Homemade Burger Patties

I really hate frozen burger patties and I hate ordering from fast-food joints. They are tasteless, too much mayonnaise inside and you do not know what kind of meat inside or what they put inside!

I love creating burgers and sandwiches. You can put anything inside and it is really fun!

You can make thick burger patties or thin once. You can even make a nice shape out of it by getting a mould.

Ingredient:

• Pork Meat 500g (good to make 3 thick patties) - you can use beef or chicken meat
• Brown Onion - 1 cut in small cubes
• Garlic - minced
• Garlic Powder
• Black pepper
• Worcester Sauce
• Light Soya Sauce - 1 tablespoon
• Butter

Butter in pan and stir-fry onion till soft and add garlic. Remove from pan once you smell the garlic fragrance and set aside until cool down.

Pork meat mixed with Garlic powder, light soya sauce, black pepper, Worcester sauce and lastly add the cooked onion and garlic. Mixed well and leave it overnight in fridge.

Next day, add 1 egg york the k and panko breadcrumbs into the meat. Mixed it well and divide mixture into three or four patties. Form into a ball (picture below). Size will depend on how big and thick you want the meat to be.

You can use a non-stick pan or a stainless steel pan to pan sear the meat. Use high fire to pan sear the meat just to get some browning on the meat. This way, you will seal the meet from being dry. The meat will be juicy after oven finished baking it.

If you are using a non-stick skillet, you do not need to worry about meat sticking to the skillet and make a messed just to get the patties out.

For Stainless skillet, make sure you have enough oil on the skillet and make sure the skillet are hot enough. Sprinkle a very small amount of salt on the skillet. Put the meat on the skillet and use a spatula and push the meat to flatten it (picture below).

Wait for 3-5 seconds and turn the meat. Make sure the meat a nicely brown with char marks.

Use a glass baking tray, line the fresh thymes and rosemary on the baking tray. Put the meat on the tray and put the fresh herbs on top of the meat. When you bake the meat with the herbs, the herbs will infused additional flavour into the meat. These 2 herbs are just great for Pork.

Send into oven baking for 25-30 minutes for 170C.

To check whether the meat are nicely done, just use a knife or fork and stick into the meat. If it is cooked, clear water will run out.

Look at the lovely and juicy patties! (picture below). 

Once you take it out from the oven, cover the glass tray tightly with a piece of aluminium foil for about 20-25 minutes. By doing this way, the juices will return to the meat patties and it will be very juicy.

You can add these lovely and juicy patties into 2 piece of bread and add tomato slices, lettuces, mayonnaise or cheese. Do it the way you want it to be.

Just be creative!