Spicy Thai Beef Burgers

This also works really well with pork or chicken mince. Sorry about the lack of photo, if you make it and take a photo please send it in and i’ll put it up on here.

Ingredients

• 500g minced beef.
• 2 cloves of garlic
• 2 red chillis
• Ginger (grated)
• Lemon grass
• Basil
• Corriander
• Chives
• 1 Lemon
• 1 Lime
• 3 Spring onions
• Salt
• Pepper
• Honey
• Chunk of Cucumber

Method

1. Put the garlic, chillis, lemon grass, lemon zest, lime zest, salt, pepper, basil,chives, corriander and ginger in a food processor and blend, then add the 3 or 4 spring onions and blend until finely chopped.
2. Add the minced beef and blend until smooth (blend less if you prefer a rougher texture burger)
3. Take a little bit of the mix out and fry it, taste, and adjust accordingly.
4. then make into burgers shapes, wrap in cling film and place in the fridge for a couple of hours.
5. Then to make the dressing, mix the lime juice, honey, lemon juice and some chopped spring onions and grated cucumber, corriander and taste, you should have a slightly twangy/sweet sauce.
6. Remove from the fridge an hour before cooking.

Now depending on how you want to cook them you can do the following:

1. roll in seasoned breadcrumbs and fry the burgers
2. roll in herbs and spices and fry the burgers
3. BBQ the burgers
4. Griddle them on a really hot cast iron griddle pan (how i did it)

Serve in a toasted bun with a few spoonfuls of the sauce and some salad.