Burgers in the oven or on the barbeque

Burgers in the oven or on the barbeque

Ingredients

1 k. ground beef or 700 g. ground beef and 300 g. ground pork

3 large dried onions

4 cloves garlic

Salt, pepper, oregano, very little ground cumin

50 g. breadcrumbs

90 g. olive oil + 3 TB

1 medium potato

1 medium ripe tomato

Instructions  

Peel the onions and garlic.

Put them in the blender and chop.

Put some salt in the minced meat and knead well.

Put the chopped garlic and onions in the minced meat.

Knead the minced meat to mix it well with the onions.

Add the oil into the minced meat and knead again.

Add the ground pepper, oregano, and very little cumin into the meat and knead.

Peel the potato and pulp it in the blender.

Add it to the previous meat mixture and knead again.

Mash the tomatoes, add them in the meat mixture and knead again.

Add breadcrumbs in the meat mixture and knead all the ingredients together well.

Put the burgers in the fridge for at least two hours, so the flavors will mingle.

If you make the burgers the previous night, their taste improves.

Burgers in the oven

Put 3 TB Olive oil in a dish and dip your hands into it.

Get a piece of ground beef in the size of a tangerine from the above mixture.

Place it on your left palm and turn it until it takes the shape of a small ball.

Pres with your right palm the meat ball to take the shape of a burger.

Continue this way until you make all the burgers possible from the ground beef.

Smear every burger around with olive oil.

Slightly grease a baking tray and put the burgers on it side by side.

Bake in the second top rack of the oven at 180 C degrees for 25 minutes.

Remove the pan from the oven. Turn the burgers upside down to cooke their other side.

Put the pan back into the oven and bake 10 more minutes..

When the burgers are cooked, their color gets darker.

As soon as they get ready remove them from the oven.

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Barbeque

Use a grill that folds and has a handle.

Smear the grill with oil with a brush.

Arrange the burgers in the grill and close it.

Place the grill with burgers over hot coals.

The fire should not be too strong, because the patties burn outside but remain uncooked in the inside. 

When the burgers are cooked from one side, turn them to the other side.

Turn them often to avoid burning them.

When you have invited a lot of people you need many burgers very fast.

It is impossible to cook many burgers at once.

In this case it is better to half cook the burgers in the oven in advance.

So when the people arrive, the burgers need only two minutes on the barbeque to get ready.

Shortly before serving put them on the grill and place it on the barbeque.

This way you prepare many burgers quickly.