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 without doubt one of 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 skin, thinly sliced then served with a citrusy sauce. It’s a well-liked starter at fashionable Asian eating places, the type 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 Truffles, that type of factor!).
However it’s dish you pay dearly for, round $30 for a small serving (6 to eight slices) at increased finish eating places. So the plate pictured on this put up would price round $80 at a restaurant (plus parking plus wine plus all the pieces else!), in comparison with round $20 – $28 for the substances (the worth of beef is a giant 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 outdoors the area of RecipeTin Japan (“genuine Japanese recipes”) which provides me the uncommon alternative to put up a Japanese recipe. Albeit a contemporary one. I’ll take that!
Select: Restaurant v Monday-night model
In the present day, I’m sharing two variations of Beef Tataki.
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Restaurant: a copycat of beef tataki I’ve had at beautiful 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 likewise 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 night time possibility. So take your decide!
BEEF TENDERLOIN
Beef tenderloin is a lean, tender lower of beef which makes it ideally suited for serving in a fragile dish like tataki. Due to the form, you get a bigger space of gorgeous uncommon cooked purple 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 chunk 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 implies it’s wider), lower it in half horizontally to kind 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 means of evenly.
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Weight – The recipe is written for a 250g/8oz piece however you need to 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 a superb 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. In case you use a cheap piece, I’d advocate cooking the meat to a minimum of medium uncommon and be ready to chop thicker slices (extra effectively finished = 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 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 beneath (fats trimmed). It’s a superb 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 likewise they’re comparatively lean so that you gained’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 mix of lime and lemons (wonderful subs!). The Yuzu provides this a contact of particular (eating places like it!) and distinct Japanese flavour.
Nonetheless, Beef Tataki is the type of dish that may work with numerous Japanese/Asian model sauces so I’ve listed some various 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 enormous grocery shops nowadays, in addition to Asian shops. They add depth of flavour into this sauce. In case you can’t devour 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 gentle soy sauce or all function soy sauce. Don’t use darkish soy sauce (too intense, it’s going to destroy the dressing).
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Yuzu – a distinctly Japanese citrus. Cooks undergo phases after they’re obsessive about this, with menus in every single place crammed with Yuzu this and Yuzu that! Discover it in Asian and Japanese grocery shops, they’re offered in small bottles like pictured beneath. Substitute with equal components lemon and lime juice (it’s really not far off).
various sauces
In case you may’t devour alcohol or can’t get all of the substances for the Yuzu Dressing, listed here are various sauces/dressings that can even be terrific with beef tataki. In case 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 all the time works effectively with these type 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 may pile them up excessive so 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 typically, I even wrote a put up about them!
Garlic infused oil
To get some beautiful garlic flavour into this dish, I’ve opted for garlic infused oil. I favor this to, say, mixing garlic into the dressing (which generally is 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 generally is a little too robust for this dish. However you do find yourself with crispy garlic chips, so be happy to make use of them!
Right here’s what you have to make the garlic infused oil:
Tips on how to make beef tataki
Don’t be daunted by the step images, it’s not onerous. I’m simply being beneficiant with explanations as a result of it’s a particular dish! And bear in mind, in its easiest kind: 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. Tips on how to cook dinner the meat for tataki
You will discover that typical recipes name for beef tenderloin simply to be pan seared briefly, which leaves the centre solely uncooked. I favor uncommon relatively 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 info on uncommon vs uncooked, and this technique of cooking.
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Gradual 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 inner temperature is 41°C / 105°F. To be protected, test 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 sizzling skillet. This seals the skin and offers 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 normal ovens. Nonetheless, at decrease temperatures, this adjustment just isn’t all the time obligatory.
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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 when you tear or the sides crumble. As soon as it’s plated up, sauced and garnished, you may’t inform!
2. Garlic infused oil
Right here is now to make the garlic infused oil. There’s a superb quantity of garlic for only a little bit of oil, so that you get actually good however clean garlic flavour that enhances with out overwhelming the dish. Uncooked garlic in any kind 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 go away 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, so 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 substances.
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 a giant 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 may’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 facet. They’ll disappear quick!
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Eat! Serve instantly, don’t go away it sitting round as soon as dressed as the meat will weep and dilute the sauce.
the way to make monday-night steak tataki
In case 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 sizzling forged iron pan. Eating places usually cook dinner it to uncommon (typically uncooked!) however you may cook dinner it to your liking. (Be aware: The extra effectively finished the steak is, the tougher it’s to chop into fantastic slices because the meat is extra susceptible to breaking). See the cooked temperature of steak within the recipe notes.
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Slice – Relaxation then cool the steak for a minimum of 1 hour, if time permits. Cool steak = simpler to chop thinly. Although having mentioned that, heat beef tataki is beautiful!
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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 night time choices). Sprinkle with crispy fried shallots and inexperienced onion. Then serve!
Tips on how 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 dear to contemplate as a most important 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 beautiful fashionable Asian meal.
As for the way to eat it? (And sure, I completely realise how odd it sounds to incorporate instructions for the 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 when you’ve made the crispy potato straws!) and also you squidge every bit of beef within the sauce earlier than placing it in your mouth.
Squidging is essential! 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 – Ceaselessly requested questions
Fish tataki (tuna is fashionable) is a standard Japanese dish. Beef Tataki is a bit more widespread nowadays in Japan but it surely’s thought-about a extra fashionable 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 favor uncommon beef tataki relatively than uncooked. Eating places serve it each methods, although if it’s not paper skinny (which could be very onerous for residence cooks to attain) it’s usually served uncommon relatively 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 favor it to be uncommon.
I realise just a few 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 absolutely 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 simply 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!
In case you don’t have a meat thermometer, I like to recommend utilizing the better steak possibility relatively than the meat tenderloin. It’s simply too dangerous utilizing a premium lower of beef and attempting to guess the right inner temperature for uncommon beef. It’s simpler to cook dinner a steak to uncommon as you may inform by contact.
I like to recommend utilizing steak as a substitute as a result of it is vitally onerous to slice tenderloin thinly whether it is cooked past uncommon, the fantastic slices break fairly simply, as a result of the floor space of the meat is bigger. I discovered this out first hand myself after I by accident overcooked the meat to medium!
You gained’t have this downside with steak as a result of the slices you might be reducing will likely be smaller. Typically, it’s a lot simpler to finely slice a steak relatively than a tenderloin.
As famous above, I favor my beef uncommon relatively than uncooked for beef tataki. In case you solely sear beef tenderloin, the within is totally uncooked.
To cook 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 inner temperature proper is way smaller at increased temperatures).
Additionally, the thicker the outer band of cooked beef, the tougher it’s to finely slice because it crumbles.
So, after attempting a handful of strategies, I discovered gradual roasting to be the simplest, 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 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 a minimum of 3 hours forward to present it adequate time to sit back within the fridge which makes it simpler to chop into fantastic 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 should be chilled as lengthy as a result of it’s thinner however as with tenderloins, it too may be made the morning of.
The dressing may be made the morning of (I discover the yuzu flavour fades if made too far forward) and the crispy potato straws may 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
Primary, Starter
fusion japanese, Trendy Asian
Servings4
Faucet or hover to scale
Substances
Yuzu Dressing (Be aware 3 different choices):
Garlic oil (optionally available, 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 (test 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 both sides of the meat for simply 10 seconds, now 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 may with out tearing the meat, aiming for 3mm / 1/16″ however as much as 5mm / 1/8″ thick is ok. (Be aware 10 for suggestions)
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 substances.
Garlic infused oil:
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Put the garlic and oil in a tiny saucepan on low warmth. Simmer for five minutes, stirring just a few occasions, till the garlic is gentle 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 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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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’s going to rely on 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 enormous grocery shops, in addition to Asian shops. In case you can’t devour alcohol or discover them, use a sauces in Be aware 3.
5. Soy sauce – sub any all-purpose or gentle soy sauce, NOT darkish soy (too robust, will destroy!)
6. Yuzu is a Japanese citrus that’s offered in Japanese shops and a few Asian grocery shops. Substitute with equal components lemon and lime, pretty related.
7. Garlic oil – Infused with beautiful trace of garlic flavour. However optionally available! 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 (brisker = curls quicker, floppy and previous = takes longer!). Then drain, dry and use.
9. Cook dinner occasions – precise cook dinner occasions will fluctuate as a result of many components so test early. For uncommon beef, intention 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 perimeters firmly as you slice (stops edges crumbling). Slice as thinly as you may with out tearing the meat. Don’t fret when you do, as soon as the plate is all dressed up, you may’t see tears! In case your slices are on the thicker facet, don’t fear, it’s nonetheless actually tasty, you simply find yourself with much less slices.
11. Steak doneness:
Make forward – The Dressing may be made 12 hours forward (yuzu loses freshness with time), Crispy Potato Straws stays crisp 3 – 4 days, garlic oil retains 3 days. Beef may be made the morning of to serve that night time (if left in a single day, meat does lose some juiciness).
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