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The Best Beef Burger

I’m pretty sure I’ve found the best beef burger recipe this week, they’re easy to cook and they taste yummy!

The recipe is from Jamie’s Oliver’s iPhone App and it makes 4.

Ingredients

• 500g beef mince
• 1 red onion
• 1 medium egg, yoke only
• 50g breadcrumbs
• 1/2 teaspoon chilli powder
• 1/2 teaspoon ground cumin
• 1 tablespoon dijon mustard
• 1 tablespoon dried oregano
• 50g pecorino cheese, grated finally
• cheddar heese, preferably already sliced
• 2 large tomato
• 1 cucumber
• round lettuce
• 4 burger buns, sliced
• olive oil
• salt & pepper

The steps

Peel and halve the red onion, slice one half into rings then put the rest in a food processor and blitz until chopped. Add the egg yoke, chilli powder, cumin, oregano, breadcrumbs, mustard and grated pecorino then whiz until fine.

Transfer the mixture into a bowl and add the mince. Season well with salt and pepper then mix everything together. Divide the mixture into 4 balls then pat each into a burger shape.

Fry the burgers on a medium heat for 4 minutes then flip, add a slice of cheese on top then cook for a further 4 minutes or until cooked. Remove the burgers and place on a plate and cover with tinfoil, allow the burgers to rest for 5 minutes.

Add the burger buns inside face down and fry for a few minutes or until they’re nice and crispy.

Now its time to build the burger, you can add anything here but I like to build mine like this. Bugger bun at the bottom with some tomato ketchup on, now the burger, then a slice of tomato, cucumber and a few red onion rings, followed by some lettuce leaves, mayonnaise and then the top of the bugger bun, yum!