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Cute Animal Rice Burger

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Inspired by MOS burger "rice burger" series, we transformed these rice burgers into cute animal shapes which makes it too adorable to eat! Pair these cute rice burgers with your favourite meat patty and sides to go with it!

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Prep Time 1

Cook Time 1 30

Course Main Course

Cuisine Japanese

Servings portions

Calories 1570 kcal

Equipment

Ingredients

Rice (Burger Bun)

2 cups Calrose Rice
2 1/4 cups Water

Sushi Vinegar Mix

4 tbsp Rice Vinegar
2 tbsp Sugar
1 tsp Salt

Breaded Chicken Patty

800 grams Chicken minced
100 gram Breadcrumbs mixed with chicken
3 tbsp Onion minced
1 tsp Garlic Powder
1/4 tsp Salt
1 tsp Black Pepper
1 tsp Olive Oil 1
1 qty Egg for coating
300 grams Breadcrumbs Coating

To Assemble The Burger

1 slice Cheddar Cheese
1 piece Lettuce
1 piece Chicken Patty see recipe
2 piece Rice Patties see recipe

To Make the Coloured Rice

1 tbsp Sakura Denbu piggy burger
1 tsp Dark Soy Sauce bear burger
1 tsp Tumeric Powder ducky burger

Animal Expression

1 piece Japanese Seaweed facial expressions
1 qty Baby Carrot ducky mouth
1 piece Chicken Ham piggy ears & mouth

Instructions

Sushi Rice

Wash the calrose rice and cook with water in rice cooker.
Once rice is cooked, mix in the sushi vinegar mix and leave aside to cool. Cover with a damp cloth.

Breaded Chicken Patty

Place chicken in a mixing bowl. Add in the bread crumbs, onion, egg, garlic powder, salt and pepper. Place remaining bread crumbs on a plan.
Divide chicken meat into 4 piles and shape into a 5inch diameter size patties. Coat each patty with bread crumbs.
Heat olive oil in a large non-stick skillet over medium heat and fry patties until golden and cooked through, about 5 minutes per side.

Rice Burger

Use a piece of cling wrap, mould the pink, white, yellow and brown colored rice into 8 round circle rice ball about 4 inch in diameter to make the rice burger.
Cut out the piggy ears and nose from a piece of ham.
Cut out the mouth of the ducky from the baby carrot.
Cut the facial parts (eyes, nose and mouth) out from a piece of seaweed. Place the seaweed on the rice burger.
Assemble the facial expression on the rice burger.

To Assemble

Place the bottom rice patty on a piece of lettuce, stack the chicken patty on top with a slice of cheese and lettuce or tomato and stack the top rice patty with the animal expression over.
Place on a wooden board to serve with salad mix at the side.

Notes

if you can't find Sakura Denbu to make the pink sushi rice, you can replace with beetroot juice

Nutrition

Calories: 1570kcal

Keyword bento set, burger, kids meal, rice dish

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I was a runner up in Singapore's Masterchef Competition Season 2. Cooking has been a passion of mine since I was young. I would always follow my grandma to the wet markets to buy groceries and watch her whip up amazing dishes. Always inspired by my grandma, I look to continue her journey in the culinary world.