I make no claim to this being the “best” burger recipe but would include it on a list of practical, never fail and tasty burger recipes for all ages. My lifelong search for the perfect grilled burger recipe has taken me on a long meandering journey of trial and error,
while forcing me to make a few concessions….mostly to cost. Where it was rather easy to have some success with ingredients that
produced a delicious $4 burger patty, reducing that cost to something more affordable became the challenge. Along the way I also had to deal with the
additional challenges of “burger crumble”, where the patty falls apart on the grill no matter how careful the cook is and “stomach rumbles”
where a heavily spiced burger will upon occasion cause an unpleasant reaction to the digestive system.
I feel that I have found a simple way to make a delicious and juicy burger that can be served to just about anyone from pre-teens to seniors and
it comes in at around $1.30 cost per burger. Slightly more if you cannot find the ingredients on sale.
Ingredients: [‘extra lean ground beef’, ‘lean ground chicken’, ‘egg’, ‘onion’, ‘seasoned bread crumbs’, ‘onion soup mix’, ‘beef bouillon powder’, ‘black pepper’, ‘garlic powder’, ‘worcestershire sauce’, ‘soy sauce’, ‘mustard’]
Quantity of Ingredients: [“1 lb extra lean ground beef”,”1/2 lb lean ground chicken”,”1 large egg”,”1 onion, medium sized finely diced “,”1 cup seasoned bread crumbs”,”1 (40 g) packet onion soup mix”,”1 (5 g) packet beef bouillon powder (OXO or similar)”,”1/2 teaspoon black pepper (to taste)”,”3/4 teaspoon garlic powder”,”1 tablespoon Worcestershire sauce”,”3 tablespoons soy sauce”,”4 tablespoons mustard (or 2 tablespoons of mustard powder)”]
Number of Servings: 4
Steps: [‘Directions:’, ‘Place the finely chopped onion into a large mixing bowl, pour the packet of onion soup mix on top of the onions and then.’, ‘add all of the remaining ingredients except the bread crumbs while stirring. Slowly add the bread crumbs until a dry and thick.’, ‘paste is produced. The goal is to produce a dry paste thick enough to stand a spoon up.’, ‘In a small mixer (or by hand) combine the ground beef, ground chicken and bread crumb paste until consistently mixed.’, ‘Using a kitchen scale, weigh out 10 x 150 gram or 5.3 ounce patties, a nice big size that seems to fit all full sized burger buns.’, ‘There will be a bit left over which can be used for about 6-8 30 gram meatballs or one more burger patty.’, ‘Preparation tricks:’, ‘I use a small digital kitchen scale to measure out the patties, then compress them in a patty stacker tube for a consistent thickness.’, ‘From there the edges are formed by hand to make them less “production line” looking. The meatballs are frozen for future use in quantities of 12-24.’, ‘and they are really good tasting meatballs!’]