How To Make Hamburger Patties

How To Make Hamburger Patties
How To Make Hamburger Patties

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The first hamburger was sold in the United States over two centuries ago. Since then, it has conquered all continents, but in Europe it is still associated with the so-called "fast" and unhealthy food. Meanwhile, in America itself, supermarkets sell high-quality lean beef chops for homemade hamburgers. A home-made hamburger is by no means the most unhealthy food.

How to make hamburger patties
How to make hamburger patties

It is necessary

    • For the lean cutlet:
    • 500 g beef fillet;
    • 5 tbsp bread crumbs;
    • 1 egg;
    • 1 tsp ground cumin;
    • 1 tsp ground coriander;
    • 1 tsp dry oregano;
    • salt
    • pepper.
    • For cutlets with lard:
    • 300 g lean pork;
    • 500 g of beef;
    • 100 g lard;
    • 4 tsp dry seasoning from a mixture of coriander
    • oregano
    • cumin;
    • 2 onions.
    • For cutlets
    • cooked in the oven:
    • 400 g lean beef;
    • 400 g of fatty veal;
    • 1 tsp salt;
    • 0.5 tsp ground black pepper.

Instructions

Step 1

Lean hamburger patty

Take a fresh beef fillet, rinse, cut into pieces and grind in a meat grinder. Add breadcrumbs, an egg to the minced meat, mix, add spices, salt and pepper, mix thoroughly again.

Step 2

Moisten your hands with cold water, divide the minced meat into equal balls, from each ball, make a round cake two to two and a half centimeters thick. Heat some vegetable oil in a heavy-bottomed skillet and fry the patties on both sides for eight to ten minutes.

Step 3

Hamburger cutlet with lard

Wash the meat, peel the onions, cut them into pieces, add the chopped unsalted bacon, mince, salt and pepper the minced meat, add spices.

Step 4

Form the minced meat into flat cakes with a thickness of one and a half to two centimeters, the size of a bun, into which the cutlet will be inserted. Fry over high heat in a skillet, with a little vegetable oil (you can do without oil, just put the cakes on a hot skillet with a thick bottom, use a thick-walled skillet with a wire mesh bottom) for two to three minutes on each side.

Step 5

Oven hamburger patties

Take fresh beef fillet and fatty veal, for example, intercostal meat, where meat and fat are about half. Cut, pass through a meat grinder with a coarse grate, add salt and pepper to the minced meat, mix. Divide the minced meat into five round cutlets one and a half to two centimeters thick, put on parchment paper and refrigerate for two hours.

Step 6

Preheat the oven to 250 ° C, put the cutlets on the wire rack, put a baking sheet under the wire rack, covering it with paper (for dripping fat). Place the wire rack and baking sheet in the oven for fifteen to twenty minutes.

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