Pork & Beef Burgers

Burgers are adept all year round, but specially in the summer. These Pork & Beef Burgers are a riff on a favourite family recipe. They but may become a favourite for y'all and yours likewise.

From Meatball to Burger

Whenever I serve my Belgian meatballs, they're always met with rave reviews. One twenty-four hour period it occurred to me that I could get that same groovy flavour without all that rolling, rolling, rolling of private meatballs. Not that it'southward difficult to curlicue meatballs, mind you, but I was thinking of slapping that mixture of ground pork and beef scented with nutmeg into patties.

After all, if a Belgian meatball is delicious, how much better might it in a bun with archetype burger toppings?

And and so my Pork & Beefiness Burgers came to be.

Grill or Stove?

I rarely charcoal-broil these days, just I'thou certain these patties would grill upwards beautifully. I've been preparing them as I learned to brand those meatballs: browned in butter in a skillet and then finished in the oven. When y'all taste one, you lot just may forget well-nigh the charcoal-broil.

A Make-Alee Tip

While y'all might desire to cook a batch of these Pork & Beef Burgers right away, consider the convenience of having prepare-to-cook patties in the freezer whenever a burger craving strikes.

I've been freezing raw burger patties for years. I place the shaped patties on a parchment paper-covered tray and put it into the freezer. Once they're solid, I transfer them to a freezer-safety container. This technique ways I tin easily individually remove equally many as I need. And, they final 2 to three months this way.

Enjoy Your Pork & Beef Burgers

The mixture of pork and beef creates a rich burger, and the hint of nutmeg adds an aura of mysteriousness. Not anybody will be able to identify that subtle flavour, simply they'll know they like it.

In fact, they'll be crowding round every bit soon as they aroma that mouthwatering aroma as you pull a tray of burgers similar these out of the oven.

The mixture of pork and beefiness creates a rich burger, and the hint of nutmeg adds an aura of mysteriousness. The directions are for cooking the burgers on the stovetop and finished in the oven, just you could brand them on the charcoal-broil besides. Just make sure they're thoroughly cooked (to at least 160°F or across). While the recipe is written for 8 burgers, you could easily stretch information technology to at least ten.

Category: Main Course

Keyword: pork & beef burgers

Servings: viii burgers

Author: © Marlene Cornelis/UrbanCottageLife.com 2020

  • one lb extra-lean or lean ground beef
  • 1 lb basis pork
  • ii eggs
  • i/three cup fine breadcrumbs (whole wheat or white)
  • one tsp table salt
  • 3/iv tsp freshly footing black pepper
  • i/4 tsp freshly ground nutmeg
  • 2 tbsp butter
  1. Pre-rut the oven to 375℉. Line a blistering tray with parchment paper.

  2. Identify all the ingredients except the butter in a large bowl. Then, using a large fork or your hands, mix until everything is well incorporated. If you're unsure near the seasoning, grade a small patty from a tablespoon of the mixture and fry information technology and so you can gustatory modality it. (That's what I did!) Suit the salt, pepper and nutmeg as needed.

  3. Divide the mixture into eight portions and grade into patties. I make them adequately recall just quite large (four–five inches) in bore considering they'll nifty upwards during cooking.

  4. Over medium high heat, cook half of the butter in a large skillet. Add iv of the patties and chocolate-brown them well on both sides. At this phase, you're not cooking them through. The meat releases some fat as it'south browning, so a lot of butter isn't necessary. Repeat for the remaining patties. Place all the browned patties on the prepared blistering tray.

  5. Bake in the oven for twenty–25 minutes. They should be thoroughly cooked, to at least 160°F on a meat thermometer. I more often than not broil mine to around 180° and they're never dried out.

  6. Serve on the buns of your choice with a choice of condiments and fixin's.

For optional extra flavour, add about 1/three loving cup finely chopped onion to the meat mixture and/or a few tablespoons of ketchup.

Looking for Other Burger Ideas?

Looking dorsum, I encounter that two of my early posts on the blog were for burgers. (Early as in my nutrient photography skills were rudimentary at all-time.) Somehow this doesn't surprise me. The beginning was for chicken & turkey burgers, and the second was for beef burgers with wintry toppings. And although I don't telephone call them burgers, these Salmon, Potato & Lentil Cakes are a different spin on the burger concept.