Ultimate Burger

There are a few key steps to making an excellent burger. Below I have outlined these steps so you can make some amazing burgers at home.

Step 1: Get good ingredients.

-If you are cooking with things that taste good on their own your end product will taste that much better

Buy or Make a good whole grain bun

• Be sure it is fresh but sturdy -not too soft, easily compressed, chewy, dry or subject to breakage
• Buy a nice white bread rather than a poor whole grain

For the Burger:

• Make or buy your favorite veggies burger

or

• Choose lean or even extra lean ground beef
• shop around for a nice flavored meat
• sometimes at your smaller meat shops rather than at the supermarket

Have on hand:

• fresh garlic,
• a nice flavored onion (not necessicarily sweet),
• a large meaty tomatoe,
• tender large basil leaves,
• homemade zuchini pepper relish,
• Mircle Whip (or for the adventurist -Ranch),
• smokey barbeque sauce and brush,
• Opitional: mushrooms & cheese

Step 2: Cook it wright.

1. Cook meat on a hot skillet or grill -searing well
2. Turn once (and don't squish out juices as cooking)
3. spread seared side with about a tsp of sauce
4. when burger is cooked through (use thermometer-if unsure)
5. turn burger again and briefly cook sauce on
6. move to bun or turn back over when ready

Step 3: Build your burger correctly! The order in which you put together your burger can make a big difference to how all the flavors go together. Here is a good basic order:

Top Bun

"mayo"

basil leaves (baby lettuces are nice too)

tomato

Bottom Bun

Relish ( being careful not to get too much liquid ....)

onion sliced very thinly (or fires if you like)

mushrooms

Now put on the burger, eat and enjoy!