rice cakes & ground meat with sticky sauce

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ingredients:

• 2 square mochi rice cakes
• 3 1/2 ounces ground pork or chicken　
• 1 teaspoon grated ginger
• 1 1/2 teaspoons soy sauce
• 1/2 teaspoon sugar
• 1/2 cup water
• 1/2 tablespoon potato starch (katakuriko)
• 1/2 tablespoon water (for dissolving potato starch)
• 1 teaspoon water (for pouring over rice cakes)

step 1:

Place the water in a pot. Add the ground meat, grated ginger, sugar and soy sauce. Simmer for about 3 minutes on medium-low heat.

step 2:

Place the rice cakes on a plate. Pour the 1 teaspoon of water over them. Warm them in the microwave at 600 W for 1 minute 30 seconds.

step 3:

Cut each rice cake into bite-size pieces.

step 4:

Add the mochi to Step 1. Mix a couple of times and bring to a boil.

step 5:

Dissolve the potato starch in the 1/2 tablespoon of water. Add the dissolved potato starch to the pot. Stir a few times until it becomes creamy.