At first glance, it seems that preparing a burger is as easy as shelling pears: cut a bun in half, spread with ketchup or mustard, put a lettuce leaf, a couple of onion rings and a cutlet carefully prepared by your mother or grandmother between the halves, add pickles - and the burger is ready.
But not everything is so simple: not just any bun will do, and the cutlet needs to be cooked using a special technology, and the vegetables need to be placed in a certain order so that the burger doesn’t become soggy and fall apart into its components right in your hands.
In today's review, we're sharing some cool tips on how to cook the perfect burger. Take it into service!
Sometimes you really want some unhealthy fast food!
So what's the deal?
Hamburgers, cheeseburgers and other popular sandwiches are easy to make at home.
Round buns are sold in many stores, but it is better to prepare the burger patty yourself.
It will turn out tastier, healthier and safer.
Burger cutlets - general cooking principles
To prepare cutlets, different types of meat and poultry are used. Lard may be added. They also add vegetables, eggs, and spices. It is believed that to prepare perfect cutlets, minced meat must be chopped by hand with a knife. But more and more often they resort to kitchen assistants: a meat grinder, a food processor, a blender.
From the prepared minced meat I form round and flat cutlets in the form of tablets. The size should match the bun or be slightly larger. The products are fried in a frying pan or baked in the oven. A grill or barbecue can be used.
Burgers from Miratorg company
All semi-finished products are prepared from 100% natural ingredients and are made only from marbled beef, which is raised in accordance with all rules and standards. For taste, only spices and salt are added to the finished product; there are no flavor enhancers or GMOs. To prepare, fry each cutlet on both sides for 5 minutes. To make the burger juicy, you need to wait and let the meat cool a little. The products are in special packaging that maintains quality throughout the entire period.
Angus burger Mirotorg with mustard sauce
For all fast food lovers, there is a good opportunity to prepare an interesting dish without leaving home. Supermarkets offer a variety of semi-finished meat products from different companies to choose from, but the Miratorg Angus Burger is considered one of the best. The company owns a large herd of Black Angus cattle, so all products are made only from marbled beef. The price is low compared to others and fully corresponds to the quality of the finished dish. The angus cutlet has a pleasant and delicate taste with a hint of piquancy. It comes complete with crispy cucumber rings, all inside a soft sesame seed bun.
It doesn’t take much time to prepare it, because it’s enough to heat the burger in the microwave for 2 minutes without defrosting and the black angus burger is ready. This dish is much better than what McDonald's and Burger King offer.
FACT! Additionally, there is no need to bake in the oven, so the Angus beef in this product is ready to eat immediately after heating.
Chickenburger with creamy mushroom sauce Mirotorg
Most people who have tried this chicken burger give it positive reviews. All ingredients are natural:
- chicken cutlet;
- onion rings;
- tomato;
- cucumbers;
- sauce with added mushroom pieces.
Beef & Chick Burger Mirotorg
The original recipe and Mexican sauce will take everyone into the atmosphere of a real rodeo. The combination of chicken and black angus beef will please anyone who likes to eat quickly. The large size will help satisfy your hunger and serve as a complete dinner or lunch. It is sold in convenient and modern plastic packaging and is immediately ready for use after heating in the microwave.
Black Jack Burger Mirotorg
To cook this famous burger, you don’t have to look for recipes and select ingredients. The Miratorg company has released semi-finished products with a signature whiskey-based sauce in large sizes. The meat for these burgers is of good quality, as every year a rodeo is held among the employees, where farm workers participate in competitions and show their skills in caring for animals.
Cheeseburger with cheese sauce Mirotorg
If you don’t have time or make a cheeseburger yourself, you can buy products from Miratorg with cheese sauce. For this you only need a microwave. A few minutes and a hearty snack is ready.
ADVICE! If you don't have a microwave at home, you can use the oven. Place cheeseburger in foil to warm for 6 minutes.
Burger cutlets Mirotorg
The company selects meat only from marbled beef, predominantly of the Black Angus breed. This meat produces only juicy and tasty hamburgers. The preparation of such products requires a minimum amount of time and effort. Reasons why people choose Mirotorg:
- The meat is used from its own producers, so the company vouches for quality.
- Good shelf life.
- Fast defrosting.
By combining different ingredients, you can surprise your home every time with hearty and natural burgers from Miratorg.
Mini beef burger
Juicy and satisfying burgers can now be prepared in a small format in your own kitchen. The Mirotorg company has the best price-quality ratio, and it has released cutlets in mini format for a small homemade snack. The packaging is cardboard, it includes 5 pieces of finished products. There is a strip on the side that you need to pull to open. The box shows an assembly diagram for the finished burger, which is convenient and does not require searching for a recipe on the Internet.
There are two ways to prepare products:
- in a frying pan;
- Grilled.
ADVICE! You don't need to add a lot of oil, it's better to just grease the surface of the pan with a brush so that the cutlets don't burn at the beginning. No defrosting is required; each one is cooked 5 minutes until golden brown. For a burger, take buns and add salad, prepare sauce, cheese, and cucumbers.
Beef burger Mirotorg
Only the best cuts are used to prepare hamburger meat. To do this, take tender meat from the neck, brisket and shoulder blades. This gives the burger juiciness and exquisite taste. All semi-finished products are well packaged, the film is well sealed on top, and all the information about the product is written on it: composition, expiration date. The products are already chilled, so there is no need to waste time defrosting. Just put a few pieces in a frying pan and fry for 4-5 minutes on both sides.
ADVICE! Add less vegetable oil, this will release fat from the meat during frying.
Advantages of products from Mirotorg:
- moderately salty and no unnecessary spices;
- good texture;
- no cartilage or hard veins;
- juicy cutlets without excess fat;
- semi-finished products are quickly prepared and completely fried;
- natural taste, no chemicals are felt.
Black Angus burger Mirotorg
The meat meets all the requirements for high-quality marbled beef. It contains layers of fat, which during cooking will make the dish juicy and aromatic. Black angus is only natural beef, which is seasoned with spices and is the best basis for an interesting and satisfying dish. With this composition, black burgers can be given even to children. Before cooking, you need to defrost the product for 10-15 minutes, and then fry in a frying pan until cooked.
Pork burger Mirotorg
Juicy cutlets from Miratorg with a pleasant and tasty smell of meat are ideal for this dish. They have a chopped consistency; they need to be fried over medium heat with minimal addition of oil, as some of the fat will come out during cooking. The spicy and salty taste of the finished product goes well with the rest of the burger ingredients.
Chicken burger Mirotorg
The Miratorg company has a special set of four cutlets, each individually packaged. According to the manufacturer's recommendation, there are two ways to cook: in a frying pan or bake in the oven for 20 minutes. The finished burger is tasty and juicy.
Many people think that the classic recipe for a chicken burger or cheeseburger is very simple, but it is not so. It's not about the cooking process itself, but about choosing the right ingredients and how much to cook each of them. Let's look at all the stages.
Some people advise making minced meat yourself, but now there are many organizations that can offer their products. Miratorg burger patties are prepared only from marbled Black Angus beef, which confirms the excellent quality of the meat. It is easy to fry without a lot of oil, as it contains enough natural fat.
Many recipes do not tell you how long to heat the pan. However, this is an important element in the burger cooking process, 2-3 minutes will be enough. The cutlet needs to be fried 5 times on each side.
Assemble the finished burger, add slices of cheese, vegetables and herbs to it.
Burgers from Mirotorg turn out especially tasty if you add cheese sauce to them.
ADVICE! If this process takes a lot of time, you can buy a ready-made one from Miratorg.
Recipe 1: Regular beef burger patties
To prepare traditional burger patties you will need a minimum set of ingredients. But it is very important to fully comply with the technology so that it turns out not only tasty, but also very juicy.
- 2 cloves of garlic;
1. It is very important to chop the meat correctly. To prepare a real burger, this is done by hand. We wash the piece and cut it into layers across the grain. We beat each piece with a hammer. Then cut into very thin strips and into cubes.
2. Add chopped onion and garlic cloves to the resulting minced meat. Mix thoroughly. You cannot add seasonings, otherwise the meat will release juice.
3. Form balls from the resulting mass, then flatten each one in the palm of your hand. You can use a cooking ring to ensure that the products are even.
4. Place them on a flat dish and put them in the refrigerator for half an hour until the mass sets.
5. Mix salt with a pinch of pepper. You can add other spices to them to taste.
6. Rub the chilled cutlets on both sides with seasonings and fry in a frying pan with added oil. You can use the grill.
How to shape a cutlet
A proper cutlet should have the shape of a perfectly round flat washer. This can be achieved using a special burger patty press made of stainless steel, aluminum or food-grade plastic. If you don’t have such a device at hand, you can use a small cooking ring. If you don’t have one, you can cut out a mold of suitable size from a tin can or a two-liter plastic bottle (a one and a half liter bottle will be narrow).
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It is important to consider: the size of the minced meat piece should be 11-12 cm in diameter. Since the meat is fried, the width of the cutlet will be slightly less than 10 cm.
You need to form the products from chilled minced meat, moistening your palms with cold water or periodically wiping them with ice cubes. Then the mass will not stick to your hands and you will be able to make elastic and dense pieces of the desired shape. Please note that their thickness should be approximately 2-2.5 cm. If you make them thinner, the finished products will turn out to be dry, and thick ones will not be cooked well inside.
Recipe 2: Minced burger patties
For these cutlets you will need ground beef or a mixture of it and pork. In the second option, it is undesirable to use a lot of lard, otherwise the shape of the cutlets will change during frying.
- 3 tablespoons of seasoning for meat;
- 50 grams of ketchup.
1. Place the minced meat in a bowl and add any ketchup to it, stir thoroughly. The meat should absorb it completely.
2. Add some spices for the meat. They usually contain salt, just add a pinch and knead.
Cutlets from James Oliver
This recipe for ground beef burgers is sure to win the hearts of many gourmets who prefer delicious homemade food. To prepare minced meat according to the recipe invented by this famous chef, you need to take 500 g of beef, thoroughly prepare the meat for cooking, and then chop it into very small pieces with a knife. Then pour 1/4 cup of light beer into the meat mass and, adding ground black pepper, mix thoroughly. Reviews about this cooking technology often say that when using slightly frozen meat, the finished cutlets are more juicy and, as a result, much tastier.
From the available ground beef for burgers, you should form patties of the same size, the thickness of which will not exceed 1.5 cm. Each of them must be salted and fried on a preheated grill over high heat (until a crust forms), and then, turning to the other side, reduce heat to medium. Before finishing the process of cooking the cutlets, you need to put a slice of cheese on each of them.
Recipe 3: Chicken Burger Cutlets
Chicken burger cutlets can be made from breast meat. In this case, you will get a dietary option. They can also be prepared from samples from the thigh. Such products are more delicate. Sometimes they are made from chicken with skin on. The cutlets are fattier and juicier. Choose a product option to suit your taste.
- 0.2 tsp. cayenne pepper;
- 40 ml olive oil;
- 1 onion.
1. Prepare the minced meat. To do this, wash the chicken pieces and grind them through a meat grinder. Choose a mesh with large holes. In this case, the minced meat will look like chopped mass.
2. Peel the onion and twist it after the chicken. Mix everything together, add cayenne pepper and salt.
3. Now pour a spoonful of vegetable olive oil into the minced meat and you can start making cutlets. We form flat and round products in the form of cakes, about one centimeter thick.
4. Place the cutlets on a board and place in the refrigerator for 20 minutes.
5. Heat the remaining recipe oil and fry the cutlets on both sides. At the end, cover and let simmer over low heat for three minutes.
Recipe 4: Herb Burger Patties
Recipe for aromatic cutlets, for which you will need herbs: cumin, basil and oregano. But you can take any others to your taste. Some people use a mixture of Provençal herbs. In this case, we adjust the quantity to your taste.
— 0.5 kg of ground beef;
- 5 spoons of crackers;
- 1 pinch of cumin;
- 0.5 tsp each oregano and basil;
— 1 spoon of oil for minced meat + for frying;
1. Mix cumin with herbs, add oil to them, which will go into the minced meat and leave for now to release the aroma.
2. Place the egg and salt into the minced beef, add herbs and butter and mix the mixture thoroughly. It will turn out dense and stuffed. That's how it should be.
3. Divide the minced meat into 5 equal parts and roll into balls.
4. Place it on your palm and flatten it one by one to the desired thickness. Usually they make thin cakes of 4-5 millimeters.
5. Now carefully sprinkle the products with breadcrumbs. Instead, you can take grated stale bread.
6. That's it! All you have to do is fry the cutlets until done on each side and you can cook homemade burgers.
Basic recipe for cooking a burger over a campfire
To cook burgers over a campfire, you don’t have to use recipes with photos. It's a simple process. You need to make cutlets from homemade minced meat and fry them on the grill until cooked.
Lightly toast the buns on the back side. Place a leaf of lettuce on the bottom bun, then a piece of tomato, a cutlet on top, then onion rings (they can be marinated in vinegar in advance), pickled cucumbers. Lightly coat each layer with sauce. The top layer is the second bun.
What does a cooked burger look like when grilled?
Recipe 5: Burger patties with cheese
The recipe for very tasty cutlets, which are prepared with the addition of cheese to the minced meat. This technique prevents the products from falling apart in the pan, makes it easier to turn and allows you to cook very thin meat cakes. A burger with them will definitely fit in your mouth!
- 1 small onion;
- 50 grams of hard cheese;
- 1 tsp. wheat flour;
- 1 tsp. dry dill;
- 1 spoon of ketchup.
1. Twist the veal together with the onions. Or we turn it into minced meat using a food processor.
2. Add grated hard cheese and immediately ketchup to the mixture, add salt and stir thoroughly.
3. Combine wheat flour with paprika, dry dill (the grass should be small), you can add a little coriander. Mix.
Vegetarian cutlets
A homemade burger with a cutlet is not necessarily meat. For those who love experiments - a recipe for beet cutlets with bulgur.
You will need:
- Beetroot – 3 pcs.;
- Lentils – 100 gr;
- Bulgur – 100 gr;
- Cashews – 30 g;
- Champignons – 200 gr;
- Onion – 1 pc.;
- Thyme – 1 tsp;
- Olive oil – 2 tbsp;
- Salt pepper.
Preparation:
- Cut the beets into rings and place on a baking sheet lined with foil. Bake in the oven for 20 minutes at 180 degrees.
- Pour two glasses of water over the lentils and put on fire. Bring the water to a boil, then simmer over low heat for 30 minutes.
- Pour a glass of boiling water over the bulgur. Keep on high heat for another 15 minutes.
- Chop the onions and mushrooms. Fry in olive oil and thyme until the mushrooms are soft.
- Grind cashews in a food processor. Add all the other ingredients there. Stir until smooth.
- Form 6 cutlets from the resulting mass. Fry in a pan for 3-4 minutes.
Natural yogurt without additives goes well as a sauce with these cutlets. For vegetables, lettuce and tomatoes will suffice.
Recipe 6: Burger cutlets in the oven
For brass cutlets you will need mixed minced veal and pork. If you use only beef, the cutlets will be tough and dry. There are a few little tricks to help avoid this.
— 50 grams of butter (freeze);
- 2 spoons of breadcrumbs;
- 1 clove of garlic;
1. We twist the meat through a meat grinder, you can do this twice.
2. Add garlic, which needs to be peeled and chopped. You can twist the clove along with the meat.
3. Add the yolk, salt, pepper and beat the mass thoroughly.
4. Divide the minced meat into 5-6 cutlets, depending on the desired size. Form a tight ball, then flatten it.
5. Roll the cutlets in breadcrumbs.
6. Grease the mold with vegetable oil and lay out the prepared products.
7. Place in the oven and cook at 200 degrees for 15 minutes.
8. Take a piece of butter out of the freezer and immediately remove the cutlets from the oven. Take a grater and rub butter on top of the cutlets.
9. Put the products back in the oven and cook for about fifteen more minutes.
Recipe 7: Juicy Chicken Burger Cutlets
Recipe for chopped cutlets, which are prepared based on meat in French. They are ideal not only for burgers, but also for any other open or closed sandwiches. Chicken fillet is used.
- 2 tablespoons of sour cream;
- 2 tablespoons of starch;
1. Cut the fillet into cubes and combine with sour cream.
2. Add the onion cut into small cubes. The pieces should be smaller in size than the chicken, this is mandatory.
3. Salt and pepper the minced meat, add the raw egg and stir well. Leave to marinate for an hour. You can put it in the refrigerator overnight. It will taste better.
4. Take out the previously prepared mass and add two tablespoons of starch to it, stir.
5. Pour a little oil into the frying pan and add the minced meat with a large spoon. Give the flatbread a round shape and fry on one side.
6. Turn over, cover and cook under the lid for about five minutes. Place on paper napkins to absorb excess fat and you are ready to cook the burger!
Preparation
Do not use the spatula intensively and turn the cutlet every 30 seconds. When one side is cooked through, turn the cutlet over and cook the other side.
Don't let anyone tell you what should be inside. It is better to decide on the filling in advance. Of course, there are many different combinations of ingredients, depending solely on individual preference. The classic formula for a burger consists of a set: cheese, pickles, sauce, lettuce and tomatoes.
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Recipe 8: Burger cutlets with vegetables
Another recipe for cutlets that are cooked in the oven, but only after frying in a frying pan. Vegetables are added to the cutlet mass, which make the products especially juicy. You can use any meat: chicken, beef, pork and turkey.
- 0.05 grams of sweet pepper;
- 2 cloves of garlic;
1. Twist the meat together with onions, garlic and peeled carrots.
2. Add egg and spices to the minced meat.
3. Cut the bell pepper into small cubes and also add it to the cutlet mixture.
4. Stir the minced meat thoroughly and beat it.
5. Form 5 round cutlets and sprinkle each with flour.
6. Turn on the frying pan, pour in the oil and heat it up very well.
7. Place the cutlets and quickly fry until golden brown. A minute on each side is enough.
8. Transfer to the pan, cover with foil on top and place in the oven for 20 minutes. After 10 minutes, remove the foil and allow the crust to fry more deeply.
How to cook the perfect burger: 10 cool tips
Of course, it is tempting to buy ready-made minced meat at the supermarket on the way home so as not to waste time preparing it. But in this case, it’s better to immediately abandon the idea of cooking a burger - in 9 cases out of 10 it will turn out dry and tasteless. To make the burger patty perfect, don’t be too lazy to prepare the minced meat yourself from fresh meat.
A burger is by no means a dietary dish. Therefore, do not skimp on fat: ideally, the ratio of meat to fat in minced meat should be 80 to 20 (80% meat and 20% fat) or even 75 to 25 (75% meat and 25% fat). For example, minced meat made from 2/3 lean beef (shoulder) and 1/3 fatty beef (flank) is perfect for a burger.
The perfect cutlet requires no additional ingredients other than salt and pepper. No onions, garlic, and certainly no bread, potatoes or eggs, which housewives like to add to regular cutlets.
An ideal cutlet should also be perfect in shape. If you cook burgers quite often, buy a special press; if not, a regular cooking ring will do. Don't forget that your cutlet will fry during cooking, so make it a little larger than you want to end up with.
Refrigerate the mince before shaping the burger patties. Otherwise, the fat contained in it will stick to the mold and work surface. But not only the minced meat itself should be cold, but also your hands and the tools you use. Therefore, keep the culinary ring or press in the freezer, and periodically wipe your hands with an ice cube while forming cutlets.
Once the cutlet is formed, forget about it until the very moment of frying: the less you touch the cutlet, the greater the chance that it will not fall apart on the grill or frying pan.
Fry the burgers in a well-heated frying pan or grill, adding a couple of tablespoons of vegetable oil.
Approximate frying time is 5-8 minutes on each side. Remember that the longer you fry the cutlet, the less juicy and flavorful it will be.
Everything is simple here: now in every supermarket you can buy a special burger bun sprinkled with sesame seeds. But if you haven’t found any, then any will do, the main thing is that it does not contain any additives that distract from the taste of the meat.
Any cheese you like can be used on the burger. The main thing is its location: to prevent the cheese from becoming too wet from the meat juices, place it on the bottom bun.
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Step by step recipe
The cutlets are fried without oil, so use a non-stick frying pan or grill pan. The grill pan ensures frying over high heat, but does not allow the cutlets to burn, since the minced meat only touches the convex strips.
To make the cutlet dense, use a molding ring. With its help, you can form even cutlets of the same size and press them with a press, so the minced meat will not fall apart in the pan.
Choose chilled minced meat, not frozen. Thawed minced meat will not stick together.
We took ground beef and pork in a 3:1 ratio and mixed them ourselves. Cutlets made only from beef will turn out dry, and cutlets made from pork only - fatty.
Combine ground beef and pork.
No gluing components are added to the meat. To make the minced meat homogeneous, beat it: lift it above the table and forcefully throw it down 7-10 times.
It is important to add salt and seasonings immediately before frying. Salt added too early will draw water out of the minced meat and the cutlets will turn out tough.
Divide the minced meat into 3 parts. Place each part into a molding ring and press with a press or the flat bottom of a glass so that the cutlets are flat and there are no voids inside. Cover the cutlets with cling film (this will prevent them from airing) and place in the refrigerator for 40-60 minutes so that the minced meat sticks together.
You can make cutlets without a molding ring, but make sure that they are as dense as possible.
The diameter of the patty should match the diameter of the burger bun.
Place the cutlets on a hot frying pan. Salt and pepper the cutlet, add paprika and dried garlic. Fry over high heat on both sides for 2-3 minutes until crust appears. Reduce heat to medium and fry on both sides for another 5-7 minutes.
Place the finished burger patties on a bun, add vegetables and sauce and serve.
- Author: Maria Sukhorukikh
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Recipe for chopped hamburger cutlets at home with photo
Cooking time: 15 minutes.
Kitchen appliances: knife, cutting board, containers for ingredients, frying pan, kitchen spatula.
Ingredients
- Beef – 400 g.
- Salt and pepper - one pinch each.
- Spices - according to your taste.
- Butter.
How to choose ingredients for a cutlet
First of all, you need to decide how many of these cutlets you want to cook. In order to cook one single cutlet, you will need from one hundred twenty to two hundred grams of fresh beef.
The cutlets are prepared so large in size for a reason. This allows you to preserve the wonderful taste of beef and add juiciness to the finished dish. Also, as if in addition, such one cutlet is also very filling.
The main ingredient - beef - must be chosen with special attention. It must be fresh, free from deformations and any diseases. To do this, I advise you to check the documents for the product offered to you. Let's get started with the hamburger cutlet recipe.
Step by step recipe
- First, you need to prepare the minced meat itself, and then start preparing and shaping the cutlets. To do this, take four hundred grams of fresh beef, wash it thoroughly and dry it a little.
- Cut the beef into small strips and then cut all the slices into cubes. The size of each cube should be approximately two by two millimeters.
- Gather the finished chopped minced meat into a cutlet shape and beat it with your hands. To do this, you need to firmly “slap” the cutlet on the work surface several times. You can also beat the cutlet with your hands. Using a kitchen spatula, form into a flat cake.
- Salt and pepper the formed cutlet. That's all, in less than 10 minutes you have a ready cutlet. All that remains is to fry it.
- Heat a frying pan and coat its surface with butter. Place the cutlet on the heated surface and fry on each side for three minutes. Pay a lot of attention to this stage of cooking, as you should not overcook the cutlet.
- The finished cutlet can be turned into a full-fledged burger! Let's move on to the next recipe, which will also allow you to learn how to cook a hamburger patty, but only in a different form.
