Introduction: Beautiful Burgers

By www.facebook.com/stephen.taylor.
About: I am a Marine Engineer in the RNZN (45 years done in various navies) and am looking forward to retirement!!! so I can do more messing about with tools
I find shop bought burgers a little bland.
So as they are pretty easy to make, I'll make my own.
Most of the ingredients were raised on our lifestyle block, I bought stuffing and was given the cheese.

Supplies

Minced beef approx 500g or 1 pound

Half an onion

Egg

Sage and onion stuffing

Salt

Pepper

Haloumi cheese

Chilli flakes

Buns

Condiments as wanted

Step 1: Ingredient 1 Onion

Finely chop half an onion in a bowl.

Step 2: Ingredient 2 Minced Beef

Add the beef, I used about 500 grams (1 pound) of good quality meat. Ours came from one of our grass fed cows.

Step 3: Ingredients 3,4,5 and 6 Seasoning and Stuffing

Add approx 3 tablespoons of sage and onion stuffing or breadcrumbs and season to taste.

Just enough stuffing to slightly dry the patty

I used ground peppercorns and coarse sea salt, the chilli flakes are from the garden and are dried then ground in a coffee grinder

Step 4: Ingredient 7 Egg

Add an egg (from our chooks) the mix the whole lot together.
I find it's easier to just use your hands and mix it but I guess you could use a mixer if you wanted

Step 5: Mix It Up and Divide

Once completely mixed, divide into equal portions, I made 7 patties from this but you can make as many (or few) as you want.

Step 6: Ingredient 8 Haloumi Cheese

I got given a whole lot of this Chilli Haloumi cheese it is absolutely delicious.

Cut into strips and cook in a pan.

Step 7: Cook

I cooked the patties and Haloumi in very lightly oiled pans (virgin olive oil)

Step 8: Ingredient 9 the Bun

Bought some nice baps from the supermarket.
You can toast them if you want, I prefer untoasted.

Step 9: Assemble the Burger

The world is your lobster here,

Basic burger and cheese or add egg, mushrooms, lettuce, tomato, beetroot, pineapple.... go wild

I went with a little mayo, ketchup and sweet chilli sauce spread on the bun, shredded lettuce, sliced tomato and a little raw onion underneath, then topped with a sliced gherkin and the Haloumi cheese

Step 10: And Eat 😋

You can keep your 2 all beef patties, special sauce, lettuce, cheese, pickles, onions on a sesame seed bun. These were delicious. The crunch of the Haloumi with the moist burger was sensational.

Served with Beer Batter chips, ketchup and mayo