Anime Recipe: Okonomiyaki-inspired burgers for Denki Kaminari from My Hero Academia

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​It's the final day of My Hero Academia week! I've had so much fun creating recipes for these characters and we're wrapping it up with something more simple: a burger for Denki Kaminari. 

According to the information cards on each student featured in the episodes, Denki's favorite food is a hamburger. But everyone knows how to make those and that seemed a little boring... but I saw this pre-seasoned ground chicken at Publix that happened to be BOGO and I knew it would be perfect for a burger in honor of Denki. It's a Thai-style ground chicken, meaning it's got garlic, shallots, ginger, and soy sauce worked in... and get this: the brand name is Mighty Spark. It was destined for our Denki-inspired dish, given he's got an electricity Quirk! 

To lean in to these flavors, I'll be topping this burger with some Japanese mayonnaise and some okonomiyaki sauce (I'll show you how I make mine below, or you can buy your own on Amazon) instead of your standard ketchup or mustard.

Ingredients

• 1 lb Mighty Spark Thai-style ground chicken
  • If your store doesn't carry Mighty Spark, you can season ground chicken yourself with garlic, shallots, soy sauce, and ginger.
• Shredded cabbage
• 1/2 cup green onion, thinly sliced 
• 4 tsp pickled ginger
• 4 tsp (or more to taste) okonomiyaki sauce ​
  • ​To make your own, mix together 2 tbsp Worcestershire sauce, 2 tbsp ketchup, 1 tsp oyster sauce, and 1 tsp sugar or honey (you can use Stevia if you prefer that for sugar-related dietary needs).  
• 2 tbsp (or more to taste) mayonnaise, preferably Japanese mayonnaise​
• 4 burger buns 

Instructions

1. Form four patties out of the ground chicken and thoroughly cook.
2. While burgers are cooking, toast your buns in a toaster or air fryer. To each bun, add at least 0.5 tbsp of okonomiyaki sauce ​and 1 tsp Japanese mayonnaise 
3. ​Once chicken burgers are thoroughly cooked, add to bun.
4. Top with evenly distributed green onion, cabbage, and pickled ginger
5. Optional: serve with fries (regular or sweet potato are both a good pairing) and extra okonomi sauce & mayo for dipping the fries in (trust me - it's delicious on fries).

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