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Ultimate beef burger

• Janine Ratcliffe

Published: April 20, 2022 at 4:37 PM

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Serves 4

Easy

Total time: 30 mins

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Make these ultimate beef burgers for your next barbecue, piled high with toppings including our special sauce, sweet and sour onions, emmental cheese, gherkins, lettuce and more

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Ingredients

Nutrition

• 500g steak mince

• red onion

  thinly sliced

• 1/2 tsp celery salt

• A splash of Worcestershire sauce

• chilli flakes

• 4 brioche burger buns

  toasted

• 2 vine tomatoes

  sliced to serve

• 8 emmental

• gherkins

• frilly lettuce

SWEET AND SOUR ONIONS

• 2tbsp red wine vinegar

• 2tsp golden caster sugar

• red onion

  very finely sliced

SECRET BURGER SAUCE

• 2tbsp mayonnaise

• 2tsp French’s American mustard

• 1tbsp gherkins

  very finely diced plus 1 tsp vinegar from the jar

• 1tbsp ketchup

Nutrition: per serving

• kcal906
• fat58.3g
• saturates23.5g
• carbs50.5g
• fibre2.3g
• protein43.6g
• salt2.7g

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Method

• step 1

  Mix the burger sauce ingredients together. If you have time, leave the sauce ingredients for a few hours or even make it the day before.

• step 2

  To make the sweet and sour onions, mix the vinegar and sugar in a bowl and toss the sliced onions in it. Stir now and again while you make the burgers.

• step 3

  Put the mince in a bowl. Grate the onion on the course side of a box grater.The tougher outer layers will refuse to grate, so just discard these. You just want the grated purée. Add the grated onion to the mince bowl along with a splash of Worcestershire sauce, celery salt, and chilli flakes. Mix everything with your hands and divide into 8 equal portions.

• step 4

  Flatten each portion into a very thin patty.They will spring back in the pan so make them much thinner than you think you should.

• step 5

  Heat a non-stick frying pan on a high heat.Turn the oven to 200C/fan 180C/gas 6. Fry the patties for 2 minutes each side.You won’t be able to get all 8 in one pan, so as you finish, transfer them to a baking tray.When you have 8, top each with a square of cheese and put in the oven for 2-3 minutes until the cheese melts.

• step 6

  Put some sauce on each bun base. Add lettuce and a couple of slices of tomato. Stack up 2 patties with cheese, then add sauce, the onions and gherkins. Add more sauce, the bun tops and skewer each to hold it together.

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Authors

Janine RatcliffeFood director

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