Meal One: Rice Burger

So last night was my first meal. I decided to start with an easy task to help build confidence and then I will build up from there.

This recipe is broken up into a number of different parts that you need to get right.
Step 1: using short grain rice rather than sushi as its combines better. Once cooked, I added some corn starch to it as it acts like the glue and then placed in egg moulds so to get them the same size and shape, then kept end them together with glad wrap.

Step 2: After combining some herbs, onion, starch and seasoning to the patties, I shaped them so they were similar size as the rice buns and cooked them evenly on each side.

Step 3: I made a teriyaki sauce from 2T of mirin, sake, sugar and soy sauce and glazed the patties.

Step 4: With everything nearly ready to put together you place the rice patties into a fry pan and colour up one side of the pattie. Roughly 3-4 mins

Step 5: You prepare whatever salad fillings you wish to have, I chose to do lettuce, capsicum with Japanese Mayo.

The finished product looked like this, really pleased with the presentation, however think my teriyaki needed more flavour to it, don't think I had enough sugar to allow for the glaze to sweeten. I would also look at applying a bit of heat through the use of chilli, ginger or garlic.

For a first attempt I was pretty happy though.