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| The Best Ever Burgers
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Ingredients:
- 1 1/2 lbs. extra lean ground beef
- 1/2 lbs. ground pork
- 1/2 cup fine bread crumbs
- 1 egg
- BBQ sauce (see recipe below)
- 1 Tbsp. cajun spice
Method:
- Combine ground beef, ground pork, bread crumbs, egg, cajun spice and 1/8 cup BBQ sauce. Mix until combined, but don't overmix.
- Shape into burgers. Make the burgers whatever size suits you, but flatten them out so that they're an even thickness and can cook through evenly.
- Lightly oil grill.
- BBQ burgers over medium heat until cooked through. Brush with BBQ sauce once during cooking and once again just before burgers are removed from the grill.
- Serve with all the fixin's and more BBQ sauce (see below)
BBQ Sauce (combine all ingredients):
- 1 1/2 cups ketchup
- 1/4 brown sugar
- 1 Tbsp cajun spice
- 1/4 cup minced onion, lightly sauteed
- 6 - 8 cloves minced garlic, lightly sauteed with the onion
- 2 Tbsp worchertershire sauce
- 2 Tbsp minced parsley
The fixin's:
- Big, fresh buns. Serve some white and some brown buns.
- Whipped butter.
- Mustards including standard mustard and some other varieties like german mustard, hot mustard or honey mustard.
- Ketchup and hot ketchup (prepared or combine some ketchup with a little tabasco sauce)
- Relishes, red and green
- Sliced tomato, onion, green pepper, mushrooms, cucmber
- Shredded lettuce
- Sliced cheese - not the processed stuff, but real cheese. Serve a few different types.
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