I have been craving for burgers (mouthwatering burgers which often pop up on my social media feed) for a long time since the pandemic. But due to strict border protocols, we cannot even go to the neighboring city of Ormoc where there are a variety of food places serving burgers to choose from. Since it’s hard to get a hold of decent gourmet burgers here in Baybay City, Leyte where I live, I decided to make one from scratch. Sourcing the right ingredients here in my place is not a challenge anymore because there is a hypermarket (Metro Store Baybay) that sells these ingredients. So, all of my ingredients were readily available at Metro. All you need is your imagination and a little help from YouTube cooking videos. Plus, I am an avid cook myself so it was fun preparing the burger, assembling it, and of course getting nice mouth-watering photos of it.
Anyways, here it goes!
Ingredients:
1/4 kilo ground beef (lean part)
1/4 kilo ground pork (fatty part)
1 white onion (sliced and caramelized)
1 big red tomato (sliced)
Cucumber (sliced thinly)
Ready to cook frozen fries (deep fried and added with little salt)
Romaine lettuce
Danes Sliced Cheese
Cheese Whiz
Mayonnaise
Hot Sauce
Panny’s Buns (I sliced into two, added sesame seeds, applied egg wash on top and put in the oven toaster)
Herbs and spices for the burger patty (pepper, oregano, basil, paprika, and salt to taste)
Steps:
- Combine the meats then add little amounts of the spices and salt
- Caramelize the onions in little sugar and balsamic vinegar (set aside)
- Slice tomato, cucumber, Romaine lettuce
- Apply egg wash and toast the buns, add sesame seeds
- Deep fry the potatoes
- Pan fry the patty
- Assemble the burger
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