The Definitive Kinpira Stir-fry Rice Burger!

• 4 small rice bowls' worth Plain cooked rice
• 1 Soy sauce
• 1 two 10 cm long rashers Bacon
• 2 sheets Nori seaweed
• 1 1/2 times the amount of carrot Burdock root (soaked in water first, then julienned)
• 1/2 Carrot (julienned)
• 1 dash Beef (chopped finely)
• 1 tbsp Sesame oil
• 2 tbsp Sugar
• 1 White sesame seeds
• 1 Red chili pepper (seeds removed and finely chopped)
• 3 tbsp Soy sauce
• 2 tbsp Mirin
• 2 tbsp Sake
• 200 ml Water

1. Make kinpira in bulk for later use.
2. Heat sesame oil in a frying pan, and stir fry the beef, the well drained burdock root, and carrot.
3. Add sugar and continue stir frying.
4. Add the combined sauce ingredients.
5. Add the red chili pepper, and simmer until the sauce is reduced to about 1/3.
6. Add sesame seeds while crushing with your fingers, and the kinpira is done!
7. !
8. Put the rice in a grinding bowl (mortar), and grind the rice grains with a pestle.
9. Continue until the rice forms a rough mochi dough and comes together.
10. Form the rice as shown in the photo.
11. (I shaped the patties with my hands.)
12. Pan fry on both sides until hard and crispy in an oiled frying pan.
13. Brush the rice patties evenly with soy sauce (use a pastry brush if you can), then return to the pan to fry until browned.
14. Pan fry the bacon also.
15. Stack in this order: Rice patty nori seaweed kinpira bacon rice patty.
16. Done!

rice, soy sauce, long rashers bacon, carrot, carrot, beef, sesame oil, sugar, white sesame seeds, red chili pepper, soy sauce, mirin, sake, water

Taken from cookpad.com/us/recipes/169707-the-definitive-kinpira-stir-fry-rice-burger (may not work)