DISH RESEARCH · Main dish
Hambagu
Also known as: Hambāgu, Japanese Hamburger Steak
Namiko Hirasawa Chen’s selected hambagu combines ground beef and pork with onion, panko, milk, egg and seasonings. The browned patties cook with wine and receive an own butter, ketchup, tonkatsu-sauce and separate red-wine reduction made in their drippings.
About Hambagu
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Chen’s hambagu makes Japanese hamburger steaks from a selected two-to-one blend of ground beef and pork. Cooked onion, panko, milk and egg join the meat, and an own red-wine reduction sauce finishes the patties.
Minced onion softens in oil and cools before joining the beef and pork. Salt, pepper, nutmeg, breadcrumbs, milk and egg are worked into a pale, sticky mixture.
The mixture is divided into four oval patties and tossed between the hands to release trapped air. After chilling, each patty is indented in the centre and browned on both sides in a separate portion of oil.
Red wine is added for the covered cooking stage. The patties move to serving plates while their pan drippings remain for a sauce of butter, ketchup, tonkatsu sauce, a separate wine portion and a little water.
Some thickened sauce is drizzled over the steaks, with the rest brought to the table. Chen describes hambagu as a Japanese western-style restaurant and home dish, usually accompanied by rice rather than enclosed in a bun.
Ingredients in Hambagu
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- Breadcrumbsbase
- Demi-glace saucesauce
- Eggbase
- Ground Beefprotein
- Onionbase
- Vegetable Oilcooking medium
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Origins & food traditions
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- Countries & places
- Japan
- Cooking traditions
- Japanese
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