Stewed Beef AND Tofu Japanese Hamburg Steak In Tomato Sauce: Nikomi Tofu Hamburg Steak

By adding tofu into the Hamburg mix, you can still make fluffy, juicy, and tender tofu Hamburg without using eggs or breadcrumbs.

If you’re worried about them tasting tofu, don’t worry.

Even if you can feed those who don’t like tofu, they will not notice there is tofu.

The taste will be lighter and not juicy compared with ground beef and pork mix, but, you can also use ground chicken if you like to reduce more calories.

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My Mom’s best stewed Hamburg steak without Tofu mix, check out here.

Mom's Best Recipe: How To Make Japanese Stewed Nikomi Hamburg With Rich Tomato Sauce

Juicy, fluffy, tender, absolute meaty Japanese Hamburg Steak (Hambāgu), served with rich tomato sauce, on rice or noodles. This Japanese Hamburg Steak (Hambāgu) is especially called "Nikomi Hambāgu" which literally means stewed meat patties (meatballs) in Tomato sauce. By stewing ground meat slowly, you don't need to worry about undercooked patties. My mom's best Hambāgu recipe with big on flavors. Using white bread-absorbed milk instead of bread crumble, this Hamburg is supreme fluffy. Rich delicious tomato sauce will be ready at the same time.

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1. Stewed Beef AND Tofu Japanese Hamburg Steak In Tomato Sauce: Nikomi Tofu Hamburg Steak
   1. Ingredients  
      1. Hamburger Steak
      2. Tomato Sauce
   2. Instructions 
      1. Cook With Instant Pot

Stewed Beef AND Tofu Japanese Hamburg Steak In Tomato Sauce: Nikomi Tofu Hamburg Steak

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LEARN HOW TO MAKE STEWED JAPANESE HAMBURG STEAK IN TOMATO SAUCE AT HOME! Juicy, fluffy, tender, absolute meaty Japanese Hamburg Steak (Hambāgu), served with rich tomato sauce, on rice or noodles.

This Japanese Hamburg Steak (Hambāgu) is especially called "Nikomi Hambāgu" which literally means stewed meat patties (meatballs) in Tomato sauce. By stewing ground meat slowly, you don't need to worry about undercooked patties.

If you’re worried about them tasting tofu, don't worry. Even if you can feed those who don't like tofu, they will not notice there is tofu. Rich delicious tomato sauce will be ready at the same time.

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Course Dinner

Cuisine Japanese

Servings 4 people

Ingredients  

Hamburger Steak

• 21 oz Ground beef
• 7 oz Ground pork
• 8 oz Tofu firm/ soft
• ¼ Onion, minced
• 1 Egg
• ¼ TSP Nutmeg
• ½ TSP Garlic powder
• ½ TSP Onion powder
• Salt & pepper to taste

Tomato Sauce

• 2 canned diced tomato
• 1 tube Tomato paste
• 2 tbsp Sugar
• 1 tbsp Chicken bouillon *Better Than Bouillon Base preferred
• 1 cup Red wine
• 1½ cup Water
• 2 Dried red chili pepper *optional

Instructions 

• Place tofu on a plate and top kind of heavy plates on the tofu to drain the excess water. Wrap it with a paper towel if desired. Leave for about 15-30 minutes.

  *Be sure that the plates will not collapse since the tofu is unfirm.
• In a large bowl, mix together the ground beef and pork, onions, egg, tofu, salt&pepper to taste, garlic& onion powder, and nutmeg.
• Mix well until it becomes a smooth texture.
• Make the meat mix a ball, and drop it into a bowl a few times to let the air out from the meat mix.
• Use 1/2 cup and divide the patties.
• Lightly oil hands, and form each patty into an oval shape.*Toss each patty back and forth between hands to remove air while forming.
• Oil a large pot or cast iron, and brown each patty on both sides.
• Add canned tomato, tomato paste, water, red wine, chicken bouillon, sugar, and salt & pepper to taste.

  Optionally, add dried red chili peppers.
• Cook hamburg steaks for 2 hours or until the sauce becomes thicker. Add water while cooking if needed.
• Taste the sauce, and add seasoning if needed.*Add 1 tbsp of soy sauce or tonkatsu sauce to combine the flavor if needed.
• If needed, remove all hamburg steaks from the sauce to thicken the sauce.

Keyword Beef, Easy, Ground meat, Holiday, Instantpot, meat, Pork, Tofu, Traditional

Cook With Instant Pot

When using an Instant pot, cook browned Hamburg steaks with High-pressure cook mode, for 30 minutes. Remove the Hamburg steaks out of the sauce, and thicken it until your favorite consistency with saute mode.