Tasty Beef & Pork Burgers

These Burgers are so simple to make it should be a crime not to try making them at least once. They cost around $5 each to make if you have one 100gm burger patty and use seasonal ingredients, like tomatoes when they are plentiful and cheap. Buying the mince when it’s on special and popping it in the freezer means you have it to hand at short notice.

Using a mix of beef and pork mince ensures the patties stay juicy when you cook them. You can make the meat mix a day prior to let the flavours infuse, but you don’t need to. You can add any flavour you choose. Sometimes we will add chili, we add fennel if we happen to have some in the fridge because pork and fennel are great mates. However we always use onion of some sort – white onion, red onion or spring onion. And we ALWAYS use fresh herbs.

This mix is also perfect to use for meatballs with pasta. Just roll the mix into small balls, panfry gently until almost cooked through, add your favourite pasta sauce, simmer for a few minutes to finish cooking the meatballs and serve with spaghetti.

Burger Servings – approximately 10 x 100gm patties

Ingredients

• 500gms Pork mince
• 500gms Beef mince
• ½ medium onion finely diced
• ½ small to medium fennel finely diced
• Handful of fresh herbs (Italian Parsley, Oregeno, Chives)
• ½ cup breadcrumbs
• Seasoning (salt & cracked pepper)
• 1 Egg
• Brioche buns – Pam’s brand
• Lettuce
• Tomato
• Aioli sauce – Cannonhill
• Cheese of your liking – we use ViaVio mozzarella

Method

1. Mix the meats, onion, fennel if you’re using it, and seasoning.
2. Add the egg to help bind the mix.
3. If you are making the mix the day before you intend to use it add the fresh herbs just before you make the patties.
4. Portion the meat mixture into 10 equal parts. make balls of mix then flatten them gently.
5. Cook the patties almost all the way through on a medium heat, turn once and put the cheese on the patty to melt while the second side cooks.
6. Toast the buns and slice the tomatoes
7. Choose your favourite sauces and mayos
8. Let the masses build their own burgers.