Ina Garten's Secret to Transforming a 'Good Burger Into a Great Burger' Is This Easy-to-Make Topping
Burger season is right around the corner, and if you’re anything like us, then you can’t wait another second to go outside and grill! Practice for your next backyard BBQ by making burgers Ina Garten-style. The Barefoot Contessa just shared her simple secret for transforming a “good burger into a great burger,” and our mouths are watering already.
In a video posted to Food Network’s YouTube Channel, Garten shows how she makes her Niman Ranch Burgers. Garten recommends using “great ingredients so the volume’s turned up” on the flavor of your hamburgers. Start by preparing your ground beef with liquid ingredients, including olive oil, and spices, then lightly mixing it together with a fork. Roll a third of a pound of hamburger at a time to form the patties. She puts the raw meat in the fridge to stay cool while she works on her secret ingredient: caramelized onions!
“If there’s anything that can make a good burger into a really great one, it’s a big pile of caramelized onions on the top,” Garten reveals. Caramelized onions are my favorite, but for some reason, most people use raw onions cut into thick slices. In Ina we trust, right?
She sautées thinly sliced onions on a pan, with butter and other ingredients. As she mixes it, she praises its simplicity: “simple procedure and you end up with something absolutely delicious!” Garten finishes by adding a few more ingredients and mixing it again.
Now it’s time to grill! As Garten puts the burgers on the beachside grill, she recommends not pressing them down to keep the juices intact. She grills English muffins for the buns, heats up the caramelized onions, and assembles everything.
“Love a great proper burger,” one person commented. “Great ideas ! Thanks for that !” another person wrote.
The cookbook author has offered many different ways to try burgers throughout the years, including her Smashed Hamburgers and Blue Cheese Burgers. This one with caramelized onions looks to be just as tasty as the others!
Get Garten’s full Niman Ranch Burgers with Caramelized Onions recipe online HERE.
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