Tempura Red Onion Blue Cheese Burgers - roasted garlic and blue cheese compliment the natural flavour of the beef in this outstanding burger topped with crisp slivers of tempura battered red onion.
Course
Dinner
Prep Time15minutes
Cook Time25minutes
Total Time40minutes
Servings4
AuthorBarry C. Parsons
Ingredients
2poundslean ground beef
1beaten egg
4clovesroasted garlicmashed
2tbspWorcestershire Sauce
2tbsphot sauce
½tspsalt
½tspcracked black pepper
4ouncesblue cheesecrumbled into large pieces
4Kaiser rolls
For the Tempura Red Onions
1egg + enough cold whole milk to make 1 cup
1cupflour
¼inchrings of red onion
Instructions
Mix together all ingredients except the blue cheese.
Gently mix in the blue cheese being careful not to break up the crumbled pieces too much; you want them to be as whole as possible.
Form the meat mixture into 4 large patties and grill until well done.
Serve on fresh toasted Kaiser rolls with your favorite condiments and top with Tempura Red Onions
To prepare the Tempura Red Onions
Heat canola oil in a deep fryer to 350 degrees F
Mix together the milk and egg.
Whisk in the flour. Some lumps in this simple batter is just fine.
Let batter stand for 10 minutes before dipping in the rings of red onion into the tempura batter and then dropping them into the deep fryer.
Cook for only a few minutes until light golden brown.