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Hamburgers à la Française

Beef patties enriched with soft-cooked onion, suet, thyme and egg, floured and seared hard in butter and oil, then sauced Bordelaise-style with a red wine and stock reduction made in the same pan and finished with poached marrow and parsley.

  • YieldServes 6 · 6 medium patties
  • Hands-on38 min
  • Total38 min
  • Difficulty

Ingredients

Patties

  • 110 gonions, finely minced
  • 28 gunsalted butter, for the onions
  • 680 glean ground beef (neck and plate)
  • 2 tbspground beef suet, beef marrow or softened butter
  • 1½ tspsalt
  • 0.13 tspblack pepper
  • 0.13 tspdried thyme
  • 1egg
  • 70 gplain flour, spread on a plate, for dredging
  • 1 tbspunsalted butter
  • 1 tbspneutral cooking oil

Sauce Bordelaise

  • 1 piecebeef marrow bone, about 10 cm long
  • 2 tbspshallots or spring onions, minced
  • 1 tspcornflour, mixed with 1 tsp water
  • 120 mlbeef bouillon
  • 160 mlred wine
  • to tastesalt and pepper
  • 2 tbspflat-leaf parsley, minced

Contains

  • Gluten
  • Dairy
  • Egg
  • Celery
  • Sulfites
  • Birds' eggs (any)
  • Wheat
  • Corn (maize)
  • Grapes
  • Onion family (any)
  • Onion
  • Shallot
  • Cabbage family (any)
  • Carrot
  • Thyme
  • Parsley
  • Black and white pepper
  • All mammal meat (alpha-gal)
  • Beef and veal
  • Gelatin
  • Histamine (aged and fermented foods)
  • Alcohol

Taste

  • Sweet
  • Sour / bright
  • Salty
  • Umami / savory
  • Richness / fat
  • Herbal / fresh

Texture

  • Crisp

Equipment

  • Stovetop

Season

  • Any season

Occasion

  • Weeknight

Effort

  • 20–45 min active
  • 30–60 min total
  • Difficulty 2
  • Kid-friendly

Nutrition

  • Calories: moderate
  • Protein: high
  • Carbs: low
  • Fat: high
  • Fiber: low
  • Sodium: moderate

Budget

  • Budget: low

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