Loco Moco with Cauliflower Rice
Ingredients
Cauliflower Rice Ingredients
- ½ head cauliflower medium-sized
- 1 tbsp extra virgin coconut oil
- 2-4 pinches dried nori seaweed flakes
Loco Moco Ingredients
- ¼ daikon radish cut into 8-10 thin sticks
- 1 cup rice wine vinegar
- 1 tsp sea salt
- 10-12 slices Japanese cucumber thinly sliced
- 3 slices renkon lotus root, diced
- 100 grams minced chicken = 3.5 oz (about ¼ lb)
- ½ sweet onion medium size
- 1-2 tbsp butter
- ½ avocado medium to large size, thinly sliced
- 1-2 tbsp extra virgin olive oil
- 2-3 dashes matcha-flavored salt regular sea salt ok too!
- 1 free-range egg
- 2-3 cherry tomatoes, diced
- green onion, diced as garnish
- ground pepper
- leafy green lettuce or mixed greens on the side
Instructions
Pickled Daikon Radish Prep
- Chop a small section of daikon radish (approx. 4 in / 10 cm long).
- Cut daikon into thin sticks (approx. 4 in / 10 cm long).
- Put daikon sticks into a small bowl.
- Add rice vinegar and salt.
- Cover and let sit 30 minutes (or the time you are prepping and cooking).
Cauliflower Rice Prep and Cooking
- Finely chop cauliflower with a knife, box shredder, or food processor.
- Add cauliflower to a small saucepan.
- Add coconut oil and mix.
- Cover saucepan with lid and cook on low heat for approx. 10 min. Stir occasionally. *
- When cauliflower becomes tender, turn off heat and let sit with the cover on.
Hamburger Prep and Cooking
- Dice renkon lotus root.
- Cook renkon on low heat until it begins to brown.
- Place renkon in a small bowl. Add minced chicken.
- Using your hands, mix renkon and minced chicken to form a patty.
- Slice onion into medium size chunks and set aside.
- In a frypan, cook hamburger patty on low to medium-low heat.
- Add onion chunks and 1 tbsp of butter around the circumference of burger patty.
- Stir onions and flip burger when bottom side begins to brown.
- When burger is cooked through and onions are golden brown, turn off heat. Keep burger and onions in the pan to keep warm.
Vegetables Prep
- Slice cucumbers and ½ avocado. Set aside.
- Dice cherry tomatoes and green onions. Set aside.
Building Your Loco Moco
- Spoon cauliflower rice onto a plate and garnish with lettuce or greens.
- Sprinkle cauliflower rice with dried nori seaweed flakes.
- Using chopsticks or your fingers, place pickled daikon radish sticks on top of the cauliflower rice in two rows crisscrossing to make a grid pattern.
- Place slices of cucumber on top of the daikon to make a flat surface (or floor). Extra cucumber can be added to the lettuce as a garnish.
- Take one half of avocado. Remove pit and slice avocado thinly inside the shell.
- Using a spatula, place burger patty on top of cucumber layer.
- Use spatula to carefully top burger with caramelized onion.
- Using a spoon or hand, place avocado slices on top of onions, with the flat side of the avocado facing down.
- Drizzle olive oil on top of avocado and other layers.
- Sprinkle matcha salt on avocado and a little on the cauliflower rice.
- Add butter to the same frypan–fry egg "sunny side up".
- Add diced cherry tomato, green onion, and ground pepper on top of egg.
Notes
*Be careful not to forget about the cauliflower rice! Speaking from experience... if you forget to stir, the bottom may burn.
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