Classic Beef Burgers with Smashing Sauce
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Inspired by Michael Smith's "Smash Burger" recipe, these burgers absolutely sing with the addition of a spectacular special sauce.
Author: Finn
Recipe type: Burgers
Serves: 4
Ingredients
- Burger patties:
- 1 lb. ground beef
- 1 tsp Montreal Steak Spice
- 1 tsp Worcestershire sauce
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- Smashing Sauce:
- 1 Tbsp your favourite mustard
- 1 Tbsp horseradish
- 1 Tbsp bread and butter pickles, finely chopped
- 1 tsp your favourite hot sauce
- ⅓ cup mayonnaise
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- 4 buns
- Lettuce
- Raw and/or caramelized onions*
- Dill pickles, sliced**
- Ketchup (optional)***
- 4 sliced of your favourite cheese (optional)
Instructions
- Mix all patty ingredients together and form into 4 burgers of roughly uniform size.
- In a small bowl, mix all smashing sauce ingredients together and set aside.
- Heat a griddle pan or barbecue and start to cook the patties. Try to resist pressing down too hard on the patties as they are cooking as this will cause all those delicious juices to flow out and dry out your burger. After you have flipped your patties once, top with cheese, if using.
- Lightly toast your hamburger buns and spread a thick layer of smashing sauce on each side. Top with your fully cooked patty, lettuce, onion and pickles and enjoy!
Notes
* I like to use both, they bring such different things to the table I consider them different ingredients
** Yep, that's right. I use two different type of pickles in this recipe. Bread and butter pickes are so sweet they work perfectly in the smashing sauce but I find them a little too much to top a burger with. As a topping I prefer a crisp dill pickle- better crunch and more tang to cut the richness of the beef.
*** Whaaaa- a classic burger without ketchup?! How dare you! Sometimes I do put ketchup on these but more often than not I find they don't need them (and I am a ketchup fiend when it comes to fries)- the smashing sauce provides all the condiment flavour needed.
** Yep, that's right. I use two different type of pickles in this recipe. Bread and butter pickes are so sweet they work perfectly in the smashing sauce but I find them a little too much to top a burger with. As a topping I prefer a crisp dill pickle- better crunch and more tang to cut the richness of the beef.
*** Whaaaa- a classic burger without ketchup?! How dare you! Sometimes I do put ketchup on these but more often than not I find they don't need them (and I am a ketchup fiend when it comes to fries)- the smashing sauce provides all the condiment flavour needed.
Recipe by Port and Fin at https://portandfin.com/classic-beef-burgers-with-smashing-sauce/