Hamburgers, Scandinavian Style

Submitted by BLUE ROSE

"For the food world tour I found a different way to make a hamburger. I made the burgers and the onion mixture the night before. Time does not include marinating time."

 

• Ready In: 1hr 5mins
• Ingredients: 13
• Serves: 16

ingredients

• 1 lb ground beef
• 1 lb ground veal
• 1⁄4 cup ketchup
• 1 tablespoon onion, minced
• 2 teaspoons salt
• 1 teaspoon pepper
• 1 teaspoon celery seed
• 1⁄4 teaspoon garlic powder
• 1⁄2 cup red wine vinegar
• 1⁄4 cup salad oil
• 1⁄2 teaspoon dill weed
• 2 medium red onions, thinly sliced
• 1 loaf rye bread or 8 rye rolls

directions

1. In large bowl mix beef, veal, ketchup, instant minced onion, salt, pepper, celery seed and garlic powder. Shape mixture into 16 thin patties; chill.
2. Mix red wine vinegar, salad oil and dill weed.
3. Place onion slices in a shallow glass dish; pour vinegar mixture over onions. Cover; refrigerate at least 30 minutes.
4. Grill burgers according to how you like your burgers.
5. Wrap rye bread in a single thickness of heavy duty aluminum foil. Place on grill 4" from medium coals. Heat 20 minutes, turning occasionally.
6. Remove red onions from marinade.
7. Top burgers with onions.
8. Use reserved marinade for extra sauce on the burgers if you want to.

Reviews

[bmcnichol]

I cut the recipe in half and made this for my boys. I used all beef because I didn't have any veal but followed the rest of the recipe as written. My boys enjoyed them as they were different.

 

[little_wing]

These were really tasty! I used all beef instead of veal (just can't bring myself to eat it) and also added some havarti cheese and grilled it all like a patty melt. Delicious. Had a pasta salad as a side and enjoyed very much. Thanks for sharing. Made for ZWT3

 

[Vicki in CT]

Hi, liked the idea of putting onion and catsup in the meat patties. I guess we're used to loading up on condiments and cheese with our burgers so felt a little something was missing for our American tastes. We did like the vinegar flavor and onion together. We made our burgers thicker too. Thanks for posting.

 

[bluemoon downunder]

A delicious, flavoursome and moist burger, Blue Rose. Although the recipe was for a sizable number of burgers, it sounded ideal for freezing so I doubled it. So there are lots in the freezer too! I made a few small changes (to cater for personal taste preferences). I can get superb quality ground veal/pork from my butcher’s, so I used that. I used Evelyn's Fried Red Tomatoes Recipe #121041 instead of the catsup which I sometimes find too sharp, and I minced 1 onion and 4 cloves of garlic in my mini processor. And as you suggested, I made these the night before, and stacked them on trays with kitchen paper between the layers. Next evening, I pan-fried 6 (I made mine about two and a half to three inches across), to serve 3 people and stashed the rest away in the freezer, for quite a few future meals! Since I was only serving some of the burgers on the night, I halved the quantities of the red onion and marinade ingredients, which was a great addition! Step 5 says to reserve the marinade, but I was unsure what I was supposed to do with it. I served these burgers with the fabulously-flavoured marinated onions and my recently-posted Maroulosalata (Classic Greek Lettuce Salad) Recipe #141988. Thanks so much for sharing this recipe, Blue Rose. I'll be making it again, once we've eaten what's in the freezer!

 

[PanNan]

These unusual hamburgers were very good. I made them in the panini grill, and because they were so thin, they cooked in just a couple of minutes. We put two on each bun with some cheese inbetween, then put some of the tart red onion on top. My daughter and her friend liked them so much, they split a second one. Thanks for sharing your recipe.