Japanese Hamburger Steak, Onion Soup with White Rice

There are some typos and tweaks in the recipe.

So I have noted down the followings.

Hamburger steak

Ingredients:

Minced pork 100g 

Minced beef 50g

Onion, halved, chopped

Egg, half (30g)

2 tbs Bread crumbs

Dash of Salt

Dash of Pepper

Dash of Nutmeg

1/2 tbs Cooking oil

Method (yields 2 patties):

1. Microwave onion for 1min.
2. Mix all ingredients together.
3. Split the meat mixture into 2 portion and mold it into round shape.
4. Squeeze the meat and throw onto palm a few times.
5. Heat the pan, add in cooking oil.
6. Pan fried each side of patties till brown color (approx 1-2min each side), no need to be fully cook.
7. Dish out and leave aside.

Tip and tricks:

1. Original recipe yields mixture of beef and pork. I prefer using more pork than beef.
2. If using japanese onion, do not need to microwave before adding into meat mixture. This step is for local onion as it is more spicy.
3. I do not have nutmeg and I substitute it with coriander powder.

Stewed sauce

Ingredients:

3 tbs cake flour

10g butter

1/4 onion, sliced

Mix together

200g water

1/2 tsp chicken stock powder

2.5tbs worchester sauce

1 tbs ketchup

Method:

1. Fried the cake flour in pan till brown in color, dish out.
2. Add in butter, onions and fried till onion softened,
3. Add in cake flour slowly and stir evenly.
4. Add in water mixture.
5. When boiled, add in meat patties, covered and simmer for 5mins.
6. Dish out the patties.
7. If sauce is not thick enough, simmer a little longer.

Tips and tricks:

1. I substitute worchester sauce with Lee & Perins sauce.
2. Original recipe yields 2 tbs ketchup but I prefer not too sour.

White Rice

Ingredients:

140g japanese rice

155g water

Parsley (dried), optional

Method (yields 2 small portion):

1. Wash and polish the rice a few times.
2. Soak rice for 30mins.
3. Strain out water.
4. Add rice and water into pot, covered.
5. Turn on high heat.
6. When boiled, immediately turn to low heat for 10mins.
7. Done and dish out.

Tips and tricks:

1. Timing for cooking rice very important.
2. Do not open the lip during cooking.
3. Non stick pan is better.

Onion Soup

Ingredients:

1/2 Onion, sliced

400g water 

1tsp chicken stock powder

Dash of salt

Dash of pepper

Method (yields 2 bowls):

1. Add all ingredients into pot and bring to boil.
2. When boiled, turn to medium heat for 10mins.
3. Add in salt and pepper to taste.