Hamburger ハンバーガー

Hamburgers have always been one of Axel's favourite dishes, though most certainly not the Mc Donalds or First Kitchen kind, only home made is good enough. Mostly called "junk food" hamburgers have a really undeserved bad reputation. Made from good meat, served with fresh vegetables and nice bread the American national dish is really quite nutritious, varied and tasty!

Through the years we have tried many different hamburger recipes, but with inspiration from the Swedish food magazine Buffé this one is one of the more interesting.

Hamburger (4 port.)
Burger

• 400-500 g minced beef
• 1 egg
• bread crumbs
• salt & pepper (black & white)

Sauce/Glazing

• 1 dl ketchup
• 3 tbs dark sugar
• 1 tbs apple cider vinegar
• paprika powder

Vegetables & Bread

• 8 buns
• 4 stir fried eggs
• 120 g bacon
• green salad
• tomato
• green peppers (ピーマン)
• red onion
• cucumber

 Start by make the glazing (it can simmer while making the burgers). Warm up a small pot on medium heat and pour the ketchup and vinegar. Melt the sugar in the mix when the pot is warm and spice with paprika powder to your liking.

Mix the minced beef with one egg and salt, white pepper and black pepper. If the mix has too much liquid, add some bread crumbs to give the burgers more solidity. Heat up the frying pan (should be quite warm) and stir fry the bacon first. Take out the bacon and let dry on household paper. If you feel the bacon is too much you can simply skip it and use a little butter instead. Spread glaze (a cooking brush is handy here) on one side of the burgers and put it towards the pan and then add glaze on the other side as well. Stir fry the burgers in batches so that the pan never too crowded. Stir fry the eggs (Axel likes "over easy" as Val and Geoff might know;) last.

Serve with fresh vegetables and bread. The glazing can also be used for extra sauce in the hamburger. How tall a burger can YOU build?