Oven-roasted burgers in 20 minutes

Love the burger but hate using a BBQ? Sandi Richard shows us how to craft a drool-worthy BBQ-quality burger using your own oven.

Love the burger but hate using a BBQ? Sandi Richard shows us how to craft a drool-worthy BBQ-quality burger using your own oven.

Oven roasted burgers in 20 minutes

Ingredients:

  • 1/3 cup salt
  • 2 lbs (900 g) extra lean ground beef
  • 1 pot Knorr Homestyle Stock beef
  • 1 Tbsp (15 mL) Worcestershire sauce
  • Fresh ground pepper
  • 1/2 of an onion (optional)
  • 2 Tbsp bacon bits (optional)
  • 1/4 cup grated cheddar (optional)
  • 6 buns

Method:

Preheat oven to 475 F (220 C). Line a baking sheet with foil. Spread salt over foil, then place a cooling rack over top. (The salt sops up the oil that drizzles from the burgers. You don’t end up with heavy smoke from the high temperature.)

Break up Knorr Homestyle Stock with a fork in a medium size mixing bowl. Add beef, Worcestershire and pepper. Mix until well combined. (I just use my hands.) Loosely form 6 burgers and place on cooling rack. Place pan in centre of preheated oven. Set timer for 15 minutes.

Optional: Slice onion into round discs. When timer rings, place an onion disk on each burger and top with a few bacon bits. Return to oven and reset timer for 5 minutes. When timer rings again, top with cheese, turn oven off, but leave burgers in. Toss buns into oven on lower rack for 2 minutes.

By the time you take out your condiments, the buns will be warm and the cheese will have melted. YUM!

Makes 6 burgers

Courtesy Sandi Richard

www.cookingfortherushed.com

@sandi_richard