Big Mac Style Fried Rice

Serves –  2-4

Preparation time – 10 minutes (plus 30 minutes to soak sushi rice)

Cooking time – 15-20 minutes

Burger  Fried Rice Ingredients –  

250g sushi rice (or any you can get hold of) – cooked and prepared as per instructions

400g great quality minced beef

½ white onion – diced

2 medium sweet gherkins – diced

6 cherry tomatoes – roughly diced

1 beef stock cube

several glugs of soy sauce – add to taste

Garnish –

several sprigs of parsley – leaves picked, finely chopped

iceberg lettuce – allow an entire leaf per serving

1 spring onion – finely sliced

¼ white onion – diced

2 sweet gherkins – sliced into rings

2-4 slices of American burger cheese – one per serving

several generous glugs of olive oil

2 plain tortillas – cut into roughly even triangles

sprinkle of sesame seeds (optional)

Burger Sauce Ingredients –

100g mayonnaise

100g ketchup

35g American mustard

sprinkle of cayenne pepper

1 sweet pickled gherkin – finely diced plus a dash of pickle brine

sprinkle of white pepper

Instructions – 

Start by preparing all ingredients as noted. Next prepare your garnishes and set to one side so you don’t forget anything.

Burger Fried Rice –

Cook your sushi rice as per instructions. While the sushi rice steams you should start to cook up the remainder of your dish. Take a large frying pan or heavy based dish and place over a medium to high heat. Add in a glug of oil followed by your minced beef. Break it up slightly with your spatula and allow to cook until it starts to darken and crispen up slightly. Next add in the chopped onion, gherkin and cherry tomatoes, allow to cook for a further 2-3 minutes. Next add in your beef oxo/ beef stock along with a splash of water, season with black and white pepper and a splash of soy sauce. Next add in the cooked sushi rice and evenly combine all the ingredients. Taste for seasoning and adjust to your preference using the soy sauce to add more salt to the dish.

Burger Sauce –

For the burger sauce combine all the ingredients and thoroughly mix. Adjust the sweetness by adding more of the sweet pickling brine.

Sesame Tortilla Chips –  

Take your tortilla and roughly cut into even sized triangles. In a frying pan add several glugs of olive oil, enough to shallow fry the tortillas in. Place over a medium to high heat – it’s hot enough when the tortilla fizz immediately when added. Fry for around 30 seconds on each side or until golden brown. Carefully remove and place on paper towel, sprinkle with sesame seeds and allow to cool.

Plate up –

Start with your lettuce leaf and spoon in the burger fried rice. Next top with the American style cheese, several generous dollops of burger sauce then scatter over your garnishes and serve with a side of crispy sesame tortillas.