Hamburg steak Lia's style

Nia (my ex flat mate) and I were randomly watching you-tube one night and found this "How to" channel and one of the video was how to make a Japanese hamburg steak . I can't remember which video it was I would have modified it anyway to make it simple and quick.

Ingredients:

500g premium mince beef (I like it because it's lean)
2 -3 cloves of garlic (depending on the size)
1 medium onion
1 large egg
1/2 cup of bread crumbs
a good squirt of Japanese mayo
2 tbs of soy sauce (kikoman style soy sauce)
1/2 ts of sugar
a little pinch of Dashi (japanese bonito stock)
a little pinch of pepper

What to do:

I actually baked these hamburg steak in the oven.. they became a little dry, but its not bad... you can of course bake them covered to keep them moist or pan-fried them would be another option and in summer... they are great on the BBQ.

Chopped the garlic and the onions (fine) and combine all the ingredients in a large bowl except for the bread crumbs. You might want to wear swimming goggle, I personally hate chopping onions, it always makes me cry, You can always use those fancy blender like magic bullet or something.

Add the bread crumbs. You don't have to add all of your bread crumbs at this stage, you can also add more, it depends on the softness of your mince, the size of your egg, how big if you mayo squirt etc. So as long as you can make them in to a round firm dough, then its all good! If you find that you add too much bread crumbs and your dough feels abit too hard, you can always add extra mayo to soften it up a little.

Then make it into hamburger patties, just like this and bake, or fried or what ever you want to do with them really.. you can also freeze them for rainy days :)