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Making your own burgers is such a boy’s thing and yet the female guests are especially happy about the finesse.
The popular “fastfood” is not only for the Superbowl announced, the sandwiches warm rolls fit perfectly to the barbecue and when guests come.
You can prepare hamburgers perfectly and put them on the table with meat or without meat.
In this article I’ll tell you a lot about the tasty variations and you can expect exciting burger sauces and lots of collected chef tips.I wish you a lot of fun and a little later – enjoy your meal!
Basically we can ask ourselves why a dish from the American kitchen bears the name of a German city.
The resolution is quite simple. The hamburger, in its original form, was apparently invented by a German immigrant.
Around 1900, Louis Lassen hurriedly prepared minced meat from unsold steaks and served the fried ground meat between two slices of toast.
The restaurant Louis Lunch in New Haven still exists. The original burger was topped with tomatoes, onions and cheese, served without mustard and ketchup.
There is another story, among others Charlie Negrin, known as Hamburger-Charlie (1885), is said to have served similar burgers in Seymour, Wisconsin.
As a German cook, I will assign the HBurger to German cuisine in the future 🙂 But now enough of the story, let’s go one step further…
Our supermarkets already offer “pressed” patties. These are surely practical if it should go fast times. Homemade patties are of course tastier!
Patties are the fried grilled meat slices that come between our warm rolls. Bun, that’s the name of the roll. The term comes from English “bun” for “small bread” or “round roll”.
With the homemade burger sauce you can really inspire your guests. I usually make two sauces:
5.1 Light Burgersauce instead of Mayonnaise
For the white sauce I use… Sour cream, créme fraîche, lemon juice, a little mustard and salt/pepper – sometimes some cayenne pepper.
Dijon mustard tastes better to me personally, the exact quantities can be found in the recipe section below. You can always season this sauce with mayonnaise, I don’t do that because I like the light taste very much.
A homemade, light burger sauce tastes finer and lighter than a sauce with mayonnaise.
5.2 Ketchup on Burger
The handle to the ketchup bottle is a simple and… So that here new ideas come on the table follows the one or other suggestion:
Crush the fresh tomatoes in a mixer and season to taste with salt, sugar and pepper.
Sprinkle tomato slices with sugar and caramelize in a pan or with the Crème Brulée Brenner.
Bake caramelized tomatoes in a hand blender and refine with herbs.
Honestly, Pesto is always in my fridge, I love this simple green sauce. So I make two out of three burgers with green basil sauce. You can find my pesto recipe elsewhere.
You want it to go even faster? You can try the pesto sauces in the supermarket or at an Italian retailer.
Pesto Sauce Tip from Chef Thomas Sixt
Pay attention to the colour when shopping for pesto! The greener (not greyer) the better!
Before we go into the kitchen I have prepared some nice pictures and ideas…
6.1 Port Onions
Raw onions are sometimes a problem, try red onions cooked in port wine. The onion cabbage has already been served in Michelin-starred restaurants and is an excellent accompaniment to a burger!
Hi Thomas!
Wow…..wow…wow…yummy ,thank you master chef
BR David