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garlic soy sauce flavored-hamburgers

Garlic Soy Sauce Flavored-Hamburgers
Ingredients Ingredients

ingredients:

  • 400 g ground beef
  • 400 g onion
  • 1 egg
  • 4 hamburger buns
  • 45 g lettuce
  • 4 slices tomato
  • 3 garlic cloves
  • a little salt
  • a little pepper
  • 1 teaspoon nutmeg
  • 3 tablespoons salad oil
  • 3 tablespoons bread crumbs
  • 4 teaspoons soy sauce
  • 2 teaspoons potato starch (katakuriko)
  • 2 teaspoons water (for dissolving potato starch)
Step 1

step 1:

Chop the onion. Heat 1 tablespoon of the salad oil in a frying pan over a medium flame and sear the onion. After it becomes clear, remove from the heat and cool for more than 20 minutes.

Step 2

step 2:

Beat the egg and mix with the ground beef, seared onion, bread crumbs, salt, pepper and nutmeg in a big bowl. Form into 4 balls and flatten into patties.

Step 3

step 3:

Heat 1 tablespoon of oil in the frying pan over a medium flame and add the patties. Cover and sear the patties for a couple of minutes.

Step 4

step 4:

After they change color, sear the opposite side for a couple of minutes. Remove from the heat. Place the patties on a large plate.

Step 5

step 5:

Dissolve the potato starch in the water. Chop the garlic. Heat the remaining tablespoon of oil in the frying pan on low heat and add the garlic. Stir until it becomes fragrant and add the soy sauce. Mix in the dissolved potato starch. Stir a couple of times until it becomes a thickened sauce. Remove from the heat.

Step 6

step 6:

Wash the lettuce and tear into pieces. Place the lettuce and hamburger steaks on the buns and pour the thickened garlic soy sauce over the hamburger steaks.

Step 7

step 7:

Place the tomato slices on top, and cover with the second bun halves.

Ninniku-shōyu-aji no hambāgā

comment:

The sharp taste of the garlic soy sauce goes well with hamburger steak. The combination of all the ingredients is tasty and just right.

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