How to Cook Japanese Hamburg Steaks

Thursday, September 1, 2022

How to Cook Japanese Hamburg Steaks

How to Cook Japanese Hamburg Steak

Last month, I cooked Japanese hamburg steaks. Hamburg (ハンバーグ) is a very popular Salisbury steak in Japan. I also really love hamburg steaks and sometimes cook it at home. You can check out my previous entry, My Top 15 Must Eat Foods in Japan - My Favorite Japanese Foods. In my previous entries, I shared some healthy hamburg steak recipes with using okara, tofu lees. (Check out How to Cook Wafu Okara Hamburg Steaks and How to Make Italian Hamburg Steak with Okara, Japanese Style Salisbury Steak.) However, I haven't written about regular hamburg steak recipe! That's why, today, I'm going to share how to cook hamburg steak with you. Like always, I cooked excessively large amount of hamburg steaks at a time and stored leftovers in freezer to enjoy some later. It saves my time later. 😋

Ingredients (14 Hamburg Steaks)

3 Lb of Ground Beef

2 Onions (Minced)

2 Eggs

1/2 Cup of Panko Bread Crumbs

1/2 Teaspoon of Salt

Nip of Black Pepper

1/2 Cup of Ketchup

3 Tablespoons of Red Wine

3 Tablespoons of Tonkatsu Sauce

How to Cook Japanese Hamburg Steaks

1. Put ground beef, onion, eggs, panko, salt and black pepper into a bowl of a stand mixer. Stir them with a flat beater for 3 to 5 minutes. (If you don't own a stand mixer, you can mix them with your hand.)

If you are making large amount of hamburg steaks in a stand mixer like I do, you might want to use the plastic cover to prevent the mess.

Kitchen Aid Stand Mixer Plastic Cover

2. Make 14 oval hamburg patties.

Make a dent in the center of patties in order to cook them through easier.

3. Heat a large pan over medium heat. Cook one side until they're browned. Then, flip them over, cover the lid, and cook them over medium low heat for 4 minutes.

4. Take the hamburg steaks out from a pan. (Be sure to leave the meat juice in the pan.)

If you cook too many hamburg steaks like I do, you can store excess hamburg steaks in a freezer to enjoy later. (Just microwave them when you want to eat hamburg steaks.👍)

5. 【Cooking Hamburg Sauce】Put ketchup, red wine, tonkatsu sauce into the pan with meat juice (See the step 4). Simmer it over medium heat for 3 minutes.