Okara Patties
Okara Patties

Hello everybody, I hope you are having an amazing day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a special dish, okara patties. It is one of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I’m gonna make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Okara Patties is one of the most favored of recent trending foods on earth. It’s appreciated by millions every day. It is easy, it is fast, it tastes delicious. Okara Patties is something which I’ve loved my whole life. They’re fine and they look wonderful.

To begin with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook okara patties using 8 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.

The ingredients needed to make Okara Patties:
  1. Make ready 100 grams Fresh okara
  2. Take 100 grams Ground chicken
  3. Prepare 2 tabelspoons Hijiki (dried)
  4. Prepare 1 dash Edamame
  5. Take 1 dash Carrot
  6. Prepare 1 Egg
  7. Get 1 dash Ginger (grated)
  8. Get 1 small amout each Salt, sake (for seasoning before cooking) 1:1:1:1 ratio Sake, mirin, sugar and soy sauce (for flavoring)
Instructions to make Okara Patties:
  1. Soak the hijiki in plenty of water to rehydrate. Pop the edamame out of their pods, and finely chop the carrot.
  2. Add the ground chicken in a bowl, add the salt and combine well. Add the okara, egg, sake and ginger and mix more. When it is well mixed, add the hijiki, edamame, carrot and mix even more.
  3. Heat a small amount of oil in a skillet, and pan-fry the okara patties. When the bottom is browned, flip the patties, pour in the water, and braise to cook through.
  4. Once the patties are cooked through, add sake, mirin, sugar and soy sauce to taste. Add the katakuriko slurry (mixture of katakuriko and water not listed) to thicken the sauce and it is done.
  5. Try sandwiching the patties with lotus root. It is yummy.
  6. Place it over a bowl of rice, top it with a sunny-side up to make an okara patty rice bowl.

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