Beef and Potato Coroquettes

Photo should look better than the above. But i forgot to take the photo when the dish was ready. Once i realised, only 4 pc left...

* original recipe from Harumi Kurihara

Ingredients:
7 potatoes (750g)
1 onion
300g minced beef **
3tbsp butter
flour, eggs and breadcrumbs for deep frying

** For Vegetarian version, replaced with vegetarian meat or skip altogether

How to make:
1. Wash potatoes, peel skins and and boil for approx 20-30 min (or until soft).
2. Take out potato and mash until smooth.
3. Mince onion.
4. Marinate minced beef with soy sauce, sugar, sesame oil and pepper.
5. Heat frying pan and add butter, then minced onion. Once fragrant but not too soft, add minced beef. Stir-fried them until beef are all cooked.
6. Mix cooked minced beef mixture with the mash potato.
7. Scoop them and shape them into ball shape.
8. Heat oil to around 170 degrees.
9. Each ball - firsrt dip into flour, then beaten eggs, then breadcrumbs -> deep fry until golden color.
10. Servce with Tonkatsu sauce.

Tips:
** pls remember to press a bit when shaping the mixture. if centre too loose, during the deep frying process, it will break up!
** watch temperature of deep frying oil. If it goes further then 170', then remove some of the hot oil and add some new oil. Otherwise, the new batches will go black very easily!