Our Best-Ever Grilled Burgers

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These ground beef and pork burgers are flavored with Parmesan cheese, fresh basil and other seasonings. Grill them up and serve on onion buns along with our homemade mustard sauce.

Our Best-Ever Grilled Burgers
Prep Time:
30 mins
Grill Time:
14 mins
Total Time:
44 mins
Servings:
8

Ingredients

  • 1 egg

  • ½ cup water

  • 1 ½ teaspoons instant beef bouillon granules

  • ¼ cup finely chopped onion, leek, shallot or green onion

  • ¼ cup grated Parmesan, Romano or Asiago cheese

  • 2 tablespoons snipped fresh basil or parsley or 1 teaspoon dried basil or parsley, crushed

  • 2 tablespoons Worcestershire sauce or steak sauce

  • 1 teaspoon garlic powder

  • ½ teaspoon freshly ground black pepper

  • 1 pound 85% lean ground beef

  • 1 pound ground pork

  • 8 onion buns, hamburger buns or kaiser rolls, split and toasted

  • Mustard Sauce (recipe follows)

  • Lettuce leaves (optional)

  • Thin tomato slices (optional)

  • Thin red onion slices (optional)

  • Dill pickle spears (optional)

Mustard Sauce

  • cup stone-ground mustard

  • 2 tablespoons beer or apple juice

  • 1 tablespoon honey

  • ½ teaspoon Worcestershire or steak sauce

Directions

  1. In a large bowl, thoroughly combine egg, water and bouillon granules. Stir in onion, cheese, basil, Worcestershire sauce, garlic powder and black pepper. Add ground beef and pork. Using clean hands, gently combine the egg mixture and ground meats. (Ingredients need to be evenly distributed and your hands are the best "tool" to do this, but is important to handle ground meat mixture as little as possible for a more tender, moist burger.)

  2. Shape meat mixture into eight 3/4-inch-thick patties, about 4 inches wide.

  3. For a charcoal grill, grill patties on the greased rack of an uncovered grill directly over medium coals for 14 to 18 minutes or until meat is done (an instant-read thermometer inserted into burgers should register 160 degree F), turning once halfway through grilling. (For a gas grill, lightly grease the grill rack; preheat grill. Reduce heat to medium. Place patties on grill rack over heat. Cover and grill as above.)

  4. Remove burgers from grill. Serve burgers on buns with Mustard Sauce. If you like, top burgers with lettuce, tomato and onion and serve with pickle spears. Makes 8 servings.

Mustard Sauce

  1. In a small bowl combine mustard, beer or apple juice, honey, and Worcestershire sauce or steak sauce. Makes about 1/2 cup.

Nutrition Facts (per serving)

343 Calories
15g Fat
26g Carbs
24g Protein
Nutrition Facts
Servings Per Recipe 8
Calories 343
% Daily Value *
Total Fat 15g 19%
Saturated Fat 6g 30%
Cholesterol 91mg 30%
Sodium 661mg 29%
Total Carbohydrate 26g 9%
Total Sugars 6g
Protein 24g
Vitamin C 1mg 3%
Calcium 111mg 9%
Iron 4mg 20%
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