Our new favorite burger or slider is a combination of meat. If you’re not in the mood for a burger, make meatballs. Pork plus burger meat is the basic formula. If you add tamari or soy sauce, and optional other ingredients, you have an unbelievably good burger. I’ll list everything I used, and everything Kathy used, and you customize yours!
Just a note about using mushrooms. The addition of tamari or soy plus mushrooms makes for big meaty flavor. Mushrooms also add moisture to the meat. I used mushroom soy sauce, and because the sausage I used had a lot of fat, I didn’t need any extra moisture.
There’s no picture, because honestly, if you’ve seen one burger, you’ve seen them all.
Better Burgers
Ingredients
- 1 lb ground pork
- 1 lb ground beef
- 1 egg
- 1 1/2 TBSP tamari or soy sauce
- 1 1/2 TBSP steak sauce
- 2 tsp worcestershire sauce
- 1 tsp granulated onion powder
- 1 tsp granulated garlic powder
- Pepper
- 1 TBSP extra virgin olive oil
- 2-4 TBSP crushed potato chips
- 1 lb loose Italian sausage meat
- 1 lb ground deer meat
- 1 TBSP mushroom soy sauce (or tamari or soy sauce plus finely chopped mushrooms)
- Salt and pepper
- Extra virgin olive oil, if the sausage is too lean
Kathy's
Lanie's
Instructions
- Mix all ingredients except oil and potato chips. Add oil, if the meat is lean. Add enough crushed chips to bind everything. Add a little salt, if you think it won't be salty enough with the other ingredients that contain salt.
- Form 5-6 patties. Fry or grill.
- Mix all ingredients.
- Form 5-6 patties. Fry or grill.
Kathy's
Lanie's