Home-made burgers

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Home-made burgers

Name: Home-made burgers
Prep time: 10 min
Cook time: 30 min
Total time: 40 min
Yield: 6

Main Serves 6 40 min

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

Prep time: 10 min

Cooking time: 30 min

Step 1
Gently fry the onions in 2 tablespoons of oil for 10 mins, until softened without colouring. Cool.
Step 2
Combine the minced meat and cooked onions. Season.
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.
Step 4
Form the rest of the mix into burger shapes.
Step 5
Grill, barbecue or fry the burgers until just cooked through.