Japanese Hamburger Steak 和風ハンバーグ
A Hamburger Steak for Salisbury Steak Recipe with a Japanese twist. Japanese hamburger steak is so soft and juicy because of the secret ingredients added. Discover how the Japanese make hamburger steak with step by step photo instruction and a video.
- Prep time
- 15 min
- Cook time
- 15 min
- Yield
- 6 servings
- Difficulty
- HARD
Ingredients
Quantities are shown as originally provided.
- 1/2 of middle size onion (finely chopped)
- 1 tbsp vegetable oil
- 8 oz Silken tofu
- 1 egg
- 1 cup panko crumbs (*2 )
- 10 oz Beef and Pork ground meat (*1 or 300g all together)
- 1/2 tsp salt
- 1/4 tsp pepper
- 1/4 tsp nutmeg
- 1 tbsp vegetable oil
- 2 tbsp Butter
- 4 tbsp Tomato ketchup
- 2 tbsp Worstershire sauce
- 3 tbsp sake
- 2 tsp mirin
Instructions
- 1
Heat the oil in a frying pan and cook finely chopped onion until it caramelized. Let is cool completely.
- 2
Boil water in a small saucepan and cook tofu for 5 minutes.
- 3
Drain the cooking water and wrap the tofu with a sheet of kitchen paper.
- 4
Place a small plate over the wrapped tofu and leave it for 5 minutes.
- 5
Add the panko to the bowl and add beaten egg to the bowl.
- 6
Add tofu by breaking it into small pieces with your hands.
- 7
Add ground beef and pork, cooked and cooled onion to the mixing bowl.
- 8
Knead all the ingredients with your hands until the mixture becomes uniform in colour and pasty.
- 9
Divide the mixture into six equal portions.
- 10
Roll the mixture into oval shaped patties.
- 11
Toss the patties between your hands firmly several times to remove any air pockets out of the patties.
- 12
Flatten the patties to about 0.8 inch (2cm) thick each and set aside.
- 13
Heat 1 tbsp oil in a frying pan over med to high heat.
- 14
Place the meat patties in the pan and cook until one side is browned.
- 15
Turn the patties over and cook other side till brown.
- 16
While the patties are frying, mix together all the sauce ingredients in a bowl and set aside.
- 17
Once the patties are fully cooked remove them from the pan and set them aside on a plate then cook the sauce in the pan. *3
- 18
Heat the butter in the same saucepan, once the butter melts, add all sauce ingredients into the pan and bring it to simmer.
- 19
Place the cooked patties back into the frying pan and coat with the sauce.
- 20
Serve the Japanese hamburger steak with vegetables or sides you like, then drizzle the sauce on top.