6.24.2008

Market on Fountain Square - Recipes and Photos

Thank you, thank you to all who stopped down today - and what a beautiful day it was.

As promised, here are the recipes for both the Cuban Burger (see previous entry from last week) as well as the Char Cheddar Burger.

Char Cheddar Burger

Yield: 20 4oz. burgers

Prep Time: 10 minutes
Cook Time: 17 minutes

Burger Ingredients:
5 pounds ground beef
1 tablespoon kosher salt
1/2 tablespoon cracked black pepper
1 tablespoon steak seasoning
1/2 beer (any beer will do)
20 buns

Cheddar Ingredients:
3 tablespoons melted butter
3 tablespoons flour
3 cups whole milk
5 cups shredded sharp cheddar
4 oz. cream cheese
1 tablespoon salt
2 teaspoons paprika

Burger Instructions:
- combine all ingredients together and form 4 oz. burger patties
- put patties on grill. grill for 10 minutes, flip and then 7 additional minutes
- place burger on a bun, spoon generous amounts of cheddar on top of burger and serve

Cheddar Instructions:
- in a sauce pot, melt butter
- whisk in flour to make a roux
- once combined, cook for approximately 2 minutes and then add all milk.
- whisk together to be sure lumps do not form
- on medium high heat, now add sharp cheddar as well as cream cheese
- stir and add salt, pepper and paprika

2 comments:

johnf said...

The cuban burger was great today (I'll be back!) the recipe for the char burger looks really good too but what do you do with the remaining 1/2 beer? :)

Cooking with Caitlin said...

ha ha

just uploaded photos - a good one of you - check it out. Thanks for coming!!