Sunday 16 December 2012

Homemade Quorn Burgers

Vege burgers are always so expensive, and I'd gotten tired of doing the same things with Quorn mince, so I figured if I can make decent meat burgers from scratch, it couldn't be too different with Quorn mince. For non-veges, these burgers are also great when made with lamb mince, although a little more should be used as the meat shrinks more when cooked.



Recipe (makes 2 or 3 burgers)
100g defrosted Quorn mince
1/2 medium white onion
1 crushed garlic clove
2 large closed cup mushrooms
white breadcrumbs from one slice of bread
a handful of finely grated cheese
1 medium egg
1 tspn thyme
1 tspn black pepper
pinch of salt
plain flour
chips to serve
burger buns


Method (takes around 40 mins)
1. Finely chop the onion and fry over a low heat until soft. Add the mushrooms (very finely chopped) and garlic and continue to fry until cooked. Leave to cool.
2. At this point we put our chips on, with a little oil, basil and cumin, for 25 minutes.
3. While the chips are cooking, combine the mince with the breadcrumbs, thyme, egg, cheese, onion, mushroom and garlic, then add the salt and pepper. If the mixture does not fully combine, or is a little watery, add either a little flour, or some extra breadcrumbs. 
4. Heavily flour your hands for this part, I didn't, and ended up covered in burger mix. Squash together a handful of the mix as much as possible, and place in a very hot pan to ensure the burger doesn't split. Do this two or three times, depending on how big you'd like your burgers. (Make sure you do this about 10 minutes before you chips are going to be finished)
5. Seal each burger for around a minute on one side (sprinkling a little flour on each side of the burgers helps here), and then turn regularly for around 7 minutes to cook the burgers. They should be brown all over, and piping hot through the middle.

6. We didn't have burger buns, and I couldn't afford to buy some just for a one off, so we just cut brown bread into squares and used that instead. We also recently bought some black pepper and garlic mayonnaise from Lidl, which was amazing on these burgers with a little extra cheese on top, although Daz said that his mayo and english mustard combination was also lovely on his burgers.

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