Loco Moco's - A Classic Hawaiian Dish

Imagine an empty white plate - with nothing on it. Now imagine that you were sitting on the beach in Hawaii with that same white plate, but this time it is filled with food. What food items do you imagine on the plate? Fruit? Something sweet and taste like an island? What about rice, eggs, gravy, and a hamburger patty? Well - today I'm going to show you how to make the perfect loco moco.

Loco Moco's are something that many locals eat - it can be eaten as a breakfast, lunch, or dinner and it is very quick and simple to make.

Ingredients

• Rice (preferably white, but brown works too)
• Hamburger patty (we used a turkey burger)
• 2 eggs per person
• Mango
• Brown Gravy (we used teriyaki sauce cause we didn't have any gravy)

Cook Time

• Preparation: 5 minutes at most
• Cooking: 15-20 minutes depending on your method of cooking the rice

Directions

1. Cook Rice in either a rice cooker or on the stove.
1. You're going to want about 1-2 cups of cooked rice per person depending on how hungry the person is (1 cup uncooked rice yields about 2-3 cups cooked rice)
2. Cook hamburger or turkey burger according to package, or if you're making it from scratch heat on the stove.
3. Make 2 sunnyside up eggs PER PERSON. You want the yolks to be runny.
4. Slice up 1/2 mango for each person. Don't know how to cut a mango? Watch this video to learn how!
5. Heat brown gravy (if using)
6. Place burger onto a plate
7. Put rice onto plate, covering part of the burger
8. Carefully place the two sunnyside up eggs on top of the rice and burger. It's okay if the yolks start to run into the rice and burger (this is a good thing).
9. Pour on desired amount of brown gravy or teriyaki sauce.
10. Place mango onto the side of the plate.
11. Pour your self a glass of mango, guava, or any other sort of islandy juice.
12. Enjoy!

The total cost of this meal was pretty cheap - I buy rice and eggs in bulk and the turkey burgers were $5.70 for 12 burgers (Brian and I only used a total of 2). The gravy or teriyaki sauce were already in my pantry, so I didn't have to buy that and the mango was around $0.67.

Have you ever had a loco moco? If so, what did you think about it? If not, would you try it now? Let me know in the comments below!