Hamburgers - multi-story sandwiches from the assortment of foreign fast food.
They are prepared according to many recipes, the main thing that unites them is a cutlet, most often from meat, less often from fish and a large number of fresh vegetables.
Such sandwiches turn out to be somewhat more nutritious and more useful than the usual ones, although they make you tinker with cooking.
If you are unsure of your abilities, start with a classic hamburger at home: the recipe is extremely simple and does not contain expensive products.
Hamburger at home - the basic principles of cooking
• To make a hamburger, you need round buns sprinkled with sesame seeds on top.
• Such buns are sold in supermarkets, but still, for a homemade hamburger, it is better to bake them yourself.
• Knead the dough in water or milk with the addition of butter. Hamburger buns baked at home, on a dough mixed with milk and butter, are more rich.
• Buns are cut lengthwise into two parts and fried in a dry frying pan, on an electric grill or in an oven on a wire rack, laying with the cut surface down.
• As a filling of a homemade hamburger, foods that are eaten almost daily are suitable: sausage, ham, cheese, and also specially fry cutlets from fish, meat or chicken minced meat.
• You do not need to add bread to the minced meat for such cutlets, and it is best not to twist the meat, but chop it finely with a knife.
• Vegetarian version of hamburgers at home: the recipe does not contain meat, it is replaced with fried fresh mushrooms.
• In addition to meat components, fresh vegetables, greens, and necessarily salad leaves are added to hamburgers at home. Cucumbers can be taken both fresh, and pickled or salted.
• Also, a salad is prepared from vegetables with the addition of boiled eggs, which are then put on a meat patty.
• When forming hamburgers, buns must be coated with specially prepared sauce, which can be replaced with a mixture of mayonnaise and ketchup.
• After that lay out the prepared filling in layers and cover with the second half, also well-oiled with the sauce.
• You can not only coat the workpieces with the sauce, but also pour it on the filling, mainly on the cutlet. It is also served separately.
Hamburger at home: a recipe for making buns on the water
Ingredients:
• two eggs;
• a pound of white wheat flour;
• two tables. tablespoons of refined oil;
• incomplete table. a spoonful of sugar refined;
• table. a spoonful of salt;
• 2 tsp dry yeast.
Cooking method:
1. In an incomplete glass of heated water, dissolve the yeast powder, add granulated sugar and mix well, set aside, close to the included stove, or other warm place so that the yeast comes up.
2. Sprinkle the sifted wheat flour with a small mound and make a recess in the middle into which break the eggs. Add salt, refined sunflower oil and yeast dissolved in water. Knead a not very dense elastic dough and let it “rest” for half an hour.
3. Then, the dough has increased almost two and a half times, gently knead with your hands, divide into pieces, form a round billet from each and place on a baking sheet, lining it with thin parchment paper.
4. Smear the surface of the buns with an egg, garnish with a sprinkle of sesame seeds.
5. Bake for half an hour at 200 degrees.
Hamburger at home: a recipe for great milk buns with added butter
Ingredients:
• 3.3 cups of wheat white flour;
• one glass of pasteurized 3.2% milk;
• 80 gr. sweet cream butter;
• one egg;
• 2.5 tsp dry baker's yeast;
• 50 grams of sugar;
• 15 grams of salt;
• sesame seeds.
Cooking method:
1. Prepare the dough. Dissolve the yeast in a glass of warmed milk, add two tablespoons of flour, all the sugar and, having mixed until the sugar has completely dissolved, leave this mixture in a warm place for half an hour. During this time, the yeast activates, and the mass grows noticeably in volume.
2. Then add one protein, butter and salt melted on a plate, into the dough.
3. Constantly stirring, gradually introduce 2.5 cups of flour, and knead the dough that is not sticky and not sticky to the hands. Less flour may be needed, it all depends on its quality and the amount of gluten contained.
4. Tightly tighten the bowl of dough into the cling film to prevent it from blowing and leave it to warm for about two hours.
5. Wash the well-spaced, loose, fluffy dough once with your hands and divide it into eight pieces of the same size, from each such part form high balls and transfer them to a baking sheet.
6. Cover the pan with a towel and leave for half an hour. You can leave the baking sheet on the table, or you can turn on the oven for heating, put it on top of the stove.
7. While the buns are suitable, mix one egg yolk with a large spoonful of milk. Then, very carefully, with a culinary brush, without pressing strongly, grease the approached dough with this mixture and sprinkle with sesame seed.
8. Bake at 200 degrees twenty minutes, until browned.
Homemade Hamburger Cooking: Classic Recipe
Ingredients:
• five rolls;
• 600 grams of beef, pulp;
• plates of Dutch cheese toaster;
• large ripe tomato;
• two pickled cucumbers;
• lettuce leaves;
• sweet onion head;
• apple cider vinegar 5%;
• ketchup - “tomato”, or “tender”;
• spicy ready mustard;
• mayonnaise 67%;
• 25 grams of sugar, without a slide.
Cooking method:
1. Add the granulated sugar to the vinegar diluted in half with water and mix well. Put in the marinade half rings of onions, and leave to marinate for fifteen minutes.
2. Cut or buy hamburger buns, bought or baked at home, cut lengthwise and fry the halves with the inside on a dry frying pan until tender golden color. Please note that the buns themselves must remain soft.
3. Prepared the buns, set the onions to marinate, now proceed to frying the cutlets. Twist the beef with a meat grinder, salt, lightly pepper and mix thoroughly with a spoon. Form flat cutlets from minced meat, the diameter of the prepared cutlets should be slightly larger than the diameter of the bread blanks, since during the frying process, they decrease. Hamburger cutlets should be fried at maximum heat, so that they instantly become covered with a fried crust. Two minutes on the one, and about one and a half, on the other.
4. While the patties are still hot, quickly pick up the hamburgers. Lay out the hot cutlets on the lower part, on them a plate of cheese, then a thin circle of ripe tomato.
5. Remove the marinated onion from the marinade and place a few half rings on the tomato, then the cucumbers cut into slices.
6. Finally, put the lettuce on the onion, cover with the top and put the sandwich on the plate.
7. You can pour mustard, mayonnaise and ketchup immediately, but it is better to submit all these sauces separately so that everyone can put to their taste.
Hamburger at home: recipe with chicken cutlet
Ingredients:
• three buns for a hamburger with sesame seeds;
• 400 grams of minced chicken;
• head of bitter onion;
• 100 grams of champignons;
• a teaspoon of cumin;
• 1.5 tsp sweet ground paprika;
• two large tomatoes;
• three pickles;
• a small bunch of lettuce leaves;
• three heads of red sweet onions;
• packaging of toast cheese "Maazdam";
• mayonnaise;
• garlic ketchup.
Cooking method:
1. In freshly prepared or thawed minced chicken, add chopped onions, cumin, table salt. Minced chicken cutlets will be much juicier if you grind the onions together with the minced meat in a meat grinder.
2. Cut the champignons into small sticks, a little thicker than the “straws” and, frying until ready in melted butter, transfer to chicken mincemeat.
3. From the minced meat thoroughly mixed with mushrooms, form cutlets and fry them on both sides on medium heat, for three minutes. Do not dry, it is best to fry the grill in a pan.
4. Cut the buns and fry in a pan without fat and oil, putting a slice on its bottom.
5. Prepare the sauce by mixing in equal parts mayonnaise and garlic ketchup, a little mustard.
6. Well dress the sauce with both halves of the buns and form a hamburger, laying on the bottom of the lettuce, sliced tomatoes, thin rings of sweet red onion in rings. Then put the chicken cutlet, on it cheese, cut into thin rings of cucumber, and close the "cap".
Hamburger at home: salmon recipe
Ingredients:
• two buns for hamburgers with sesame seeds;
• 300 grams of fresh fish, salmon fillet;
• sweet onion head;
• fresh dill;
• a small bunch of parsley;
• two cloves of garlic;
• three table. spoons of breadcrumbs;
• one pickled cucumber;
• cheddar cheese plates;
• two fresh tomatoes;
• lettuce.
For the sauce:
• 100 grams of fresh mushrooms (young champignons);
• 200 ml of medium fat cream;
• 1 tbsp. l sweet cream butter;
• 50 gr. cream cheese.
Cooking method:
1. In a saucepan with a thick bottom, put fresh champignons, sliced as thin as possible, add oil and fry until tender until browned.
2. Pour in the cream, salt and put on medium heat. When it begins to boil, remove from the stove and, having cooled slightly, add cream cheese and finely chopped dill and leave to cool.
3. The sauce is very viscous and resembles mayonnaise.
4. At the fish washed under the tap and dried with a napkin, separate the fillet, select the bones. Use a heavy knife to chop the meat into minced meat.
5. Add finely chopped dill and parsley, finely chopped garlic, white bread crumbs. For juiciness, you can pour a loose egg or a few tablespoons of milk.
6. Thoroughly mix everything and lightly beat it on a cutting board.
7. Divide the minced meat into pieces and form two cutlets, wetting your hands in water. Fry them in a pan with oil until tender golden crust.
8. In buns cut in half, fry the slices, put a circle of tomato, thin rings of cucumber and onion on one half.
9. On top of the onion, pour a tablespoon of the cooked sauce, put a piece of salad, a fish patty and cover with the top of the bun.
Mushroom hamburger at home: a recipe for vegetarians
Ingredients:
• 250 grams of fresh or frozen champignons;
• six small cucumbers, fresh;
• five sesame buns;
• six tablespoons of flour;
• one tsp mustard powder;
• half a large lemon;
• 100 ml of purified vegetable oil.
Cooking method:
1. Use a thin, thin knife to cut the mushrooms into thin plates and fry until tender in oil.
2. Pour 300 ml of filtered water into a small thin-walled saucepan.
3. Dilute the flour to homogeneity in water and put on moderate heat, not forgetting to constantly stir.
4. When the flour mass thickens, remove from heat and refrigerate. Add dry mustard, sour cream, two tables. tablespoons of lemon juice, pepper, salt and beat well with a blender for five minutes.
5. Then, while continuing to whisk, add oil and whisk for another three minutes.
6. With the sauce prepared, grease the sesame bun halves slightly grilled, lay the fried mushrooms, thin cucumber slices, dill sprigs on top and cover with the top.
"American" fish hamburger at home: a recipe with tuna and salad
Ingredients for four servings:
• 600 grams of canned tuna;
• four chicken eggs;
• two fresh medium cucumbers;
• one apple, sour;
• 67% mayonnaise;
• fresh herbs.
Cooking method:
1. Drain the liquid from a can of tinned tuna, and transfer the fish to a plate, gently mash with a fork, removing the bones.
2. Grate hard-boiled chicken eggs or chop into small pieces.
3. In small thin slices, cut the peeled apple, cucumbers and mix with chopped eggs and chopped herbs.
4. Season the prepared salad with plenty of mayonnaise.
5. On the lower half of the bun, put a thick layer of fish on top of the cooked salad and "close" the top of the bun.
6. That the hamburger thus prepared does not “fall apart”, fasten it with a wooden toothpick.
Hamburger at home - tricks and tips
• Hamburger buns, you can prepare several times at once, because they are well stored. To do this, chilled rolls are cut in half and put into paper bags.
• If you place such blanks in plastic bags and keep them in the refrigerator, the shelf life will increase and “bring to life” is easy, heat them directly in the bags in the microwave.
• It is best to form minced meat patties with your hands moistened with water, then the minced meat will not stick to your hands.
• There is another way of cutting meat or fish mince into cutlets. Spread the stuffing on a sheet of cling film lined on the surface of the working table, cover it with cling film and flatten with a rolling pin. Then remove the top film and, using a special shape of the appropriate diameter, cut the required number of cutlets. The cutlets thus prepared are carefully transferred to the pan for frying with a special spatula.
• "American" hamburger at home: the recipe implies the use of canned tuna, other types of canned fish, if you still have to resort to them it is best to choose from large breeds of fish. Use canned food with added oil; blanched ones will not work.
• The optimal thickness of the hamburger cutlets from one and a half to two centimeters.
• A special piquant taste can be given to a hamburger if, before frying, meat patties made from chopped pieces are marinated for fifteen minutes in dry wine. With chopped meatballs such a "trick" does not work, they are diversified by adding seasonings and spices to the minced meat. You can put a little squeezed, chopped pulp of citrus fruits, fresh, not sour cherries under the finished cutlet, children really like apple "gravy."
