How to make Japanese style Hamburg with oozing cheese

If you ask Japanese kids what is their favorite food, they would probably say…
                                                    Hamburg! 



What’s not to like about this meaty and scrumptious food!

1. So first, you need a pound of beef.  Add an egg and finely (I mean FINELY) chopped 1/3 of a med sized onion and 1/3 cup of panko bread crumbs.  Add some salt and pepper for seasoning. 
Mix them together with your hand until the ground meat gets sticky. 


2.  I don’t usually do this, but I felt special today!  yay ;)  I folded some cheddar cheese in the center.  Pinch the meat and cover the entire cheese so it does not ooze out until you bite into it. 





3.  Toss the ball back and forth to take out all the air inside of the meat (so that it does not break when it is cooking in a hot pan.) 



4.  I made 4 large cheesy burgs and 8 small burgs for my baby’s bento. 



5.  Oil the skillet very well!  We want the pan to be very hot so we can have a nice color on each side.  Sizzling beautifully!



6.  Turn them after as couple min and cover it.  Turn the heat to very low and wait for 5 min or so. 



7. Take them out from the pan, and let them sit for a while.  We can eat it like this with a nice sauce on top.  But today, we are going to make easy sauce in the pan that we have been cooking the burg. 



8.  I used “Tonkatsu sauce,” “Ketchup” and mustard.  Heat them up with med heat until they are bubbly and combined well. 



9. Put the burgs back into the pan and coat them with the sauce all the way.  Serve immediately to achieve the effect of cheese oozing out from the center(remember? the fun stuff!!)