Lamb-tastic

Alright vegetarians this post is NOT for you.

grilling it up! naan ready to be toasted

Adam once upon a time bought me a book by Ted Allen, called "The Food you want to eat"  I've made a couple recipes from this book and I remember reading this one several times, "The ultimate burger is a lamb burger" and I thought 'riiiiiiiiiiight'

Anyway, the last time I had a lamb burger was at one of my favourite pubs and i didn't like it, it was lamb burger sliders, the seasoning wasn't good the taste was far too strong, almost inedible.  So what possessed me to make one?



I have something of a motto or way of being, I prefer to order things that I can't do or haven't done myself. in other words, I often order new foods, or order things that aren't my strongest methods or styles of cooking (or even cooking I would probably never do - like sushi for instance).   So I had this less than stellar lamb burger, and I keep reading lamb is the ultimate burger...conflicted, I took this s**t on and I WON GLORIOUSLY!

The lamb was from Aubrey's meats in the market, and it was good.  real good.

Inspired very heavily by Ted Allen's ultimate lamb burger

INDIAN SPICED LAMB BURGER



(with cucumber sauce on naan)



some of the spices used...



INGREDIENTS:

1 LB of ground lamb

2T finely diced green onion (white parts too)

1/2t garam masala

1/4t of cumin

1t of coriander seeds, crushed

1/2t turmeric

1T fresh grated ginger

1/4t salt

1/4t pepper

1/8t cayenne pepper



mmmmmmmm, burrrrger

 This recipe is good, here is the original:

http://www.jamieoliver.com/recipes/beef-recipes/a-cracking-burger

Adam wanted to make dinner the other night, and I knew that it would have something to do with meat. It's a hunch I get and I was right.  So we had some fresh ground in the fridge and this burger recipe came to light.  I knew the recipe in my mind and mentioned if he needed substitutions for things, to let me know, we talked alot throughout the recipes preparation :)

Adam has made this recipe before, almost exactly as described in the link above. A few changes were made though.  Find below Adam's adaptation (mostly based on what we had in the house)

A "Cracking" Burger



Burgers with the fixin's in the

backyard

INGREDIENTS
• 1 piece of conventional bread, whizzed up into fresh bread crumbs
• small handful of cilantro - stems and all.
• 2 heaped teaspoons Dijon mustard

• 1 pound extra lean ground beef

• 1 large egg lightly beaten

• salt and fresh ground pepper

Garnishes:(I call this 'whatever you want' because we all have different tastes)
Salsa
Sliced Avocado
Tomato slices
Lettuce leaves

Mustard and ketchup

cheddar cheese


grilling up goodness!