Mini Baby's breath Christmas tree from sis~ Christmas 2017 ♡

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Korean Pork + Beef Patty Hamburger~ TteokGalbi Hamburger 떡갈비 햄버거

Lately, we have been eating McDonald's Samurai Beef Junior burger quite often so I start thinking of making our own since fast food is not so healthy. Then, I have this idea of making Tteokgalbi into hamburger after searching for recipe on how to make meat patty for burger. I just recently made Tteokgalbi as one of the dish for his birthday meal. Tteokgalbi 떡갈비 or grilled short rib patties is a Korean beef dish made with minced beef short ribs. It taste like beef burger patty and surprisingly pretty close to Samurai beef junior burger except Tteokgalbi taste slightly sweet due to the patty coating sauce. 

Ingredients:

Can Make 8 Meat Patties:

Minced Pork - 350g
Minced Beef - 250g

1/2 Medium Onion - Minced

3 Tbsp Minced Garlic

2 Tbsp Corn Starch

2 Tbsp Soy Sauce

2 Tbsp Mirin

1 Tbsp honey / Sugar

2 Tbsp Sesame Oil

Some Black Pepper

Coating Sauce:

1 tablespoon soya sauce

1 tablespoon mirin

1 tablespoon honey

For the make Burger

Burger buns

Butter

How to Cook:

Step 1. Add the minced pork, minced beef, minced onion, minced garlic, and the marinades (2 Tbsp corn starch, 2 Tbsp soy sauce, 2 Tbsp mirin, 2 Tbsp sesame oil, 1 Tbsp honey, and some peppers). Mix well and knead the meat mixture using your fist for 10-20 seconds.

Step 2. Place the meat mixture in a container with cover in the fridge for at least half an hour to one hour - to let the meat mixture marinate well.

Step 3. After half an hour, take out the meat mixture from fridge. Use a spoon to scope the marinate meat mixture and make it into ball shape by using palm. The meat ball shape is about half size bigger than the golf ball. 

Use your palm to press on the meat ball a little to make it into patty shape.

With the amount of the pork and beef above, it can make into 8 meat patties. 

Step 4. Get 2 burger buns, cut the bun into two (here I didn't cut and separate both sides instead I left some part of the bun attached). Melt some butter in heated pan and placed the buns (inner part) to toast it for 1 minute. 

Toast until the inner part of bun turn crispy. Remove from pan and set aside.

Step 5. Heat the pan with 1 tablespoon of cooking oil and start grilling the meat patty. I am making 2 burgers so I grill 2 patties for each burger here. Gently press the meat patty to flatten it a little while grilling it. The thickness of the patty should be around 2cm thick. Pan-grill the meat patty on medium fire for both sides until it is cook. 

Step 6. After both side of the meat patty is cook, brush the coating sauce that prepare earlier on both size of the patty. Continue to let it grill with coating sauce for 10 seconds more for each side, and the Tteokgalbi meat patty is ready! It is normal that the patty surface looks burn due to the coating sauce.

Step 7. While the patty is still hot, quickly place the cheese slice on it (so it will melt from the heat from patty). Remove it from pan, and placed it on the buns. 

Squeeze some mayonnaise on top of the patty, add some tomatoes slices and my Tteokgalbi burger is ready!

He loves the Tteokgalbi burger very much. The combination of 2 pork + beat meat patty is juicy and tender. The meat patty can be freeze and keep up to 3 months. Now I can made Tteokgalbi burger again whenever I feel like want to.