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Homemade burgers

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Serves: 4
Prep time: 20 mins
Cooking time: 10 mins

(3-5 mins on each side)
Total time: 30 mins
Skill level: Easy peasy
Costs: Cheap as chips

Homemade beef burgers are much tastier than shop-bought – and they aren’t much harder to make. All you need to do is combine a little mince with some binding agents and a little flavouring. Our homemade burger recipe is perfect for the BBQ or for a family meal – and if you make them from scratch, you know exactly what’s going in them! You can use classic beef mince to make these burgers or replace it with turkey or pork for a lighter taste – or vegetarian mince like Quorn can be used as a meat substitute

Ingredients

500g good quality mince
Good pinch of oregano
1tsp salt
Pinch of black pepper
Handful of breadcrumbs
1 egg, lightly beaten

To serve:

Loaf of ciabatta
1 iceberg lettuce
4 medium tomatoes

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Top tip: The eggs and breadcrumbs aren’t essential but will help bind the ingredients together.

Method

Place all of the burger ingredients in a large bowl and mix together or whizz all the ingredients in a food processor until the mixture starts holding together.
Shape the burgers into round flat discs with wetted hands. To get perfectly round shapes, press the mixture into a metal pastry cutter. Don’t over-handle the burgers or they’ll be tough and dry when cooked.
Place the burgers on the barbecue or in a frying pan and cook until they’re done all the way through and there’s no pinkness in the middle. To check this, press down the top of a burger with a fish slice – if there are pink juices oozing out, then cook for a few more minutes.
Serve on a lightly toasted ciabatta with lettuce and sliced tomato.

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Pear Bircher muesli with pecans and ginger

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Serves: 4
Prep time: 15 mins
Total time: 15 mins
Skill level: Easy peasy
Costs: Cheap as chips

The beauty of Bircher is that you don’t have to stand over a stove to cook it and lose some of your porridge to the bottom of the pan. An overnight of soaking the oats in the fridge means dishing up quickly in the morning, leaving you more time to get ready for the day – or maybe even spend an extra hour in bed! We’ve gone for a twist on the apple variety using pear instead, with an added crunchy topping made with pecans, ginger and maple syrup. Yum!

Ingredients

3 dessert pears, peeled, cored and then grated
1tsp ground ginger
300g porridge oats
650ml mixed apple and pear juice
4tbsp maple syrup
1tbsp sunflower oil
1 ball stem ginger, chopped finely plus a tbsp of syrup from the jar
75g pecan halves, roughly chopped
30g sultanas

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Bircher muesli is easy to play around with and adapt. Try out different fruit combos to see what you’d like and even squeeze in one of your five a day!

Method

In a large bowl, combine the grated pear and ground ginger. Add the oats and juice, stir well and then leave overnight.
Whilst the oats are soaking make your crunchy topping. Pre-heat the oven to 350°F/175°C/Electric Fan 160°C/Gas Mark 4 and prepare a baking tray with baking paper. Combine the two syrups, oil and then add the pecans and chopped ginger. Spread on the baking tray and pop in the oven.
After 10 mins take the tray out, give it a quick stir and add the sultanas. Give it another little stir and put back into the oven for another 10 mins. Remove from the oven, cool and then transfer to an airtight container until ready to use.
About 30-45 mins before you’re ready to plate up, take the soaked oats out of the fridge so it gets close to room temp. Dish up into bowls and then scatter on the pecan and ginger topping. Drizzle over some extra maple syrup if you’d like, then serve.

By Nadine Brown

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