This meat doria has cooked ground beef and white (bechamel) sauce over rice, baked to perfection with crispy panko crumbs on top. It is amazingly creamy, packed full of flavors, and super easy to put together!
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What is doria
Doria is more like rice gratin with savory meat over steamed rice. It is covered with creamy sauce and oftentimes cheese. Categorized as what we call ‘Yoshoku’, it is a western inspired dish that has developed independently in Japan.
It is an ultimate comfort food and it has been my favorite growing up as well!
Gluten-free dairy-free doria
To make things diet friendly for myself (and gluten & dairy free folks out there!), here are the things I tweaked from traditional recipes. All done without sacrificing the taste.
1. Using rice flour and oat milk in the sauce. Typically, white sauce recipes ask for cow milk, flour and butter. Instead, oat milk is used and it can be substituted with any non-dairy milk of your choice. Rice flour works perfectly as a thickener. It also comes with a bonus that it mixes easily with milk without clumping. A bit of vegan butter adds a richness to the sauce.
2. Making it saucy. The recipe below yields a generous amount of white sauce to cover the meat and rice. This greatly helps to keep it satisfying even without covering with cheese.
3. Using gluten-free panko. It is widely available at grocery stores and online these days. It gives a nice crunch texture without wheat, but with great flavor.
Ingredients for this recipe
For the white sauce:
- Salt
- Rice flour
- Oat milk
- Vegan butter
For the meat layer:
- Onion
- Garlic cloves
- Portobello mushrooms
- Ground beef - I use 80% lean
- Cumin
- Salt
Others:
- Cooked rice - I recommend Japanese rice but substitute with any kind of rice.
- Gluten-free panko
Optional topping:
- Chopped parsley
How to cook creamy meat doria
1. Make the white sauce: Combine the salt, rice flour and oat milk in a pan. Cook over medium heat, whisking constantly until it's thick enough to coat the back of a spoon.
2. Cook the meat: Cook the onion and garlic until fragrant. Add in the mushrooms and ground beef and cook fully until it's no longer watery.
3. Assemble: from the bottom layer starting from rice - meat - then the white sauce.
4. Bake: Top with panko and bake for 20 minutes or until the panko becomes golden brown.
*See the recipe card below for detailed directions.
Storing and reheating directions
Cover and store any leftover doria in the fridge for up to 3 days. You can also transfer to an airtight container and freeze for up to 2 months.
To reheat, uncover and bake in the oven at 375°F/ 190°C for 15- 20 minutes, or microwave until warm.
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Recipe
Creamy Meat Doria (Japanese Rice Gratin)
Ingredients
For white sauce:
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 6 tablespoons rice flour
- 4 cups oat milk
- 1 tablespoon vegan butter
For meat mix:
- ½ large onion minced
- 3 cloves garlic minced
- 5 baby portobello mushrooms 90g finely chopped/ about 1 cup
- 1 pound ground beef
- 1 teaspoon ground cumin
- 1 teaspoon salt
Other ingredients:
- 4 cups Japanese cooked rice or any type of rice
- ½ cup gluten-free panko
Optional topping:
- Chopped parsley
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 425°F/ 218°C. Grease a 9-inch square baking dish or similar.
- Make the white sauce. In a saucepan, place 1 teaspoon salt, rice flour and oat milk. Cook over medium heat, whisking constantly. Bring it to a boil, then lower the heat. Continue to cook for about 3 minutes or until it's thick enough to coat the back of a spoon. Mix in the butter at the end.
- Heat up some cooking oil in a large pan. Cook the onion and garlic until fragrant.
- Add in the mushrooms, ground beef, cumin and 1 teaspoon salt. Cook until it's no longer watery.
- Assemble from the bottom layer starting from rice - meat - then the white sauce. Top with panko and bake for 20 minutes or until the panko becomes golden brown.
- Top with chopped parsley and serve!
Notes
Nutrition
The nutritional information on this website is only an estimate and is provided for convenience and as a courtesy only. The accuracy of the nutritional information for any recipe on this site is not guaranteed.
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