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Venison Burgers
DIR By: allmanav
Date: April 4, 2020, 7:11 am
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At our annual deer camp in the Adirondacks, we haven't had the
best luck with filling our tags (that's, um, putting it
lightly), but we sure do eat well. Breakfast burritos and
pancakes for breakfast. Peanut butter, bacon, and honey wraps
for an in-the-woods lunch. And a rotating dinner menu of feasts
that usually showcase game meat—mule deer spiedies, venison
Bolognese, cassoulet, and, when it's my night to cook, venison
smash burgers.
I have the inimitable Guy Fieri to thank for this recipe. Years
ago, for an episode of "Diners, Drive-ins, and Dives," he paid a
visit to White Manna Hamburgers, a Jersey institution, and the
short-order cooks there gave a clinic in the art of the smash
burger. As soon as I saw those perfect burgers come off the
flat-top, I knew that’s how I’d cook my venison burgers from
then on. Here’s how it’s done.
Ingredients
2 pounds ground venison (80 percent venison, 20 beef fat),
portioned into ¼-pound patties.
Vegetable oil
White onion, thinly sliced
American cheese
Potato buns
Salt and pepper, to taste
Directions
Get the griddle ripping hot, then add some oil to the
cooking surface.
Place the patties on the griddle, season generously with
salt and pepper, then smash them thin with a spatula. Add a
small pile of the onions on top of each patty, then give them
another smash so the onions stick to the patties. Cook for about
2 to 2 ½ minutes.
Flip the burgers, so they continue to cook onion-side down.
Top each patty with a slice of cheese, then add the buns. The
bottom bun goes on top of the cheese, cut-side down, and the top
bun rests on the on the bottom bun (see photo above), also
cut-side down. This steams the buns while the burgers finish
cooking. Let the burgers cook for about 1 to 1 ½ minutes.
Lift each burger from the griddle with the spatula, then
remove the top bun and place it, cut-side up, under the spatula,
temporarily sandwiching the spatula and patty between both buns.
Gently squeeze the top and bottom buns with one hand and slide
the spatula out with the other. Pass the burger off to hunting
buddy, and repeat with the rest. Each hunter gets two burgers.
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