cook up a cottage-perfect burger, Summerhill Market Style
There’s nothing like a good homemade burger, especially when it's made with Summerhill's AAA Angus ground beef!
Our top-notch beef makes it easy to craft an incredibly flavourful, tender, and juicy burger everyone will love. All you have to do is grab a good handful of our premium ground beef, sprinkle with sea salt, and shape into 1½ inch high patties. Don't mash the beef too much or you'll get a dense burger—you want a light, soft, almost airy end result.
Follow our easy "How to Make The Best Burger at Home" recipe below, complete with cooking times. We’ve topped our burger with mayo, dill pickles, avocado, tomatoes, fresh herbs, and stuffed it with Summerhill's Thin Market Fries! Yum!
Pick up our best-quality ground beef (or prepared burger patties) and your favourite toppings. Then serve up a restaurant-worthy cottage-perfect burger Summerhill Market style. Enjoy!
How to Make the Best Burger at Home Recipe
Ingredients:
1 1/2 pounds Summerhill's AAA Angus ground beef
Sea salt
4 to 6 hamburger buns, split, buttered, and toasted
Favourite burger toppings: mayo, sliced tomatoes, sliced onions, lettuce, ketchup, mustard, pickles, cheese slices
Instructions:
Divide the ground beef into 4 or 6 portions, depending on the number of burgers you would like to make. Gently press each portion of ground beef into a disk about 1 to 1 ½ inches thick. Press the middle slightly to create a shallow dimple—this should prevent the patty from shrinking as it cooks. Form into rounds slightly larger than your burger buns. Don't worry if there are some cracks in the edges; try not to mash the beef too much as you shape the patties.
If you're cooking these on your BBQ, oil your grill slightly. If you're cooking indoors, heat a pat of butter or a teaspoon of neutral oil on your grill or cast iron skillet over medium heat. Be gentle; don't flip your burgers back and forth. Allow them to form a good crust before flipping, then finish on the other side until desired doneness, using the cooking times below as your guide.
To serve, place burgers on a large platter with toasted buns and all the toppings, and allow everyone to create their favourite.
Burger Cooking Times:
Medium-rare (red in the middle): 6 minutes total
Medium (pink in the middle): 7 to 8 minutes total
Medium-well (a smidge of pink in middle): 9 minutes total
Well-done (no pink): 10 minutes total
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