Texas Toast Smashburgers Recipe
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Ingredients: 1.5-2lb ground beef (no leaner than 75%)
1 medium white onion, very thinly sliced
Kosher salt and freshly ground black pepper, to taste
8 slices American or cheddar cheese
Texas Toast:
½ cup salted butter, softened
3 garlic cloves, finely chopped
3 tbsp finely chopped parsley
1 medium load white bread, cut into 8¾-in-thick slices
Burger Sauce:
½ cup mayonnaise
2 tbsp Dijon mustard
2½ tsp sugar
2 tbsp of your favorite (red) hot sauce
Kosher salt and freshly ground black pepper, to taste
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Directions:1. To begin making the Texas Toast, preheat the oven to broil. (The original recipe says to pan grill them, but I don't think it works as well)
2. In a medium bowl, whisk together the butter, garlic, and parsley. Spread the garlic butter over both sides of each slice of white bread. Broil the bread slices on a baking sheet until toasted on each side.
3. To make the burger sauce, in a small bowl, combine the mayonnaise, Dijon mustard, sugar, and hot sauce. Stir until combined. Season to taste with salt and pepper, but don't be crazy here, you may want to taste it before adding the salt, this burger gets pretty rich as is.
4. Divide the beef into 8 evenly sized pieces, about 2½ to 3 ounces each. Form each piece into a ball.
5. Generously sauce one side of two slices of toast (This is what is in the cookbook, I agree with the generous saucing, but I would only do the bottom slice, not both).
6. Generously coat a 12-inch cast-iron skillet with cooking spray and preheat over medium-high heat. Place 2 beef balls in the hot skillet, leaving at least 3 inches between the balls. Top a ball with a small mound of white onion and then smash the ball with a flat spatula or a burger press until it's slightly less than ¼ thick. Season the patty with salt and pepper and sear for 45 seconds. Flip the patty and top with a slice of American or cheddar cheese and let it melt (I like white American cheese for this). When the cheese is melted, the patty is cooked.
7. Remove it from the pan and place it on the toasted and sauced bottom piece of toast. Repeat the process with the other patty and then top the first patty with the second. (This works best when done on a large griddle so you can cook patties for multiple burgers simultaneously.) Top the patties with the second slice of toast. Repeat with all the remaining patties and toast. Enjoy immediately. |
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Notes: This recipe is from Joshua Weissman's cookbook, he is around Holly and I's age and runs a really successful Youtube channel centered around cooking. It is delicious, but the first time I made this Holly and I couldn't even finish one burger because it was so damn salty. I took a few liberties in this adaptation to try and remedy that, and with our most recent attempt, it felt like they came out almost perfect, easily making them one of the best homemade burgers I have ever had. Still, I wouldn't eat this unless your planning on going straight to bed afterward. Tater tots are our preferred side with these.
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