Tofu-Hida-Wagyu Beef Hamburger with Red Wine Kuwayaki Sauce with Boiled Broccoli, Carrots and Sauteed Eggplant and Zucchini. You can use any vegetables you like.
Make a hollow in the meat with your fingers by pressing.
Last year I offered an Online Cooking Lesson 1: Pan-Fried Chicken with Kuwayaki BBQ Sauce. At 5 pm Japan time, Saturday 31 July 2021, we will be making Tofu-Beef Hamburgers with red wine and Kuwayaki BBQ Sauce. The sauce goes well with the hamburgers and boiled rice.
Ingredients: Serves 2
30g Panko, bread crumbs
4 tablespoons milk
300g minced beef
80g tofu (momen tofu, hard one with less water)
Half a teaspoon salt
Black pepper as needed
Nutmeg as needed
2 cloves of garlic (diced)
20g ginger (peeled and diced)
Half an onion (diced)
Vegetable oil as needed
To thicken the sauce: 2 teaspoons cornflour (or potato starch), 2 teaspoons water
To make red wine Kuwasaki BBQ sauce, combine 2 tbs red wine, 2tbs sake, 2tbs koikuchi-soy sauce, 2tbs mirin, 1 tablespoon honey
6 stems of broccoli (boiled)
1 carrot (cut into 1cm medallions and boiled)
1 bell pepper (cut into 4 equal parts lengthwise and stir-fry as you cook the hamburgers in a frying pan.)
Method:
1. Wrap the tofu with sarashi, or clean cheesecloth and squeeze the water. (Shuji will soon add pictures to show you this process.)
When the excess water of tofu is squeezed, unwrap the cheesecloth and mash the tofu.
2. Soak the bread crumbs in milk.
3. Stir fry the diced garlic, ginger and onions in vegetable oil until the onions are transparent. Set aside to cool off.
4. Add a pinch of salt, black pepper and nutmeg to the minced meat and mix well by hand in a mixing bowl until it gets sticky.
5. Add the stir-fried garlic, ginger and onions to the minced meat, and mix well by hand. In a separate mixing bowl, add the soaked bread crumbs to the mashed tofu and mix well. Add it to the mixed minced meat and mix well.
6. Shape the minced meat into hamburgers. Put them in the fridge whilst preparing the vegetables. Cut all the vegetables into bite sizes and boil them in salted water. (It is all up to you what vegetables you like to eat, how you cut them and how you want to cook them.)
7. Heat the frying pan with minimum vegetable oil (tasty oil comes out of the hamburgers as you cook), put the hamburgers into the pan, and cook on medium heat for about 2-3 minutes. Turn the hamburgers over and cook the other side for about 3 minutes.
8. Plate the hamburgers with the cooked vegetables. Thicken the sauce with the cornflour and water mixture. Pour the sauce over the hamburgers. Serve with miso soup and boiled rice if you like.