Ingredients
Scale
- 1½ lb ground beef chuck (80% lean & 20% fat)
- Salt and pepper to taste
- 4 hamburger buns
- Fast Food sauces of your choice ( garlic mayo, pink Sauce, pineapple sauce & green sauce, BBQ ketchup, pineapple mayo)
- Cheese slices (if making cheeseburgers, about 1-2 slices per burger)
- Lettuce (1-2 leaves per burger)
- Tomato slices (1-2 per burger)
- Cooked bacon strips (1-2 per burger)
- Crushed potato chips or matchstick French fries (about a handful per burger)
Instructions
- Divide the ground beef into 4 equal portions. Shape each portion into a ball and flatten it with the palms of your hand to make a burger patty of about 4-5 inches (10 – 13 cm) wide. Make a 2 inch (5 cm) indentation in the center of each patty with your thumbs. This will prevent them from shrinking and bulging in the middle while cooking. Season really well with salt and pepper.
- Grill on medium high heat for about 3-5 minutes per side. You can also cook them on a nonstick pan or skillet on the stove over medium high heat. During the last minute of cooking you can place the hamburger buns on the top rack of the grill to warm them up. If you want to make them into cheeseburgers, at this point you can also place a slice of cheese on each burger patty and close the lid of the grill to let the heat melt the cheese.
- You can use the fast food sauces of your choice to assemble your burgers. Here’s a suggestion to get you started: Spread some BBQ ketchup on the bottom bun, followed by 1-2 leaves of lettuce, 1-2 slices of tomatoes, one cooked burger patty and 1-2 slices of bacon. You can also add some pineapple mayonnaise, place a handful of crushed potato chips or matchstick French fries on top, add pineapple sauce and finish the the top bun.