Loco Moco

 

Ingredients

  • 1 cup short grain white rice
  • Hamburger patties, 1 per dish
  • Eggs, 1 per dish
  • 1/2 cup butter
  • 1/2 cup flour
  • 1 cannister (4 cups) beef stock
Instructions
  1. Add 1 cup of short grain white rice to rice cooker or saucepan
  2. Set element to med-low heat and put 1/2 cup butter and 1/2 cup flour into saucepan
  3. Stir flour and butter until integrated, then, cup-by-cup, slowly mix in the beef stock, each time stirring until fully integrated before adding more
  4. Set to low heat and let simmer while preparing the rest of the dish 
  5. Fry some hamburger patties, keeping an eye and flipping partway through. You can make patties from scratch, but I had pre-made
  6. In a separate pan, or after the patties are cooked through, fry eggs until they are sunny-side-up (do not flip, remove when the whites are solid but yolk is still runny). I know I didn't do this in the pic, but you should. See description
  7. Plate by placing rice on bottom, then burger patty. Ladle some gravy over the dish, then top with sunny-side-up egg
Yield: 1 plate per burger patty. I cooked for 3 people and had leftovers

Source: My brother told me about it, and I think I consulted the Wikipedia article before cooking

Description:

I know the instructions say to make a sunny-side-up egg and that isn't what's in the photo. I forgot what I was doing and basted them. I also cooked them too hard. I think the yolk is supposed to run into the rice when you cut into it. I didn't quite make dead eggs, but there was certainly less runny yolk than you'd get from a sunny-side-up.

For the gravy, I went back to my broccoli cheddar soup recipe. I did the initial step, which was the roux, but substituted the milk with beef stock. I accidentally doubled the amount of butter and flour, but it worked fine, so I'm including the proportions I used in the recipe. You can use pre-made gravy if you like.

I usually use long grain brown rice in recipes, even if the source calls for a different type, but this time I took the recommendation.

My brother was in California and one of the first pics he sent from there was of loco-moco. It's not a dish of that region though, I believe it's Hawaian.

Despite being a relatively simple dish, it's pretty labour-intensive with four things going at once. I underestimated how long it would take to prep and dinner was late that night.

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