Beef burger

 

Beef Burger Recipe

🕘Prep:25 mins

Cook:15 mins

plus soaking

🍳Easy

🍽Serves 2

Forget the takeaway and make these double decker homemade cheeseburgers. With gherkins, crisp lettuce and a secret sauce, they take some beating

Ingredients

1 small onion, finely chopped

4 sesame-topped burger buns

300g steak mince

1 tbsp sunflower oil

small wedge of iceberg lettuce, finely shredded

2 slices of mild cheddar or burger cheese

1 gherkin sliced lengthways

oven fries, to serve

For the secret sauce

100g mayonnaise

1 tbsp American mustard

large pinch garlic granules

large pinch onion granules

¼ tsp smoked paprika

1 tbsp white wine vinegar

1 tsp pickle relish or finely chopped gherkin

Method

STEP 1

Tip the onions into a small bowl and pour over boiling water from the kettle until just covered. Leave to cool. Put all the sauce ingredients in another small bowl, then add 1 tbsp of the cooled onion water and mix until everything is evenly combined. Set aside.

STEP 2

Halve two of the burger buns, then cut a thick slice from the middles of the other two buns. Toast or grill the middle slices on both sides and the other buns only on the cut sides, then set aside. Heat the oven to 100C/80C fan/gas 2.

By Barney Desmazery