subject: Best Quality Grilled Hamburger Recipe [print this page] High quality hamburger patties are completely prepared with ground beef and seasonings. This kind of patty can be described as an all beef hamburger or all beef patties to distinguish them from inexpensive hamburgers made with added flour, texturised vegetable protein, or other fillers to decrease their cost. Some cooks prepare their patties with binders, such as eggs, or bread crumbs, and seasonings, like parsley, onions, soy sauce, Thousand Island dressing, onion soup mix or Worcestershire sauce.
There is an escalating popularity of new types of burgers that use alternatives to ground beef as the main ingredient. For example a turkey burger used ground turkey meat, a chicken burger uses ground chicken meat and a buffalo burger, uses ground meat from a bison and some mix cow and buffalo meat, thus making a beefalo burger. Additionally burgers can be made by mixing seafood or lamb with beef. A veggie burger, garden burger, or tofu burger uses meat analogue, a meat substitute such as tofu, TVP, seitan (wheat gluten), quorn, beans, grains, or an assortment of vegetables, ground up and mashed into patties.
Regardless of what meat is used to make the hamburger patties however, the most tender hamburger patties are cooked through the cooking method of grilling. This way, the patties are not dried out and will keep some level of moisture.
Grilled Hamburger Recipes
1.Juicy Grilled Hamburgers
Ingredients
1 lb. Lean ground beef
3 tbsp. Chopped onions
3 tbsp. Catsup
1 tbsp. Worcestershire sauce
1 tsp. Salt
tsp. Pepper
Dash of Tabasco sauce
Method
Mix all ingredients together well and put covered combination in the refrigerator for several hours to marinate, before grilling. Form burger patties in a dish with vertical sides to prevent a thin dried edge when cooked.
2.Grilled Hamburgers with Sour Cream and Herbs
Ingredients
2 2/3 lb. Lean ground beef
c. Sour cream
1 tbsp. Minced fresh thyme or 1 tsp. Dried, crumbled
1 tbsp. Fresh parsley
1 tsp. Minced fresh rosemary or tsp. Dried, crumbled
tsp. Pepper
8 hamburger buns
Method
Thoroughly combine first 6 ingredients in a medium bowl. Mould beef mixture into eight 1 inch thick patties. Cover and chill at least 60 minutes and up to 8 hours.
Make barbecue over medium to high heat. Place burgers on grill. Cover grill and cook burgers for 4 minutes. Turn burgers. Cover grill and cook burgers on reverse side to desired doneness, about 4 minutes for medium rare.
Grill buns, cut side down, during the last 2 minutes if desired. Arrange burgers on bottom halves of buns. Cover burgers with bun tops and serve as desired
