[Recreating Ryuuji-san's Recipe] I tried making the popular menu item “Cheese Hamburger Dish” from Surprise Donkey in a generic version.

With easily accessible ingredients, you can enjoy a taste as good as the restaurant with Ryuuji-san's recipe. This time, it's a generic series that completely recreates the popular menu item, the cheese hamburger dish, from the family restaurant "Surprise Donkey." This dish is perfect right now when dining out has become less affordable due to rising prices.

Due to soaring prices, the popular local restaurant has become "a bit pricey," so I decided to recreate the dishes at home.

Main ingredients of the cheeseburger dish.

**Ingredients (Serves 2)** Ground meat mix: 300g Onion (grated): 80g Egg: 1 Cheddar cheese: 4 slices Salt: 1/3 teaspoon Ajinomoto: 6 shakes Miso: 2 teaspoons Nutmeg: 4 shakes Breadcrumbs: 4 tablespoons Mini tomatoes: 2 Daikon salad: 1 pack Black pepper: to taste **= Hamburger Sauce =** Onion: 50g Butter: 10g Soy sauce: 2 tablespoons Mirin: 1 tablespoon and 1 teaspoon Sugar: 1/3 teaspoon Sake: 1 tablespoon Ajinomoto: 8 shakes **= Salad Sauce =** Mayonnaise: 60g Soy sauce: 1 teaspoon Sugar: 1 teaspoon Ajinomoto: 3 shakes Cooked white rice: desired amount

We're getting closer to the taste of the meat mixture at Gyu-Kaku (a Japanese restaurant) with grated onion and miso!

[How to Make]

1. Season the ground meat

Put the ground meat, grated onion, egg, miso, breadcrumbs, salt, Ajinomoto, nutmeg, and black pepper into a bowl.

If you grate the onion without cutting off the root end, it will grate without falling apart!

The miso that Ryuji often uses is this one. If you're a fan of Ryuji's recipes, you’ll want to keep it stocked at home.

2. Knead the meat mixture until sticky

If the grated onion makes it a bit watery, adding more breadcrumbs will help as they absorb the moisture.

3. Form the meat mixture

Once well kneaded to a smooth texture, divide it into two parts and shape it into hamburgers. Indenting the center will create a round puff when cooked, giving it an appetizing visual.

A hamburger with a hefty volume. It looks like it’s about twice the size of the hamburgers I usually make.

4. Cooking the Hamburger

Pour oil into a frying pan, heat it over medium heat, and then add the hamburger. Cover it and steam-cook for 3 to 4 minutes.

Mr. Ryuji was grilling two portions at the same time, but my frying pan was small, so I grilled them one at a time.

5. Steam and bake the other side as well

Flip it over and steam and bake the other side for about 3 to 4 minutes. Press the center of the hamburger with a spatula or similar tool; if it feels firm and springy, that’s a good indication that it’s cooked through.

6. Add water and steam-bake further

Add 3 tablespoons of water (not included in the measured amount) and steam-bake on low-medium heat for about 2 and a half minutes. This prevents sticking on the bottom and ensures even cooking through steam.

7. Place cheddar cheese and melt it

Stack two slices of cheddar cheese to create thickness, then cut into a rectangular shape. After overlapping the cheese in an X shape, place it on top of the hamburger.

Just by adding cheddar cheese, I think of the Cheese Burger Dish from Bikkuri Donkey.

8. Cover and melt the cheese

Once you place the cheddar cheese on top, cover it to melt the cheese.

This painting is indeed a shocking donkey!

9. Finish by pouring onion sauce

Plate the hamburger steak. In the pan used to cook the hamburger steak, sauté finely chopped onions in butter, then add soy sauce, mirin, sake, sugar, and MSG. Once it has thickened, pour it over the hamburger and sprinkle with black pepper to taste, and it’s done.

10. Make the salad dressing

Mix mayonnaise, soy sauce, sugar, and Ajinomoto, pour it over the radish salad, and garnish with cherry tomatoes to complete the salad.

This time, the recommended salad dressing is Pure Select Mayonnaise.

Tasting time! The gooey cheese is irresistible, Generic Cheeseburger Dish

Batten cheese becomes even gooier with residual heat!

The recreation of the popular menu item "Cheeseburger Dish" from Bikkuri Donkey is complete! I wanted to observe the visuals more closely, but I succumbed to my appetite and started munching on the hamburger. "So good!" It's not just flattery; I'm genuinely surprised that it tastes exactly like Bikkuri Donkey.

Since we use the secret ingredient "miso" in Bikkuri Donkey's hamburgers, the richness of the meat and the miso blend perfectly, making it easy to keep eating.

The meltiness of the cheese is perfect. The creaminess of the cheese and the deep, spicy flavor of the hamburger make it impossible to put down my chopsticks! This time, I used the same 70% cheddar cheese mixture as Ryuuji-san, but according to him, with 100% cheddar cheese, the cheddar cheese flavor stands out even more. My husband, who is usually picky about the taste of dishes, even said, "Make it again tomorrow!" So, I think I'll try making it with 100% cheddar cheese next time.

Surprise Donkey Dish Plate
Price: 4180 yen
(Purchase on the official site)

Actually, this time, I recreated it with the real Surprise Donkey Dish Plate. I was particular about the plate too, and the cheese hamburger dish I made was exceptional! Everyone should definitely try making Ryuuji-san's generic cheese hamburger dish.

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