Recipe for flat beef burger cutlets 🍔

Kitchen appliances and utensils: a frying pan, kitchen scales and other measuring accessories, a rubber mat, a silicone spatula, several deep bowls of various diameters, a cutting board, a sharp knife.

Ingredients

Step cooking

Cook the minced meat

• I thoroughly wash beef weighing about 400 g, and then wipe it with paper towels. When determining the amount of meat, proceed from the calculation of 100 g per bun.
• We clean meat from excess fat, veins and other unnecessary parts.
• Cut the beef into small pieces, and then pass them through a meat grinder.
• Grind ground beef with salt and pepper to taste.
• Separately, clean the middle head of the onion, and then finely chop it.
• Mix the chopped onion and ground beef, and then put in the refrigerator for about half an hour. During this time, the forcemeat is well infused, then the cutlets will turn out juicy and tender.
  

Make the sauce

1. We cut a quarter of Yalta sweet onion into very small cubes. Similarly, chop one small pickled cucumber. Separately, mix 20 g of American mustard, 20 g of tomato paste and 40 g of mayonnaise. Thanks to the use of tomato paste instead of the usual ketchup, the cooked sauce will not leak from the bun during its absorption.
   
2. In the resulting mixture add chopped onions and cucumber.
   
3. Stir the ingredients well, then set the sauce aside to pickle. Roughly, the sauce should be marinated for at least 20 minutes.
   

Cook the cutlet

1. The rubber mat and hands are slightly moistened with cold water. We spread the forcemeat on the working surface and divide it into four equal portions. From each portion we make a ball, after which we beat it well approximately 20-30 times.
   
2. We put the broken ball on the working surface and form a neat cake from it. The thickness of the cutlet depends on your desire. The main thing is that the diameter of the cutlet should be slightly larger than the size of the bun, since the meat product will be slightly fried during the frying process.
   
3. To cutlets evenly fried, we use a little trick - cut out a circle from baking paper, the diameter of which will correspond to the size of the pan. We put the pan on medium heat and add literally a few drops of vegetable oil to it.
   
4. Spread the oil evenly over the surface of the pan with a spatula. We spread the formed patties on a hot pan, and then cover them with cut out parchment. We put a large pan on top of the paper, which will act as a press, which will allow us to evenly fry each cutlet. Fry cutlets on both sides to the desired degree of frying. On average, it will take from 2 to 3 minutes on each side.
   

Putting a burger

1. We cut four rolls along, after which lightly fry the cut part in a dry hot pan.
   
2. Lightly grease the bottom of the roll with sauce, and then put about half the salad leaf. Put the desired amount of sauce on top of the lettuce and put a hot patty on top.
   
3. Next, spread the cheese, then a slice of tomato and the rest of the sauce.
   
4. We cover the formed burger with a “lid” from the second half of the bun, and then pierce the product with a wooden skewer so that the burger does not break up.
   

Video recipe

The video below will show you the step-by-step process for making flat beef cutlets that are ideal for making burgers.