The Living Room Restaurant's Alberta Beef Burger

By The Canadian Living Test Kitchen

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The Living Room Restaurant's Alberta Beef Burger

This recipe makes 4 servings

Nutritional Info
Per serving: about	-
cal	572572 cal
pro	37 g37g pro
total fat	24 g24g total fat
sat. fat	10 g10g sat. fat
carb	51 g51g carb
fibre	6 g6g fibre
chol	121 mg121mg chol
sodium	2 mg2mg sodium
% RDI:	-
calcium	2222 calcium
iron	3939 iron
vit A	88 vit A
vit C	77 vit C
folate	4343 folate

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This burger from The Living Room Restaurant in Calgary makes the best-dressed burger list in Alberta, according to John Gilchrist, a restaurant critic for CBC Radio. Andrew Keen, executive chef and co-owner of the restaurant, swears by extra-lean Alberta-raised Galloway beef, but these patties are tasty with any ground beef. Unusual additions, such as miso, capers and sweet gherkins, give the burgers a complex, full flavour.

Ingredients

1 egg 1 1eggeggs
1/4 cup dry bread crumbs 1/4 1/4cup cupdry bread crumbs
1/4 1/4cup cupfinely chopped sweet gherkin picklesweet gherkin pickles
2 2shallotshallots, finely chopped, or 1 small onion, grated
2 tbsp capers 2 2tbsp tbspcapercapers
2 tbsp light-colour miso 2 2tbsp tbsplight-colour miso
2 tbsp Dijon mustard 2 2tbsp tbspDijon mustard
1 clove garlic , minced1 1clove garliccloves of garlic, minced
2 tsp minced gingerroot 2 2tsp tspminced gingerroot
2 tsp chopped fresh thyme 2 2tsp tspchopped fresh thyme
1/2 tsp salt 1/2 1/2tsp tspsalt
1/2 tsp pepper 1/2 1/2tsp tsppepper
1 lb lean ground beef 1 1lb lblean ground beef
4 onion buns 4 4onion bunonion buns or hamburger buns
2/3 cup crumbled blue cheese 2/3 2/3cup cupcrumbled blue cheese
half small red onions , thinly slicedhalf halfsmall red onionred onions, thinly sliced

Preparation

In bowl, beat egg. Stir in bread crumbs, pickles, shallots, capers, miso, mustard, garlic, ginger, thyme, salt and pepper; mix in beef. Shape into four 1/2-inch (1 cm) thick patties. (Make-ahead: Cover and refrigerate for up to 6 hours. Or layer between waxed paper in airtight container and freeze for up to 1 month; thaw in refrigerator.)

Place patties on greased grill over medium-high heat; close lid and cook, turning once, until no longer pink inside, about 10 minutes.

Cut buns in half; place, cut sides down, on grill and toast until golden, 1 to 2 minutes. Layer burgers, blue cheese then red onion on bottoms; sandwich with tops.