Tasty burgers/ steaklets

My daughter came round to lunch unexpectedly with my grandson  and so I had to stretch the meat that I had. I had meant to make steaklets for the two us, but instead made the mixture into burgers to feed 4.

I had about 7oz of minced pork. These work well with minced chicken or turkey as well. Beef is so expensive now but Mr S loves his burgers. I find this recipe is a tasty alternative. The ingredients and spices are flexible and you can use what you like or have in. The recipe is what I used from what I had in the fridge. I don’t like to put specific amounts as you can use what you have. I have used grated carrot, chopped frozen peas and sweet corn, bits of mushroom, chilli etc, before.

Ingredients.

6oz minced chicken or pork, or more.

1 grated small onion

2 cloves of garlic

1/4 finely chopped red pepper

1/4 finely chopped green pepper

A handful of finely chopped parsley.

1 tsp each of garlic powder and smoked paprika.

1/2 tsp of cayene pepper

A good pinch of salt.

Method

1. Mix all of the ingredients into a bowl.

2. Spread the mixture out into a square or rectangle. I do this on a silicone mat. If I am making steaklets to serve as a meal I make it double thickness.  This was for burgers.

3. Divide into servings. I use the bottom of my grater to make them equal.

4. I airfried mine for about 15 minutes and checked them with a meat thermometer. They can be fried or grilled.

I had some mixture left over and so I made meat balls with the mixture and cooked and froze them to make a frugal meal another day. I also froze 2 burgers as I had made 6. It is amazing how far you can stretch food if you need or want to.