Food & Wine
Crispy beef rice cakes
Shake up your dinner routine with these perfectly-portioned and satisfying crispy beef rice cakes. Lovers of sushi will be fans at the first bite!
Serves: 4
Ingredients:
- 600g (3 cups) sushi or short grain rice, rinsed, drained
- 2 tablespoons sesame oil, plus extra to drizzle
- 300g beef mince
- 75g butter, melted
- 11/2 tablespoons white miso paste
- 1 teaspoon caster sugar
- 2 spring onions, white part finely chopped, green part thinly sliced
- 1 nori sheet, toasted, thinly sliced (optional)
- 1 1/2 tablespoons mirin
- 2 1/2 tablespoons soy sauce
- 60ml rice vinegar
- 1 teaspoon caster sugar
- 2 small ripe avocados, halved, thinly sliced
- 2 large handfuls mixed salad leaves
Method:
- Put the rice in a saucepan with 750ml water. Cover with a lid and bring to the boil over medium heat.
- Reduce the heat to low and simmer for 10 minutes then turn off the heat and allow to stand for a further 5 minutes. Heat 1 tablespoon of the sesame oil in a large frying pan over medium-high heat. Fry the beef mince for 5 minutes, stirring, until browned.
- Meanwhile, whisk the butter, miso paste and sugar in a bowl until combined. Stir 1/4 cup miso butter and the finely chopped spring onion into the beef mixture to combine, reserving the remaining miso butter.
- Roll 1/8 of the rice (150g) into a ball and make an indent in the centre. Place 2 tablespoons of the beef mixture inside then enclose with rice and shape into a triangle or your desired shape. Repeat with the remaining mixture.
- To make the salad dressing, whisk the remaining 1 tablespoon sesame oil with the mirin, soy sauce, rice vinegar and caster sugar until the sugar has dissolved. Heat a frying pan over medium heat. Drizzle the rice cakes with sesame oil on both sides.
- Fry for 5 minutes each side until golden and crisp.
- Toss the avocado and salad leaves with the dressing and serve alongside the rice cakes, with the remaining miso butter, and top with sliced spring onion and nori.
Written by Olivia Andrews. First appeared on Stuff.co.nz.
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