Well the sun is out and BBQ season is upon us, we have always loved cooking outside and have cooked all kinds of things fish wrapped in banana leaves, whole legs of lamb etc
A few years back we went to a friends for a BBQ and he had made his own burgers which is cool but he used horseradish sauce to bind them which i hadn't done in a burger before but had in kebabs and it hadn't really dawned on me to try in on burgers, of course they were really nice so i ditched the old favourite of egg to bind and am now fully converted into horse radish for binding, and make large batches of burgers for the freezer in the summer months in case the weather changes favourable to sunshine.
Ingredients
This recipe has no qtys as its a bit of this and that as you like it and you can use almost anything you prefer flavour wise for a tasty burger.
Mince beef, i buy Aberdeen Angus steak mince
Onions ( i use red onions for decoration)
Chilli (fresh, i used red for decoration)
Garlic (whole bulb, i like garlic and in a big batch it melts away)
Coriander (fresh)
Cumin seeds
Salt and pepper
a jar (and a half depending on how its binding) of horse radish sauce
Method
Gentle heat the cumin in a frying pan with no oil to release the flavours
To a food processor add the following and blitz up
add 1 or 2 onions
bunch of coriander
Cumin seeds
Garlic
Chillies
to you meat add the contents of the food processor and you horse radish sauce and mix well to fully incorporate all the ingredients.
with your hands, take a medium palm full of mix roll in your hands then pat down to make a burger shape, you will probably notice that your meat has changed from the rich red colour to a more paler pink due to the horse radish. The mix should feel like its well mixed but more importantly that you have nice firm patties, other wise when you come to cook these if they are to loose due to not enough horse radish or not mix well enough they will fall apart. I tend to use about 240g of horse radish, but it really depends on how much meat and onions you want to use.
Remember to wash your hands thoroughly as you have been handling fresh chillies. Make sure you fully defrost burgers you have frozen before cooking.
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