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Best Barbecue Hamburger Recipes
In addition to having all the best barbecue hamburger recipes listed for you I've also got the essential guide to preparing and cooking the best burgers. Making great burgers doesn't happen by accident and I'm going to let you into a couple of secrets.
There are 3 elements to getting the most from your barbecue hamburger recipes:-
How to make a pattie
The impact of the grain of your ground meat
Binding the pattie
Before I start, let me say that you can buy a hamburger press and these little beauties deliver prefectly formed patties really quickly so they are ideal if you are in a hurry.
Making Patties
When making patties, make them as thin as you can because they always thicken up during the cooking process.
Once made, interlayer the patties with cellophane wrap, this helps them keep their structure and makes it easier to lay them on the grill. A sprinkling of oil will stop them from sticking when they first hit the hot grill plate.
The Grain
If you are grinding your own meat, look how it comes out of the nozzle, it's like little cylinders. Layer all the cylinders on top of each other so that they all lie in the same direction and then roll the meat up in stretch wrap to form a nice thick sausage.
Chill the sausage to stiffen the meat and then slice through it to make your pattie. Remove any stretch wrap from the perimeter.
You now have a pattie formed from lots of little cylinders standing on their end. When cooked, take a bite and you'll find that the burger is much less chewy, it just falls apart as you bite.
Binding
Don't be tempted to put a beaten egg in the mix. Some recipes say that this helps bind the burgers but all it serves to do is make the meat more chewy, it adds nothing to the flavor.
There is one exception to this rule though and that's when you are adding loads of other ingredients. Normally meat with a few ingredients will naturally bind but if you are adding a lot of extra ingredients to the mix then an egg may be a necessary evil.
But....
Sometimes the best barbecue hamburger recipes are about keeping it simple – let the
BBQ Sauce
do the work and strip the meat to the bare essentials:-
Ingredients:-
Work on about 150g / 6 oz per burger. Always get the best beef you can and get it freshly ground. For every kg (2.2lb) of meat your going to need:-
1 teaspoon salt
1/4 teaspoon pepper
It’s all a matter of taste and I have to say, I prefer a little more pepper.
OR For added “bite” add a couple of tablespoons of Worcestershire sauce and a few shakes of Tabasco.
OR If you’re a garlic and chili fiend like me, how about crushing a clove (or 2) of garlic into the mix? Or some finely chopped chili?