Mozzarella Sauced Spicy Burgers

Submitted by Derf2440

"------Mozzarella Tomato Mushroom sauce over spicy beef burgers.--------"

 

• Ready In: 45mins
• Ingredients: 18
• Serves: 4

ingredients

• 453.59 g beef, minced, extra lean is best
• 29.58 ml soy sauce
• 118.29 ml onion, white, chopped
• 236.59 ml fresh carrot, grated, about 1 large
• 1 egg, lightly beaten
• 4.92 ml fennel seed, crushed
• 2.46 ml ginger
• 2.46 ml cumin
• 2.46 ml coriander
• 2.46 ml cayenne pepper, divided
• 212.62 g can pizza sauce, I used hot and spicy
• 118.29 ml fresh mushrooms, sliced
• 29.58 ml fresh parsley
• 9.85-14.78 ml cornstarch
• 14.78 ml water
• 354.88 ml mozzarella cheese, shredded
• 226.79 g mozzarella cheese, sliced
• 4 hamburger buns

directions

1. Preheat oven to 400f degrees.
2. Slice bun in half and place on non stick cookie tray; top each half with cheese slices; set aside.
3. In a large bowl combine beef, soy sauce, onions, carrots, egg, fennel seeds, ginger, cumin, coriander and 1/4 teaspoon cayenne pepper, mix well.
4. Separate meat mixture into 4 portions and form into burgers; place on wire rack in an oven roaster; bake for 30 minutes or until no longer pink inside.
5. While burgers are cooking make the cheese sauce in a nonstick saucepan over medium heat; combine pizza sauce, mushrooms and parsley, bring to simmer; add all of the shredded cheese and the other quarter teaspoon of cayenne.
6. Simmer uncovered for 10 minutes.
7. Make a slurry of the cornstarch and the water; add to cheese mixture while stirring, simmer until thickened about 5 or 6 minutes.
8. When the burgers have cooked for 20 minutes, place the tray of cheese topped buns in the oven with them, to toast and melt the cheese slices.

9. To assemble:

10. Place burger on bottom half of the cheesed bun, spoon sauce over the burger and top with the other half of the cheesed bun.
11. Serve with a green salad or oven fries.
12. Enjoy!

Reviews

[WacoCookGirl]

Love it but a little spicy

 

[ncmysteryshopper]

Great Burger Recipe and very easy to prepare. The sauce mixture was very good. DH2B thought the burger tasted more like meatloaf on a bun and missed the burger taste, but still liked the recipe. My sauce mixture was very thick from the onset so there was no need to mix cornstarch and water. Really loved the mushrooms in the recipe. Good Luck Chef!

 

[Susie D]

We liked this RSC entry and appreciated the different spin in flavor using the same ingredients during the contest. The patties went together well and held together during cooking. Other than extra sauce I have no complaints. Good luck during the contest!

 

[Pamela]

An interesting use of contest ingredients! This was the second recipe that I tried. If I were to make this again, I would leave out the soy sauce as I feel it did not complement the other flavours of the recipe and I would not use the corn starch to thicken it but rather a bit of tomato paste. I think this recipe would work well for OAMC by making the patties ahead of time and then the sauce right before serving. Good luck in the contest!

 

[Bergy]

I looked at this recipe and thought "Carrots, weird combo of spices and that sure is a lot of cheese but heck let's try it" Well am I ever glad that I did. I love burgers and this one is worth every bit of the work up to make it. - It is top of the line as far as I am concerned. Fabulous flavor and I will make it again. The instructions are very clear & I followed them. I cut the recipe back to half with no problems. However when I make this again I will pan fry the meat patties on medium heat cover them and when they are almost cooked I would add all the sauce ingredients to the fry pan with the burgers for about 6 minutes. Thanks chef - who ever you are this is a winner recipe