Name: Loco Moco With Roasted Garlic Gravy
Prep time: 5 min
Cook time: 15 min
Total time: 20 min
Ingredients: 1 Cup Japanese Sticky Rice; 1 Quart Roasted Garlic Gravy*; 1 Pound Fresh Ground Beef Burger Patties**; 4 Eggs; Chopped Scallions for Garnish

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Loco Moco With Roasted Garlic Gravy. Rice, homemade roasted garlic gravy, and a burger patty served with a fried egg on top. Your new favorite way to eat a burger.

Who You Tryin’ To Get Crazy With Esse? Don’t You Know I’m Loco!

Hell yeah! Let’s get crazy! Crazy delicious, that is. Today, I’m going to teach you fine folks how to make a Loco Moco.

What’s A Loco Moco?

A Loco Moco is a Hawaiian street food that consists of rice (sometimes fried), gravy, a burger patty, and topped with a fried egg.

That Sounds Like A Great Alternative Use For Burger Meat!

Yup, and it’s a good thing that it’s Burger Month. Oh did I forget to mention it’s Burger Month? Well it’s that splendiforous time of year when we celebrate all things peaces of ground meat and good will toward carnivores. Speaking of carnivores, Girl Carnivore Kita Roberts wrangled together 146 bloggers and chefs together who each created their own burger recipe. That’s a 146 fucking burgers!

So, grab the Tums, spend a few extra days on the treadmill, eat your yearly salad, because things are gonna get meaty. So. Deliciously. Meaty.

Burger Month = Free Shit!

For you fine folks out there in Burgerland, Kita is running a giveaway on www.burgermonth.com. Head on over to sign up for the raffle and win one of these awesome prizes:

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This epic burger dish is my own creation for #BurgerMonth2017. I would love to thank American Lamb Board, Anolon. Beef, It’s What’s For Dinner, Char-Broil, Curly’s BBQ, Cuttingboard.com, Melissa’s Produce, Primal Stone, Spiceologist, Thermoworks , and Veal Made Easy for these kick ass prize packages.

This post is part of the #BurgerMonth Celebration brought to you by Girl Carnivore and over 100 other bloggers and bloggerinas. Check out #BurgerMonth on Instagram to keep up with the deliciousness.

What IS Hawaiian Food?

There’s a whole lot more to Hawaiian cuisine than ham and pineapple on your pizza. For the record, that is a horrifying combination and whoever thought that up should be murdered, dismembered, and his parts should be shipped to different corners of the globe so he may never be resurrected in some sort of black magic ritual. But, I digress. Real Hawaiian food is a combination of American, Filipino, and Japanese food cultures that meld together into an amazing Frankencuisine. With such amazing concoctions as Spam Musubi, Mochiko Chicken, and poke bowls. But today, boys and girls, I present to you the Loco Moco.

This loco moco recipe adds another layer of umami to another already epic meal by adding roasted garlic to the gravy.

Get The Recipe For Roasted Garlic Gravy Here

I made the roasted garlic gravy recipe in a separate post because honestly, this gravy is so damn good that you’ll want to put it on everything. Your turkey and mashed potatoes are going to be epic this Thanksgiving. Making the gravy is the hardest part of the loco moco recipe and it’s not even all that difficult.

Is Grinding Your Own Meat Worth It!

Next thing you need are burger patties. You COULD use store bought patties, but honestly they pale in comparison to grinding your own meat. I’m a huge advocate for this and it’s a lot easier than it sounds. I’ve got a whole tutorial on how to grind your own.

Tutorial: Grinding Your Own Meat With A Kitchen Aid

With your burger meat ground and your gravy made you can begin assembling your loco moco. Put on a pot of rice. I prefer Japanese sticky rice for the recipe. While the rice cooks, generously salt and pepper your burger patties and toss them into a hot skillet.

I love my cast iron skillet from Lodge. I can heat it to an extremely high heat for that perfect sear without any of those non stick carcinogens.

Sear until they’re done to your preference. I prefer mine rare – medium rare so you can taste that meaty goodness. At the same time, fry an egg sunny side up.

When the rice is ready, which should only take 15 minutes, pile some rice on a plate. Make a small indent in the rice and pour in some gravy. Add a burger patty and a fried egg. It’s completely optional but you can garnish with some chopped scallions.

That’s it. You will now be able to experience what I experienced when I broke that egg yolk and it poured all over the burger patty and mixed with the gravy. So freakin’ good.

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This recipe requires a little something special. Here’s a list of what you will need:

[list][list_item icon=”fa-fire”]Lodge Cast Iron Skillet[/list_item][list_item icon=”fa-fire”]Japanese Sticky Rice[/list_item][/list]

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