Hamburgers

A recipe from cooking-ez.com

For 6 people, you will need:

• 1 500 g minced beef
• 2 2 onions
• 3 1 shallot
• 4 1 Egg
• 5 1 tablespoon flour
• 6 6 Hamburgers buns
• 7 12 slices cheese
• 8 12 slices belly (streaky) bacon
• 9 Mustard
• 10 2 tomatoes
• 11 fine (or table) salt
• 12 pepper
• Total weight: 2,490 grams

Times:

Preparation	Cooking	Start to finish
30 min.	4 min.	35 min.

Step by step recipe

1	In a bowl mix 500 g minced beef, 1 Egg, 2 onions and 1 shallot chopped.
2	Salt and pepper, add 1 tablespoon flour and mix again.
3	With this mix, form flat rounds of 10 cm or 4 inches diameter and ½ cm or ¼ inch thick. The best way is to use circles of greaseproof paper of the same diameter to put under the meat.
4	Cook meat rounds on barbecue or in a frying-pan with a lttle oil. Meanwhile split the buns and toast lightly on the inside, using a toaster or the barbecue.
5	Assemble hamburgers: onto each half bun put (for example) mustard, slice of tomato, salad, meat, cheese, gherkins, bacon, onion rings, etc. Then put the two halves together, and enjoy!
6	Make hamburgers: on each half buns put (for example) mustard, tomato slice, pickled gherkins, salad, meat, onion slices, etc. Then put together the two parts, and enjoy it.

Remarks

You can make a shallot sauce: after cooking some of the burgers in the frying pan, add a finely chopped shallot, and cook it in the remaining fat 2 minutes. Then add a half glass of dry white wine, and boil while scraping the bottom of the pan with a wooden spatula. Add 10 cl cream, allow to thick over a low heat. Use as a dressing on the meat in your burger.
You can also try this version of Janet Clark from Toronto who replaces the onion with a sachet of onion soup, and adds 2 or 3 tablespoons of oat flakes to the meat. Delicious.
One difference between us and our Canadian friends: their burgers are much thicker, about 1 cm or more.
Did you know it: Hamburger is not an american recipe originally, but a german one, from the people of Hambourg, the Hamburgers. They brought it to the USA.

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