Smash Burgers

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I couldn’t emotion these Smash Burgers more! Skip takeout, these burgers are ace speedy to make (I mean earnestly fast!) and incredibly delicious.

What’s a Smash Burger?

A celebrated favourite (and for bully reason!), smash burgers are made by pressing a seasoned beef patty into a basking aboveground for illustration a grill, griddle, aliases skillet. This creates a thin, oversized patty pinch caramelized edges that cooks successful conscionable a mates of minutes.

Flavor: Step aside, takeout burgers, this smash burger look is cooked astatine a precocious somesthesia for a crisp and caramelized flavor. The burger condiment is creamy and tangy!
Recipe Tip: Ensure nan beef is measured retired into mini 2.5 to 3oz portions arsenic they request to beryllium pressed bladed to get nan crispy lacy edges.
Recommended tools: A burger press is simply a bully finance if this smash burger look is connected regular rotation. You tin make these without a burger property excessively (check nan look notes).
Serving suggestions: Make a BYO (build your own) burger barroom pinch each nan fixins.

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Smash Burger Ingredients

Beef: An 80/20 blend provides nan correct equilibrium of crushed beef to fat.
Sauce: Make this tangy condiment from ingredients apt already connected hand. Adjust nan amounts aliases make it spicy and operation successful a small chili sauce, sweeter pinch brownish sugar, aliases savory pinch a scatter of balsamic vinegar.
Buns: Use regular burger buns, brioche buns, aliases effort a murphy bun.

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tangy condiment successful a vessel for Smash Burgers

How to Make Smash Burgers

Prepare nan sauce, toast nan buns, and group some aside.
Mix beef pinch seasonings and shape into 8 balls.
Press patties successful a griddle aliases formed robust cookware (full look below).
Cook patties connected some sides.
Top 4 patties pinch food and stack nan different 4 patties connected top.
Assemble and adhd toppings arsenic desired.

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adding seasonings to crushed beef balls to make Smash Burgers

Best Burger Toppings

Smash burgers tin beryllium topped pinch slices of American food for nan eventual melt, but cheddar adds awesome flavor. Swiss, Pepper Jack, aliases Colby are bully options too.
Like regular hamburgers, this look would sensation awesome pinch bacon.
Bbq condiment tin beryllium added arsenic a topping, too, if desired.

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Tips for Perfect Smash Burgers

Preheat nan cookware aliases griddle truthful a fewer drops of h2o connected nan aboveground sizzle.
Use parchment insubstantial betwixt nan nutrient and nan burger press.
Smash burgers navigator fast, truthful beryllium judge to person nan condiment prepared, nan buns toasted, and each nan toppings ready.
If making much than 2 astatine a clip (each burger takes 2 patties), support nan cooked ones connected a lukewarm cookware successful nan oven.

Leftover Burger Patties?

Smash burger patties tin beryllium stiff earthy aliases cooked and cooled, betwixt layers of parchment paper, for up to 1 month.

Leftovers tin beryllium chopped up for a hamburger soup aliases added to a Bolognese.

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Smash Burgers

This easy look for smash burgers makes crispy flattened burgers stacked connected buns, pinch a tasty condiment and toppings.

Prep Time 20 minutes

Cook Time 15 minutes

Total Time 35 minutes

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For nan Sauce

▢ ½ cup mayonnaise
▢ 3 tablespoons ketchup or 4 tablespoons chili sauce
▢ 2 teaspoons mustard
▢ 1 tablespoon grated dill pickles
▢ ½ teaspoon onion powder
▢ ½ teaspoon granulated sugar

For nan Burgers

▢ 1 ½ pounds lean crushed beef 80/20
▢ 1 teaspoon salt
▢ ½ teaspoon garlic powder
▢ ½ teaspoon black pepper

For Serving

▢ 4 hamburger buns
▢ 2 tablespoons butter softened
▢ 4 slices cheddar cheese
▢ lettuce tomatoes, pickles, onions arsenic desired

For nan sauce, successful a mean vessel harvester mayonnaise, ketchup, mustard, dill pickle, bulb powder, and sugar. Mix good and refrigerate for serving.
For nan burgers, successful a mini bowl, harvester salt, ail powder, and achromatic capsicum and group speech for seasoning.
Butter nan trim broadside of each bun.
Divide nan beef into 8 pieces, 3 ounces each, and rotation into balls. Cut an 8-inch quadrate of parchment paper.
Preheat a griddle aliases formed robust skillet complete precocious heat. A sprinkle of h2o should creation connected nan power and quickly evaporate erstwhile ready.
Add nan buns to nan griddle and navigator for 2 to 3 minutes aliases until golden. Transfer to a plate.
Add nan beef and apical pinch nan quadrate of parchment paper. Press pinch a burger press aliases dense spatula until flattened to ⅛-inch thickness. Peel nan parchment insubstantial disconnected and repetition pinch nan remaining patties. Season nan tops pinch half of nan seasoning.
Cook for 90 seconds. Flip over, season, and navigator nan different broadside for 60 to 90 seconds.
Top 4 of nan patties pinch cheese. Stack a 2nd patty connected apical of each portion of food truthful you person 4 stacks of 2 patties.
Transfer nan patties to nan hamburger buns and adhd toppings to taste.

If you scheme to make smash burgers frequently, it’s worthy investing successful a burger press. If you’re making them occasionally, you tin usage immoderate dense entity to flatten nan burgers. Place nan nutrient connected nan basking skillet, screen it pinch a quadrate of parchment paper, and property down pinch nan bottommost of a mini dense saucepan aliases skillet.
Alternatively, you tin rotation nan burger patties to ⅛-inch betwixt 2 pieces of parchment insubstantial earlier adding to nan skillet, though nan method supra is recommended for searing nan burgers.

Nutrition accusation provided is an estimate and will alteration based connected cooking methods and brands of ingredients used.

Course Beef, Dinner, Lunch, Main Course, Sandwich

Cuisine American

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Holly Nilsson is nan creator of Spend With Pennies, wherever she creates easy, comforting recipes made for existent life. With a passion for nostalgic flavors and simplified techniques, Holly helps engaged location cooks create delicious meals that ever work. She is besides nan writer of “Everyday Comfort,” which promises to animate moreover much hearty, home-cooked meals.
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