How to Make the Best Home Made Hamburgers. Period
78Home made hamburgers have to be one of my favorite foods. Hamburgers have developed a reputation as junk food. This is simply not true. Hamburgers are a good source of nutrients, proteins and vitamins. What makes them “junk food” is buying them from junk restaurants.
Making your own homemade hamburgers is not rocket science, and this is a ten minute recipe. Easy to do, but one hundred percent better than anything you could possibly get from one of the hamburger chains – just without the piece of plastic they use to buy your children’s affections. You may have guessed I am not a big fan of MacDonalds etc. Too true.
So, here is a simple guide to making your own hamburgers at home. You can cook them however you like. A skillet is easiest, but grilling hamburgers on a barbecue or a broiler is a lower fat way of cooking them because the fat either drops through on to the coals and produces a great smoky flavor on a grill or drops in to a drip tray under a broiler. (My own personal preference is to cook them in a Weber kettle barbecue - Hands down the best results.) Barbecue hamburgers are the ultimate as far as I am concerned. This makes 4 burgers, just increase the ingredients as needed for more.
You will need:
Equipment:- A bowl
- A sharp knife
- A cutting board
- A skillet or heavy frying pan ( or a Grill )
Ingredients:
- 1lb/500g ground sirloin
- 1 half onion grated or finely chopped
- 4 pinches ground coriander
- 4 pinches paprika powder
- A dash of fresh ground black pepper
- A pinch of salt
- A tablespoon of Worcestershire sauce
- 1 egg lightly beaten
First, mix all the ingredients in a bowl and using your hands, shape into four balls. Turn the heat to medium under the skillet and add a tiny amount of oil. When the skillet is hot, add the burgers, pushing them flat with a spatula. Cook for about 3 minutes each side for medium rare, longer for well done and less for rare.
Just before the burgers are ready, toast the inside of the buns under a broiler or over a grill or in a toaster. If using a grill or broiler, spread a little butter on the buns first. My personal preference for serving them is a little Mayo on the bottom of the bun, then the burger with a thin slice of raw onion, a lettuce leaf and a slice of tomato. Topped off with a dap of ketchup and a good helping of English mustard on the top half of the bread. But, the great thing about making home made hamburgers is, you can add what you want. I like to serve them with home made French fries.
Bone Apetite!
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For low fat, high fiber homemade hamburgers, replace the buns with a whole wheat bun, broil or grill the burger, cut out the Mayo and butter and serve with a good amount of lettuce. Let it never be said ALL my recipes are high fat !
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My pleasure. Bon Apetit!
Makes me want to fire up the grill right now! At 6AM LOL!! Actually I think I'll go to sleep now, but I will be firing up that grill this weekend. Sounds delicious Mark!:)
Hey, they taste just as good at six AM as they do in the evening. And remember - beer's not just for breakfast LOL
Yum, I like the ingredients you've added to the mince. The corriander and paprika, especially, would work well. Now you've gone and made me hungry.
Have you ever tried adding tinned beetroot when you assemble your burger? I know it most probably sounds a little strange, but that is what's added to the typical Aussie burger. It's not half bad. :-)
LOL - No, I hadn't - sounds interesting - I will have to try it.
Although, Australia is not exactly famous for it's cuisine LOL
True...so very true. :-)
There's nothing like a good homemade burger. And I'm with you completeley on adding Worcestershire-- it just does amazing things for the overall flavor.
Great hub :-)
Australia not famous for its cuisine? Well, maybe not for its hamburgers, but the food in restaurants in all the capital cities is way above anything you'd find in the UK (at half the price). I also spent a couple of months touring Europe last year and was glad to get back to Sydney's chefs! Modern Australian cuisine is an amazing mixture of cultural influences and we have the advantage of excellent fresh produce, too. You'd be in heaven!
I will have to visit. England is not exactly famous for it's cuisine either, LOL
"England is not exactly famous for it's cuisine either." Well, that's true. But I was surprised to find the food in Italy and Greece ordinary. I went there expecting to taste the delicious original versions of the Mediterranean-influenced food I eat here, and was disappointed.
That's a shame - I would respectfully suggest that you went to the wrong places. like anywhere, if you know where to go - it's good. The UK and Oz included. :)
It's amazing that even on a full stomach, the mere mention of "hamburger" gets my mouth watering. Yum and yum! =)
Sounds very yummy. I love to experiment with "ordinary" foods. A few spices, a pinch of this, a little extra that, and you've got extraordinary! Cooking can be so creative and relaxing.
my mom has been making homemade burgers like this forever... and they are the best! now when I make them I just add a few more spices (like red pepper because I love spicey)
That would work. There is no "wrong" way for these. You can do them with minced lamb as well. Maybe with some cilantro or mint. It's all good.
This looks so good I'm running out right now to get the ingredients to try it!
ewwwwwwwwww
Tried it! Loved it! Guests loved it! Thanks!!!
Here in Cincy, we're famous for Chili-Spaghetti, particullarly Skyline Chili. My last batch of burgers (tailgaiting at the Bengals game) included some authentic Skyline Chili from the can (Kroger's Grocery) within the pattys, some cream cheese on the buns and sharp chedder. Basically the recipe for Skyline Chili Dip we eat with Fritos Scoops but on a burger. Turned out great! Burgers can be the foundation for nearly anything when you open your creative minds. Incidentally, the food was the best part of the day considering how the Ben-Gals are permorfing these days.
Prost!
I almost forgot the Hot Sauce! I usually blend it into the cream cheese.
Mark, your burgers are absolutely fantastic and very easy to prepare. Here in our home everybody just loved. Way better than fast food restaurants, and much healthier too I believe. Thanks for the recepie.
My pleasure - glad you enjoyed :)
Good one Mark!
Handed the recipe over to my wife. I would only mess up.
But...
I'm quite good in the 'consuming' part. :-)
not half bad, but keep on practicing
I loved the burgers. They were great
Glad to hear it J. Simple food is often th ebest.
Good job!! BBQ'd and turned out great!!!!
My pleasure. Glad you enjoyed :)
Have you heard of the Hottest Hamburger in the world? It's made in a small take-away place in Brisbane Queensland. They are working on a website, and as soon as I get it, I'll foreward it to you. All those who can eat (conquer) it, get their name put on a plaque, and later on the net. But get this, the day we went there (late in the afternoon), of the 30 or so who tried, only three could do it.
My wife did it!!! Not me. I value my taste buds too much. More on this later. :)
No - I hadn't heared of that - sounds awesome - hot as in spicy though?
I made the burger the way you showed and i got to say it is bloody lovly!! I tell ya, I'm going to show all my friends this and make then some! Thanks for telling us how to make a wonderful homemade burger!
My pleasure Kevin - Glad you enjoyed them :)
I use something similar to this. Try adding BBQ Sauce and Cracker crums as well. It is delicious.
your ingredients sound very good. Sometimes in food, experimenting in food is good, but simplicity can be even better.
@drummer boy - where do you put the crumbs?
@wakatak - no argument here :)
these burgers sound and look great im definatly going to use this at my daughters 6th birthday bbq thanks for the recipe.
Thanks dionne - let me know how they went down :)
i agree with you completely. Homemade hamburgers are the best and i'm always looking for a new way to spice them up a bit. will definitely give this recipe a try.
Hey Hey, great burgers, i agree, when you go to a fast food joint your not getting a real burger. one thing i did was fried the egg separate and put it on the meat with cheese in between. yum.
Mark,
Great recipe - A little addition to any great hamburger is a hard fried egg on top - I learned about this when living in Lake Charles, La - a couple of Mom and Pop restaurants served them like this locally and man was it good. So now that is the way we serve them at home all the time.
Yeah - I used to eat at a place called the "White Spot" and they do burgers that way - great after a few too many drinks at 2 am lol
WICKED RECIPE THANKS BUDD
oh my god.
Well dear, "England is not exactly famous for it's cuisine either." Well, that's true. But I was surprised to find the food in Italy and Greece ordinary. I went there expecting to taste the delicious original versions of the Mediterranean-influenced food I eat here, and was disappointed.
Sadly - everything seems to be headed down to the lowest common denominator - all over the world. :(
Thanks for the recipe, I can't wait to try it! However, I would like to add a word of caution for others. It is best to cook burgers well done (even if you like them better rarer). The reason for this is that unlike steaks (a whole cut of meat with bacteria only on the surface), burgers are made of ground up beef where bacteria have been distributed throughout all the meat. Burgers need to be cooked through in order to kill as many of the bacteria possible and reduce your chances of getting food poisoning. Don't get me wrong, I like my steaks medium to medium rare and I am definitely not a germaphobe, but I don't eat burgers undercooked even if the chances of me getting sick from it are small.
The chances of food poisoning from this are extremely small, but if that worries you - I recommend either buying a piece of sirloin and grinding it yourself - or finding a butcher that will do so the day you want to make the burgers. That way you can cook them rare if you wish.
blessedmommy says:
2 years ago
Yum, Yum. My hubby will love this, thanks!