pub grub essentials: steak chili/cheese burger

How To Make pub grub essentials: steak chili/cheese burger

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  PREP/PREPARE
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  Gather Your Ingredients.
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  Rough grind the steak.
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  Chef’s Note: You have a few choices for grinding your steak. 1. You could use your own meat grinder. 2. You could put it in a food processor, fitted with an S-Blade, and give it a few 1-second pulses until it’s roughly ground. 3. You could have your butcher do it for you.
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  Chef’s Note: There are many advantages to grinding your own meat. It’s usually cheaper then pre-ground beef, and the taste of a freshly-ground burger is just so much better than pre-ground, pre-packaged, shrink-wrapped beef. It also reduces the chances for food-born illnesses.
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  Add the ground beef, onion, pepper, and grapeseed oil to a small bowl, and gently mix to combine.
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  Chef’s Tip: Never add salt to ground beef… never. When it cooks the salt will denature the proteins on the inside of the beef and give it a mushy mouth feel. Salt the outside before cooking, but never the inside.
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  Form the beef into a patty, but don’t press the meat together. It should have a cohesive structure without too much compaction.
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  Sprinkle with a bit of salt, on both sides.
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  Add the chili to a small saucepan and bring up to a simmer.
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  Place a sauté pan over medium heat, and allow the pan to get nice and hot.
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  Add the patty to the sauté pan.
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  Chef’s Tip: You should hear a nice sizzle as it hits the pan.
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  Chef's Note: Cook without moving for about 3 – 5 minutes.
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  Carefully flip, and then cook for an additional 3 – 5 minutes.
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  PREP/PREPARE
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  Add some condiments, and a bit of cheese to the bottom of the bun.
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  Chef’s Note: When I’m creating a chiliburger, the only condiment I want is yellow mustard… but that’s just me.
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  Add the burger to the bottom bun.
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  Pour the simmering chili over the burger.
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  Immediately add the shredded cheese.
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  PLATE/PRESENT
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  Serve while nice and hot with your favorite sides. Enjoy.
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  Keep the faith, and keep cooking.
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  ADDITIONAL RECIPES
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  If you are looking for a really good chili, check this one out: https://www.justapinch.com/recipes/main-course/beef/absolutely-awesome-hotdog-chili-sauce.html?p=11
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