Tandoori Burgers

In case you haven’t noticed, we have a love of all things curry, spicy and particularly tandoori spiced food. So we figured we’d make a burger that was juicy, spicy and had the wow factor in terms of appearnace (instead of dul grey cooked beef look – we would get a brighter orange colour..after all you eat with your eyes..right?). We’ve been using the same burger recipe for years so we just modified that to make our tandoori burgers.

The burgers pattys are tactually made with a mix of lean beef mince and lamb mince. The lamb naturally contains a lot more fat..but this is what keeps the burgers juicy and rich. A few not-so-secret ingredients (see below) complete the mix. These burgers are best prepared, then frozen and cooked from frozen as they will hold their shape a lot better. The best place to cook them is on the BBQ of course but we have no such luxury in our flat so we made do with a griddle plan.

We figured we would change the toppings to tie in with the theme. So this burger was topped with mango chutney, Greek yoghurt sprinked with cumin, red onion, lettuce, tomato and Ketchup (a burger just wouldn’t be a burger without ketchup!). The orange stuff is a mango chutney chilli sauce made by mixing mango chutney with a hot pepper sauce.

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Ingredients

• 2 parts lean beef mince to 1 part lamb mince ( we used 500g beef and 250g lamb)
• Fresh coriander (approx 40g)
• Fresh Mint (approx 40g)
• 1 tbsp greek yoghurt
• 1 tsp pureed garlic
• 1 tsp pureed ginger
• 1/2 tsp ground coriander
• 1 tsp garam masala
• 1/2 tsp curry powder
• 1 tsp Raja tandoori spice mix
• 1/2 tsp salt
• 1/2 tsp black pepper
• 2 tsp fish sauce (try it!)
• 1 tsp Worcestershire sauce