Top 10 burger recipes
It's time to fire up the barbie and grill some of these delicious homemade patties for a real feast.
Indian chicken burger
Chef Anjum Anand is a whizz with her spices. Here she presents an Indian chicken burger, flavoured with ginger, garlic, fresh coriander, garam masala, cumin powder, lemon and green chillies. Serve with onion rings, mayo, some more fresh coriander and perhaps a fresh mint salad.
African volcano burger
Chef Grant Hawthorne shows us how to make juicy beef burgers, and an accompanying fiery hot sauce. You’ll need beef mince, ketchup and a little soy sauce for the burgers; the marinade requires a far whack of ingredients, most of which you’ll probably have in your cupboards anyway.
Bloody Mary burger
If you're a fan of the Bloody Mary cocktail, you'll love this burger. Handmake your burger with a kick of horseradish and Worcestershire sauce – add a little Tabasco if you want. Comes with a spicy Tabasco-cumin ketchup and a garnish of celeriac waldorf salad. Serve with chips, and ideally a bloody Mary.
Harissa-spiced lamb burgers
A nice, simple lamb burger recipe requiring few ingredients and little effort. It’s just lamb mince, onion, a little harissa and lamb mince for the patties, and a nice cooling raita to accompany it. To make raita, you’ll need half a cucumber, Greek yoghurt, a pinch each of sugar and cumin, and some fresh mint.
Heston’s ultimate cheeseburgers
You know these cheeseburgers will be good if Heston Blumenthal is behind them. They’re tender beef burgers with homemade (yes, homemade) cheese slices and charred gherkins. On top of all that, Heston serves his burgers with a zingy sauce made from ketchup, mayo and yellow mustard.
Smoky avocado beef burger
Also from Heston, these smoky avocado beef burgers
are topped with alder wood smoked bacon, pickled gherkins and a mashed avocado sauce with a smoky touch of paprika, mixed with mayonnaise and diced shallots with jalapeño peppers. Add a more powerful smoky flavour by barbecuing your burgers with moist woodchips on your coals.
Salmon burgers
Signe Johansen recommends barbecuing her made-from-scratch salmon burgers. “It’s a great way to BBQ salmon without it falling apart over the flames,” says Signe. She flavours her fish burgers with mustard, horseradish, anchovies, lemon, spring onion, capers, chilli, dill and mint. Serve with pitta pockets.
Mile-high chickpea burgers
You can enjoy burgers if you’re a veggie! Anjum Anand’s mile-high chickpea burgers really are that, towering above most other burgers. The patties are made chunky with chickpeas and spicy with cumin, garam masala, chilli powder and fresh ginger. Serve with a vibrant homemade purple coleslaw.
Southwest red bean burger
Here's another vegetarian option: a nutritious patty made with diced mushrooms, red kidney beans and an assortment of spices.
Top with a dollop of green chilli mayo tempered with coriander, and a three-onion 'ceviche' for crunch.
Veggie burgers with melting cheese
It’s best to use ready-sliced Gruyère or Emmental cheese for this dish – the slices will melt perfectly to a lovely gooey finish and add a sweet, nutty tang. The only thing not vegetarian about this veggie burger recipe is the inclusion of Worcestershire sauce (it contains anchovies), so maybe take that out.
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