
Insanity Burger
A delicious international dish. Gluten-free friendly.
Total Time
74 min
Serves
2
Rating
0.0 (0)
Ingredients
- 1 3/4 lbs ground chuck steak
- Olive oil
- 1 large red onion
- 1 splash of white wine vinegar
- 2 large gherkins
- 4 sesame-topped brioche burger buns
- 4–8 slices of smoked bacon
- 4 teaspoons yellow mustard
- Tabasco Chipotle sauce
- 4 thin slices of Red Leicester cheese
- 4 teaspoons tomato ketchup
- 1/4 of an iceberg lettuce
- 2 heaping tablespoons mayo
- 1 heaping tablespoon tomato ketchup
- 1 teaspoon Tabasco Chipotle sauce
- 1 teaspoon Worcestershire sauce
- optional: 1 teaspoon brandy or bourbon
Instructions
- 1
For the best burger, go to your butcher and ask them to grind 1 3/4 lbs of chuck steak for you.
- 2
This cut has a really good balance of fat and flavorsome meat.
- 3
Divide it into 4 and, with wet hands, roll each piece into a ball, then press into flat patties roughly 5 inches wide and about 3/4 inch wider than your buns.
- 4
Place on an oiled plate and chill in the fridge.
- 5
Next, finely slice the red onion, then dress in a bowl with the vinegar and a pinch of sea salt.
- 6
Slice the gherkins and halve the buns.
- 7
Finely chop the lettuce and mix with the rest of the burger sauce ingredients in a bowl, then season to taste.
- 8
I like to cook only 2 burgers at a time to achieve perfection, so get two pans on the go—a large non-stick frying pan on a high heat for your burgers and another on a medium heat for the bacon.
- 9
Pat your burgers with oil and season them with salt and pepper.
- 10
Put 2 burgers into the first pan, pressing down on them with a slotted spatula, then put half the bacon into the other pan.
- 11
After 1 minute, flip the burgers and brush each cooked side with a 1/2 teaspoon of mustard and a dash of Tabasco.
- 12
After another minute, flip onto the mustard side and brush again with another 1/2 teaspoon of mustard and a second dash of Tabasco on the other side.
- 13
Cook for 1 more minute, by which point you can place some crispy bacon on top of each burger with a slice of cheese.
- 14
Add a tiny splash of water to the pan and place a heatproof bowl over the burgers to melt the cheese—30 seconds should do it.
- 15
At the same time, toast 2 split buns in the bacon fat in the other pan until lightly golden.