BBQ
Home-made burgers
Riverford minced beef makes excellent burgers, but many aficionados call for chuck steak which has a good fat content. If you want to use that instead, finely dice it then pulse to the right texture in a food processor. Make this your own with your favouite toppings: lettuce leaves, sliced tomatoes, slivers of red onion, gherkins, ketchup, mustard, mayonnaise.
Cook's notes
Keep it traditional or add different flavours to the minced meat - a little chopped chilli, some crumbled blue cheese, a few herbs.
Ingredients
- 100g onions, finely chopped
- 1kg minced beef
- 8g salt
- 2g pepper
Method
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Step 1
Gently fry the onions in 2 tablespoons of oil for 10 mins, until softened without colouring. Cool.
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Step 2
Combine the minced meat and cooked onions. Season.
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Step 3
Test a little of the mix to check it has the right amount of seasoning for you by frying a small, walnut-sized nugget of it until just cooked through. Taste that and adjust the seasoning if needed.
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Step 4
Form the rest of the mix into burger shapes.
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Step 5
Grill, barbecue or fry the burgers until just cooked through.
