THE perfect BURGER recipe

A great burger is a truly wonderful thing – a genuine delight. far from the atrocities many a quick food joint throws at us, a well-made burger full of high high quality components makes for one of the very best meals. Here’s our recipe to celebrate the worldwide Burger Month of May.

It warms my heart to see the humble burger getting so much limelight these days. Lifted from its lowly fast-food late-night guilty pissed-up food status, the hamburger now discovers itself peering down from lofty gourmet heights.

Mrs romance as well as I do like a great burger – I’ve even listed my top 10 burgers list – though I believe that will requirement reviewing once again soon!

However, as much as we do enjoy a burger out, we likewise relish (excuse the pun) a huge juicy homemade burger too. I’ve been working on my recipe for a while as well as I’m quite delighted with the results.

Here’s my basic burger patty recipe:

The perfect burger recipe

Here’s what you need

Makes 6-8 patties

– 500g beef mince

– 2 rashers of bacon finely chopped (optional)

– 1 egg

– ½ big onion extremely finely chopped

– 1 garlic clove extremely finely chopped

– 1tbsp white vinegar

– ½ cup – ¾ cup breadcrumbs – gluten-free work truly well

– Salt as well as pepper to taste – don’t be stingy with the salt!

Here’s what you do

1. mix the egg, bacon, onion, garlic as well as vinegar together in a big bowl, then add the mince as well as mix up until whatever is well combined.

2. add the breadcrumbs by sprinkling a layer over the surface of the mix as well as combining. Repeat this process up until the mix isn’t totally wet however holds itself together well.

3. scoop sufficient mix out to make a quarter pounder (or smaller) patty, capture difficult into a ball, then flatten as well as shape into a disc.

I really utilize a burger press to shape my burgers. It’s quicker, cleaner as well as easier. You put the mix in the press, which you line with a paper disc, then you flip the whole thing over as well as press the plunger on the top. This compresses the burger into shape as well as squeezes the mix to ensure that the burger holds its type when you cook it.

I like my burger press – as well as not just since my mum bought it for me. Here’s the precise design you can buy too. as well as here’s a somewhat different model, which does approximately the exact same thing.

The all-important additional bits

As I mentioned, this is just my fundamental burger recipe. I add great deals of other things into my mix depending upon what flavours I want.

Here are a few of the things I add to my burger mix:

– Sesame oil, truffle oil or soy sauce for a bit of umami

– Tabasco sauce, chilli sauce or powder, or spicy sauce for barbeque hot wings for a punch

– Smokey paprika, sumac, mustard powder or Worcester sauce for a savoury note… in truth I utilize smokey paprika in quite much everything. It’s the very best ingredient.

– I sometimes add a dash of milk. The vinegar is a tenderiser, however so is milk. It likewise adds a bit of richness to the mix.

I likewise discover freezing my burger patties works truly well. I wasn’t as well sure to begin with as well as was worried it would make them as well watery, however it really makes them easier to handle as well as they bind together better. plus the water material in them triggers a type of burger concentrate, which emulsifies in the pan!

Do you have a special component that you add to your burger? Where’s the very best burger joint near you? tell us in the comments!

Images by Mrs romance utilizing an Olympus OM-D EM10 camera.