The (almost) perfect burger

GaryKelly · Guru

The (almost) perfect burger

Gerty Dancer · Guru

Mate, you cant have a burger without beetroot!!!! It just wont do, especially on Australia Day!

GaryKelly · Guru

I love beetroot too Gerty (in fact I love it on buttered fresh bread just by itself), but I've provided the basic recipe. Embellishments are up to each individual.

neilnruth · Guru

ABC presenter was asking for burger recipe ideas the other afternoon. There was a new one for every listener I'd say. Someone even said a shop organised his local bakery to cook him 7" buns to make his burgers outdo the competition of others. And it worked. At least you'd have no trouble with the contents slipping out of a 7" bun.

Rip and Rosie · Guru

You can keep your "pickled cucumber" aka gerkin.
I'd have tomato sauce instead of "salsa sauce".
Like Gerty, have to have beetroot.
For a real celebration though, I add fried egg, bacon and a ring of pineapple.

GaryKelly · Guru

Pickled cucumber...

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Aspirations · Member

Burger sounds great! Your recipe for pickled cucumber please? They look so good!

GaryKelly · Guru

Those cucumbers are dill pickles which are a bit complicated and time consuming. Here's a much quicker and simpler recipe for pickled cucumbers from the BBC.

Gerty Dancer · Guru

I reckon you could possibly replace the ginger with some dill in that recipe?

Aspirations · Member

Thanks!

Aspirations · Member

(I like complicated. Big fan of Heston!)

Dougwe · Chief one feather

After shaping the patty which I throw back and forth in each hand, roll to a ball then shape I leave in fridge uncovered for at least 1hr then bring to room temp before cooking on the Webber Q. This keeps the shape while cooking. No need for the egg in the mix but it does get cooked then goes with all of the other goodies before putting the top of the bun on. A bit of beetroot paste is nice instead of tom sauce.

Cloak · Guru

Grind up some rump steak instead of buying mince.

Not sure what cut a butcher uses for mince but it really is chalk and cheese.

Once the patty is cooked droop a slice of buffalo mozzarella and pop it under the grill for a minute.

Then add it to you favourite additions and enjoy.

wendyv · Guru

For the salad component of the burger - take a medium sized leaf of iceberg lettuce and shape it like a wide cup. Inside put some grated carrot, thin sliced tomato, thin sliced cucumber (or pickled cucumber of some sort), some thin sliced red capsicum rings, some thin sliced red onion rings, beetroot slices if wished. After assembling meat, whatever on the bun base, pick up the lettuce cup and invert it over the lot, then put bun lid on quick.
This is the easiest way to add the salad stuff - and it tends to stay in place. Learned it when I was cooking them in a cafe. Can stick a wooden skewer through the whole lot, too, to keep it from sliding apart.

GaryKelly · Guru

Nifty idea, Wendy. Nothing worse than taking a bite and firing salad in all directions like a scatter gun. Another idea is to roll up the lettuce leaf and eat the salad component separately.

dorian · Guru

I'm with Gary - no beetroot for me.

beetroot + anything = beetroot

BTW, my grand niece, who isn't even a year old, can gum down a corn cob.

mdudley · Member

burger sounds great

hako · Guru

Gary that sounds great except the bit where you say "but I like to keep pretty close to the Maccas' taste.".....however I like the bit about frying up chopped onion and garlic to get the flavour which is certainly not Maccas!. Next burger I make I'll try that.

Love a great burger but not Maccas style with gherkin .....yuk.

Regards

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