Breakfast Burger Recipe
Jul 6, 2011 8:31 am
A pork-based burger you can eat for breakfast
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In the tradition of the British breakfast this burger uses pork sausage meat rather than minced beef, which is arguably a little heavy for the first meal of the day (indeed, some might argue that the entire concept of a burger is too heavy, though I heartily disagree). The consistency of sausage meat makes it ideal for shaping into burgers, and you don’t need to add any butter or oil to cook them — there’s plenty of fat in the meat. I ask my butcher for sausage meat from outdoor-bred pigs, which I prefer to meat from pigs that have never seen sunlight. I’ve allowed two smallish burgers per person, squeezed into lightly toasted English muffins. You may want to add a fried egg to each muffin or, for the true carnivore, a piece of grilled bacon.
Recipe from The Hungover Cookbook by Milton Crawford.
Servings: 4 burgers
Ingredients
1 onion, roughly chopped
1 tablesppoon ketchup
2 teaspoons worcestershire sauce
1/2 teaspoon sweet paprika
3/4 lb free-range seasoned sausage meat
1 egg yolk
2 teaspoons dried sage
handful of finely chopped chives
freshly ground black pepper
4 English muffins, cut in half
Directions:
- Blend together the onion, ketchup, Worcestershire sauce and paprika in a food processor. In a large bowl combine the onion mixture with the sausage meat, egg yolk, sage, chives and black pepper. Use some muscle to mix all the ingredients thoroughly with a wooden spoon. With wet hands, make four even-sized balls out of the mixture and then flatten each one to form a patty shape. Put on a covered plate in the fridge for 45 minutes.
- Heat a non-stick frying pan over medium high heat and put the burgers into it without any additional fat. Cook them for about five minutes on one side, then reduce the heat a little, flip the burgers over and cook for five minutes on the other side. Flip them over again and cook for another three minutes per side on a low to medium heat, until cooked through.
- While the burgers are cooking, lightly toast the muffins under the broiler. Serve each burger in a toasted muffin with condiments of your choice, mustard and ketchup being the obvious ones.
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Level of Difficulty:
Easy
Prep Time:
20 minutes plus 45 minutes in the refrigerator
Cooking Time:
15 minutse
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