Beautiful Burgers

by buck2217 in Cooking > BBQ & Grilling

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Beautiful Burgers

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I find shop bought burgers a little bland.
So as they are pretty easy to make, I'll make my own.
Most of the ingredients were raised on our lifestyle block, I bought stuffing and was given the cheese.

Supplies

Minced beef approx 500g or 1 pound

Half an onion

Egg

Sage and onion stuffing

Salt

Pepper

Haloumi cheese

Chilli flakes

Buns

Condiments as wanted

Ingredient 1 Onion

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Finely chop half an onion in a bowl.

Ingredient 2 Minced Beef

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Add the beef, I used about 500 grams (1 pound) of good quality meat. Ours came from one of our grass fed cows.

Ingredients 3,4,5 and 6 Seasoning and Stuffing

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Add approx 3 tablespoons of sage and onion stuffing or breadcrumbs and season to taste.

Just enough stuffing to slightly dry the patty

I used ground peppercorns and coarse sea salt, the chilli flakes are from the garden and are dried then ground in a coffee grinder

Ingredient 7 Egg

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Add an egg (from our chooks) the mix the whole lot together.
I find it's easier to just use your hands and mix it but I guess you could use a mixer if you wanted

Mix It Up and Divide

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Once completely mixed, divide into equal portions, I made 7 patties from this but you can make as many (or few) as you want.

Ingredient 8 Haloumi Cheese

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I got given a whole lot of this Chilli Haloumi cheese it is absolutely delicious.

Cut into strips and cook in a pan.

Cook

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I cooked the patties and Haloumi in very lightly oiled pans (virgin olive oil)

Ingredient 9 the Bun

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Bought some nice baps from the supermarket.
You can toast them if you want, I prefer untoasted.

Assemble the Burger

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The world is your lobster here,

Basic burger and cheese or add egg, mushrooms, lettuce, tomato, beetroot, pineapple.... go wild

I went with a little mayo, ketchup and sweet chilli sauce spread on the bun, shredded lettuce, sliced tomato and a little raw onion underneath, then topped with a sliced gherkin and the Haloumi cheese

And Eat 😋

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You can keep your 2 all beef patties, special sauce, lettuce, cheese, pickles, onions on a sesame seed bun. These were delicious. The crunch of the Haloumi with the moist burger was sensational.

Served with Beer Batter chips, ketchup and mayo