Beef and blue cheese burger
- Serves 4
- Prep time: 10 mins | Cooking time: 10 mins
Burgers are a firm family favourite, elevated here to something pretty special: premium ground beef, sweet onion and fried mushrooms, and a wedge of salty blue cheese to set it all off.
Ingredients
600g premium beef mince
4 teaspoons olive oil
250g mushrooms, sliced
100g blue cheese, sliced
4 ciabatta rolls
butter or mayonaise (or both!)
4 pieces iceberg lettuce, torn
6 tablespoons caramelised onion
Method
Combine the mince with some salt and pepper in a bowl mixing with your hands.
Form into 4 patties, don't press the mixture together too much, you want it loose but holding together. Flatten the patties and make a small well in the middle of each. Set aside.
Heat the oven to 180ºC and warm the buns while you cook the rest (alternatively you can toast them).
Heat most of the oil in a frying pan and sauté the mushrooms with a little salt for about 5 minutes and set aside.
Heat a little more oil in the frying pan over a medium/high heat, add the patties and cook, turning once to desired doneness, about 5 minutes the first side and 3 minutes once flipped but this will depend on the thickness of your patty. Do not press the patty down when cooking as this squeezes out juices.
When you have turned the patty the first time, top with the cheese and it will melt as you finish cooking.
To assemble, spread the warm buns with butter or mayonnaise, top with lettuce then the patty and then the mushrooms, caramelised onion and finally top with the bun.
Add more
chopped fresh thyme or sage into the patty mix
a fried egg to make even more substantial meal
rashers of crisp fried streaky bacon for tasty crunch
Perfect Partner
A ripe, savoury red wine pulls the burger components together: try Dashwood Marlborough Pinot Noir.