The Real Burger

By lihui

4 Person

20 Minutes

0 Calories

Take a nice-looking chuck roast, or well-marbled sirloin steaks or some pork or lamb shoulder. Cut the meat into one- to two-inch cubes, and pulse it with the regular steel blade until it’s chopped. The food processor is not the best tool for this job. For better results, you should use the meat grinding attachment for the kitchen aid. Get the blade and all-metal attachments very cold in the fridge or freezer.

Ingredients

Pepper
Salt
1/2 White onion, peeled and in chunks, optional
2 pounds Not-too-lean sirloin, in chunks

Method

01

Start a charcoal or wood fire or preheat a gas grill. Or, on stove top, heat a large, heavy skillet over medium-high heat for 3 or 4 minutes.
02

Put meat and onion in a food processor, in batches if necessary, and pulse until coarsely ground: finer than chopped, but not much. Put it in a bowl and sprinkle with salt and pepper. Taste, then add more seasoning if necessary. (If desired, cook a teaspoon of meat in a pan before tasting.) Handling meat as little as possible to avoid compressing it, shape it lightly into 4 or more burgers.
03

Fire is hot enough when you can barely stand to hold your hand 3 or 4 inches over rack for a few seconds. Grill burgers about 3 minutes a side for very rare, and another minute a side for each increasing stage of doneness, but no more than 10 minutes total unless you like hockey pucks. (Timing on stove top is the same.)
04

Serve on buns, toast or hard rolls, garnished as you like.

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The Real Burger

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01 Information

Grade easy
Serving 4 servings
Total Time 20 Mins

02 Ingredients

Pepper

Salt

1/2 White onion, peeled and in chunks, optional

2 pounds Not-too-lean sirloin, in chunks

03 Method

Step 1

Start a charcoal or wood fire or preheat a gas grill. Or, on stove top, heat a large, heavy skillet over medium-high heat for 3 or 4 minutes.

Step 2

Put meat and onion in a food processor, in batches if necessary, and pulse until coarsely ground: finer than chopped, but not much. Put it in a bowl and sprinkle with salt and pepper. Taste, then add more seasoning if necessary. (If desired, cook a teaspoon of meat in a pan before tasting.) Handling meat as little as possible to avoid compressing it, shape it lightly into 4 or more burgers.

Step 3

Fire is hot enough when you can barely stand to hold your hand 3 or 4 inches over rack for a few seconds. Grill burgers about 3 minutes a side for very rare, and another minute a side for each increasing stage of doneness, but no more than 10 minutes total unless you like hockey pucks. (Timing on stove top is the same.)

Step 4

Serve on buns, toast or hard rolls, garnished as you like.

04 Author