The Kidlet has been enjoying the new cookbook she got from Grammie. The PB&J French toast was a huge success, so she was keen to try another recipe from the same book this past weekend.
She settled on these mini burgers. I was a bit dubious at first, but they were actually really good! And they do look adorable!
It was also kind of cool to realize just how very "homemade" they were. I mean, of course they were homemade in the sense that we made the burgers from the recipe rather than buying a ready-made product. But a lot of the ingredients/components were also homemade.
1 "Our" including Grammie and Grampie here. Back
2 I didn't think to weigh the cheese. I had one of those long, skinny economy size blocks of cheese. I cut an ~3cm chunk of the end and sliced it thin and then cut each slice in half to give 12 approximately square slices. That approach worked quite well, I just failed to actually measure the quantity used. Back
She settled on these mini burgers. I was a bit dubious at first, but they were actually really good! And they do look adorable!
It was also kind of cool to realize just how very "homemade" they were. I mean, of course they were homemade in the sense that we made the burgers from the recipe rather than buying a ready-made product. But a lot of the ingredients/components were also homemade.
- The beef was from one of Grammie and Grampie's cows
- The bread was from a sourdough loaf I'd made a few days ago
- We didn't have any Thousand Island dressing, so we looked up a recipe and made our own
- The pickles were some of Grammie's homemade dill pickles from cucumbers that she grew herself
- The cherry tomatoes were freshly picked from our little hydroponic garden
Mini Burgers with the Works
Slightly adapted from Taste of Home Kid-Approved Cookbook
Ingredients
- 125g extra-lean ground beef
- mild cheddar2
- 4 slices of bread
- 2 Tbsp. Thousand Island dressing
- 1 shallot, thinly sliced
- 1 dill pickle, thinly sliced (crosswise)
- 3-4 cherry tomatoes, thinly sliced
Directions
- Shape the beef into 12 patties. Each one should be ~2.5cm (1") in diameter.
- Microwave on high until cooked through (1-2 minutes).
- Use a 2.5cm (1") round cookie cutter to cut 24 circles out of the bread. (You should get 6 circles per slice. If you don't, just cut more bread as needed.)
- Spread dressing on 12 of the bread circles.
- Place a patty on top of each of the dressed circles.
- Top each patty with a slice of cheese.
- Place a slice of shallot, tomato, and pickle on each burger.
- Top with remaining bread circles and skewer with a toothpick to hold the stack together.
1 "Our" including Grammie and Grampie here. Back
2 I didn't think to weigh the cheese. I had one of those long, skinny economy size blocks of cheese. I cut an ~3cm chunk of the end and sliced it thin and then cut each slice in half to give 12 approximately square slices. That approach worked quite well, I just failed to actually measure the quantity used. Back
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