin Japan (“genuine Japanese recipes”) which supplies me the uncommon alternative to publish a Japanese recipe. Albeit a contemporary one. I’ll take that!
Select: Restaurant v Monday-night model
At this time, I’m sharing two variations of Beef Tataki.
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Restaurant: a copycat of beef tataki I’ve had at pretty fashionable 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 strategy 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 very best for serving in a fragile dish like tataki. Due to the form, you get a bigger space of lovely uncommon cooked crimson 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 massive thick blocks.
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Quick and fats – If yours is shorter than 11.5cm / 4.5″ (which suggests 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 strong outsides earlier than the within is semi-frozen).
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Trim to uniform thickness so the meat cooks by means of evenly.
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Weight – The recipe is written for a 250g/8oz piece however you should use a bigger piece if you want, there may be sufficient sauce.
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High quality – As a result of that is cooked to uncommon, I like to recommend getting 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. If you happen to use a cost-effective piece, I’d advocate cooking the meat to at the least medium uncommon and be ready to chop thicker slices (extra effectively executed = meat breaks extra simply when finely sliced). Additionally, use a much bigger piece as a result of thicker slices = much less slices!
steak possibility for tataki
In concept, you may 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 (often called 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 under (fats trimmed). It’s 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 received’t have massive chunks of chilly white fats.
yuzu dressing for tataki
Tataki is often served with a citrusy dressing. I’ve opted for a do-it-yourself ponzu-style sauce with the addition of Yuzu, a Japanese citrus which tastes like a mixture of lime and lemons (glorious subs!). The Yuzu provides this a contact of particular (eating places like it!) and distinct Japanese flavour.
Nevertheless, Beef Tataki is the kind of dish that may work with numerous Japanese/Asian model sauces so I’ve listed some various sauce choices under.
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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 nowadays, in addition to Asian shops. They add depth of flavour into this sauce. If you happen to can’t eat alcohol or discover them, counsel utilizing one of many alternate sauces listed under.
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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 function soy sauce. Don’t use darkish soy sauce (too intense, it’ll wreck the dressing).
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Yuzu – a distinctly Japanese citrus. Cooks undergo phases once they’re obsessive about this, with menus in every single place stuffed with Yuzu this and Yuzu that! Discover it in Asian and Japanese grocery shops, they’re bought in small bottles like pictured under. Substitute with equal elements lemon and lime juice (it’s truly not far off).
various sauces
In case you possibly can’t eat alcohol or can’t get all of the components for the Yuzu Dressing, listed below are various sauces/dressings that may even be terrific with beef tataki. If you happen to 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 effectively with these kind 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 proper garnish as a result of they’re delicately crisp and you may 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 various – Rip open a packet of crispy fried shallots and sprinkle! They’re an ideal various – salty, crispy little pops of goodness. Pantry staple in my world – I exploit 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 choose this to, say, mixing garlic into the dressing (which is usually a little too harsh for delicate dishes like this). Garlic chips are a well-liked garnish possibility at eating places, however once more, I additionally discover that the flavour is usually a little too robust 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 you’ll want to make the garlic infused oil:
The way to make beef tataki
Don’t be daunted by the step images, it’s not arduous. I’m simply being beneficiant with explanations as a result of it’s a particular dish! And keep in mind, in its easiest type: cook dinner a steak, slice it, and serve with one of many easy Asian dressings listed above. Monday Night time Tataki is so good!
1. The way to cook dinner the meat for tataki
You can see that typical recipes name for beef tenderloin simply to be pan seared briefly, which leaves the centre solely uncooked. I choose uncommon reasonably than uncooked beef for tataki, and to minimise the overcooked band of beef, I exploit a slow-roasted-reverse-seared technique. See FAQ for extra data on uncommon vs uncooked, and this technique of cooking.
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Sluggish roast beef – Rub the meat with a bit of oil and sprinkle of salt. Then roast* for round 20 minutes at a low temperature (130°C / 275°F^) or till the inner temperature is 41°C / 105°F. To be secure, examine first after quarter-hour. The inner 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 means of extra evenly.
^ Sometimes, oven temperatures for fan-forced ovens is 20°C decrease than customary ovens. Nevertheless, at decrease temperatures, this adjustment just isn’t at all times mandatory.
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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 find yourself able to serve, finely slice the meat. Goal for 3mm / 1/16″ thick slices however as much as 5mm / 1/8″ is ok. Don’t fret if you happen to tear or the sides crumble. As soon as it’s plated up, sauced and garnished, you possibly can’t inform!
2. Garlic infused oil
Right here is now to make the garlic infused oil. There’s 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 a bit of 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 a bit of extra golden).
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Pressure oil right into a small bowl. Reserve garlic chips for an additional use (salad, poke bowl, noodles, fried rice!).
3. Yuzu dressing
The dressing has mirin and sake in it, in order that they must be simmered briefly to take away the alcohol (else they style a bit of 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 components.
4. Crispy potato straws (pommes paille)
See the separate recipe for the total Crispy Potato Straws steps. In abstract:
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Julienne potato – Use a julienne mandolin to chop the potato. it further 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 rigorously 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 possibly can’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 may 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.
how you can make monday-night steak tataki
If you happen to don’t have time to attend for the steak to chill, serve it heat. It’s nonetheless soooo good!
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Prepare dinner steak – Prepare dinner the steak to your liking in a screaming scorching forged iron pan. Eating places sometimes cook dinner it to uncommon (typically uncooked!) however you possibly can cook dinner it to your liking. (Be aware: The extra effectively executed the steak is, the more durable it’s to chop into nice 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 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 selection (see Substances part above for simple 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 contemplate as a fundamental 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 fashionable Asian meal.
As for how you can eat it? (And sure, I completely realise how odd it sounds to incorporate instructions for how you can 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 if you happen to’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 essential! Promise me you received’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 – Steadily requested questions
Fish tataki (tuna is widespread) is a standard Japanese dish. Beef Tataki is a bit more frequent nowadays in Japan however it’s thought of a extra fashionable Japanese dish. However exterior of Japan, each fish and beef are fairly widespread. For my mom’s conventional Japanese Tuna Tataki recipe, see right here (on RecipeTin Japan).
I personally choose uncommon beef tataki reasonably than uncooked. Eating places serve it each methods, although if it’s not paper skinny (which could be very arduous for residence cooks to realize) it’s sometimes served uncommon reasonably 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 choose it to be uncommon.
I realise a number of millimetres sounds minuscule, however it 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 specific! 😂
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 residence model, I go for beef tenderloin. I like how tender it’s, and that you just get a bigger floor uncommon of lovely uncommon beef and a smaller band of overcooked beef. Nevertheless, I don’t hesitate to make tataki with any steak!
If you happen to don’t have a meat thermometer, I like to recommend utilizing the better steak possibility reasonably than the meat tenderloin. It’s simply too dangerous utilizing a premium lower of beef and making an attempt to guess the proper inner temperature for uncommon beef. It’s simpler to cook dinner a steak to uncommon as you possibly can inform by contact.
I like to recommend utilizing steak as an alternative as a result of it is vitally arduous to slice tenderloin thinly whether it is cooked past uncommon, the nice 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 received’t have this drawback with steak as a result of the slices you might be reducing shall be smaller. Typically, it’s a lot simpler to finely slice a steak reasonably than a tenderloin.
As famous above, I choose my beef uncommon reasonably than uncooked for beef tataki. If you happen to solely sear beef tenderloin, the within is totally uncooked.
To cook dinner beef tenderloin so it’s uncommon from edge to edge, sluggish 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 inner temperature proper is far 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 sluggish roasting to be the best, low-risk technique 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 technique I exploit 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 least 3 hours forward to offer it enough time to relax within the fridge which makes it simpler to chop into nice slices. The morning of for a dinner serving works effectively. 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 must be chilled as lengthy as a result of it’s thinner however as with tenderloins, it too will be made the morning of.
The dressing will be made the morning of (I discover the yuzu flavour fades if made too far forward) and the crispy potato straws will be made as much as 5 days forward. They keep 100% crisp!
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Beef Tataki
Prep: 20 minutes
Prepare dinner: 30 minutes
Chilling / resting: 3 hours
Essential, Starter
fusion japanese, Trendy Asian
Servings4
Faucet or hover to scale
Substances
Yuzu Dressing (Be aware 3 different choices):
Garlic oil (elective, Be aware 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 inner temperature within the center is 41°C / 105°F (examine first at quarter-hour, Be aware 9).
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Sear – Warmth a forged iron skillet on excessive warmth till it’s smoking. Sear all 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 possibly can with out tearing the meat, aiming for 3mm / 1/16″ however as much as 5mm / 1/8″ thick is ok. (Be aware 10 for ideas)
Yuzu dressing:
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Place the sake and mini in a tiny saucepan on low warmth. Carry to a simmer, then simmer for 1 minute. Pour right into a bowl, let it cool. Then stir in remaining dressing components.
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 an additional 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 simple steak garnish choices above as an alternative).
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To eat – Serve immediately. Ensure you get some crispy potato in each chew, and squidge the meat round within the tasty sauce.
Straightforward steak possibility:
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Prepare dinner – Rub the steak with the oil then sprinkle with the salt. Warmth a forged iron skillet on excessive warmth till it’s smoking. Prepare dinner the steak to uncommon (1 1/2 – 2 minutes on all sides, however it’ll rely upon thickness of steak), or to your style (Be aware 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 various Sauce of selection). 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 healthier, for extra uncommon beef.
3. Different Asian sauces that may work effectively 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. If you happen to can’t eat alcohol or discover them, use a sauces in Be aware 3.
5. Soy sauce – sub any all-purpose or mild soy sauce, NOT darkish soy (too robust, will wreck!)
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 related.
7. Garlic oil – Infused with pretty trace of garlic flavour. However elective! Substitute with 2 tsp sesame oil or further 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. Prepare dinner instances – actual cook dinner instances will fluctuate attributable to many components so examine early. For uncommon beef, goal for 41°C / 105°F which can rise to 49-51°C/120-124°F (uncommon).
10. Slicing beef – Use a pointy knife and maintain the perimeters firmly as you slice (stops edges crumbling). Slice as thinly as you possibly can with out tearing the meat. Don’t fret if you happen to do, as soon as the plate is all dressed up, you possibly can’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 will be made 12 hours forward (yuzu loses freshness with time), Crispy Potato Straws stays crisp 3 – 4 days, garlic oil retains 3 days. Beef will be made the morning of to serve that evening (if left in a single day, meat does lose some juiciness).
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