Truffled Burger
A Truffle a Day — Day 22
Sometimes you just want a burger! Nothing fancy — just a plain old savory, juicy hunk of ground beef, cooked just the way you like it. Enter the truffle burger.
Ingredients:
¼ pound ground beef per person
1 freshly-baked brioche roll (or cathead biscuit) per person
Salt and pepper, to taste
1 tablespoon bacon fat or olive oil
1 very finely sliced onion
1 very thin sliver Swiss cheese per person
Several truffle slivers
Preparation:
Pick up the freshest ground beef you can find at your local butcher’s. Form 1-inch thick patties that are the width of your freshly-baked biscuits or buns. Salt and pepper both sides. Heat a skillet so that it will sear your burger as soon as it touches the pan. Melt some bacon fat or heat some olive oil, and introduce the patties. Cook to your desired doneness (rosy in the center means extra juiciness and flavor!).
Meanwhile, put the buns in the oven just enough to warm through and toast slightly on the top. Place your patty on the bottom bun and immediately place truffle slivers on the hot patty, with a thin sliver of cheese on top of that. Toss the onions in the pan you used for the patties, and sauté them until slightly brown. Place on top of the cheese, add the top bun, et voilà!
A Truffle a Day is a series of one-a-day truffle recipes, excerpted from the soon-to-be-released Cooking with Truffles: A Chef’s Guide. All recipes can be prepared with or without truffles, depending on the voluptuousness of your pantry.
