Easy and Delicious Recipes

Author: Sarah Berthold

How to Make Beef Bulgogi Kimbap

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Today, I’m going to share with you how to make Beef Bulgogi Kimbap, the Korean version of Japanese “maki,” or rice rolls. This fantastic taste comes from sesame oil and independently seasoned meats and veggies. What is Bulgogi Kimbap? Kimbap is a Korean Seaweed Rice Read More

Beef Liver Pate Recipe

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Best Gourmet Burger Blend

Best Gourmet Burger Blend

Have you ever asked yourself what the best gourmet burger blend is? I’ve decided to share this recipe with you because the burger blend is the most important step in making the best burgers. And the key is to protein to fat ratio.

If you master these recipes, you will dominate the grilling season.

Hello, Sarah here again with Cooking Frog Recipes. Today we are going to dig into the art of making perfect patties. A fantastic burger starts with an ideal patty. While a few of these burgers possess a particular blend of spices and meat, others have only superior ground beef. Here are a couple of tips for the very best gourmet burger recipes:

Use quality ground beef. Don’t overwork the meat; it can make it tough. Never push down on the patty as you are cooking it; you’ll press out all of the juices. Allow your burger to break before serving.

For us, the ideal burger is loaded with toppings, sauces, and cheese, but in the event the patty is not impeccable, your burger won’t ever live up to its juicy, beefy, and satisfying possible. But just enjoy the endless selection of toppings available to you; you will find wonderful variations worth researching in regard to selecting the cuts of beef to use when forming your patties. There is nothing wrong with throw, but adding other cuts can change the taste profile of your hamburger in ways you never imagined.

Best Gourmet Burger Blend

Best Gourmet Burger Blend

Ground Beef

When you have got the burger basics down and are looking to step your game up, home-ground steak is the thing to do. Grinding your own beef has many respects. Aside from providing you with bragging rights, home-ground beef comes with an indescribable freshness that will boost your burger’s succulence. The taste profiles of beef differ greatly from cut to cut; once you get in the world of grinding and blending different cuts, then you’ll experience a new level of hamburger making that will blow your and your buddy’s minds.

Creating your own blend
No matter what cuts you mix and match, the secret to successful beef-grinding alchemy is to concoct a grind having an overall protein-to-fat ratio of 80/20. Provided that you keep this ratio, you can stick with a simple one-cut mill or get really complex and craft a grind of two, three, four, or five cuts — it is totally your call.

Chuck Beef

(80/20 ratio When Old-school butchers refer to”hamburger,” they are speaking of chuck, and even more especially, chuck roll. It’s as timeless as you can get, producing a high-fat burger that comes across as succulent instead of greasy. Most ground beef — and burgers — come from the chuck, so this trimming is an obvious option. Hands down, it is our favorite cut to grind. At the supermarket, start looking for the slab labeled”chuck pot roast” Grind it up, and you’ll instantly think of hamburger.

Brisket Beef

(70/30) ratio: This blue-collar cut is popular for Its distinct flavor profile, and high-profile content will yield a rich hamburger with a humble meat-and-potatoes attitude.

Rib

(70/30) ratio: Another high-rise, this primal slab creates some real burger beauties. Our favorite rib cuts for grinding are beef rib, flanked, and ribeye cap.

Beef plate

(90/10) ratio: The plate is just beneath the ribs. This trimming yields both skirt and hanger steaks. All these are marginally tougher cuts with buttery yet tangy flavor profiles, much like the powerful malolactic notes of a tart, velvety red wine. The sophisticated flavors of this plate lend themselves nicely to a fancier burger night.

Short Loin

(85/15) ratio: Should you win the lottery (and suddenly feel as ridiculous), we advocate sourcing our favorite cut from the short loin: a dry-aged New York strip steak. Dry aging produces an umami-packed profile that comes from an enzymatic breakdown of muscle. You simply can not find that flavor anywhere else. — and provides that buzz that Chinese takeout supplies with no cancer scare.) So if you’ve got money to burn and you’re on the lookout for a hamburger to give you some postal zip code, then this cut is right for you.

Flank

(93/7) ratio: Remember when London broil was cheap? We do. Back then, chefs were performing tasty things with flank, such as marinating, charring, and shaving it thin that the meat just melted in your mouth. Though the price of this cut has skyrocketed in the last ten decades, it’s still a worthwhile element in your burger blend.

Sirloin

(85/15) ratio: The sirloin can be challenging. There’s sirloin, tenderloin, top sirloin, and bottom sirloin. Flavors and marbling vary greatly throughout the sirloin area, so for burger-grinding functions, we suggest sticking to the bottom. Bottom sirloin is nicely marbled and packed with two of our favorite cuts, both for grilling and grinding: flap meat, also called steak tips (and typically only available on the East Coast) and tri-tip (usually only available on the West Coast).

Round

(93/7) ratio: Cuts from the round are lean and cheap. They’re a fantastic go-to once you want to correct your protein-to-fat ratio. Typical cuts incorporate high round, bottom round, and eye around.

Shank

(96/4) ratio: The shank is cut out from either the hind shank or fore shank (or the calves and forearms). These muscles are continuously used, which gives them a beefy flavor but a tough consistency. Such tough cuts tend to be best for braising but remember, a couple of grinds of the toughest meats will yield a tender, melt-in-your-mouth feel. We love the shank because it adds a rich and gelatinous beefiness to our burgers. Be sure to pair this thin cut with fattier cuts.

Oxtail

(85/15) ratio: Sometimes, we simply love getting funky with our hamburger grinds. That’s where oxtail comes from. Like the shank, this cut is very tough and gelatinous. It’s also high in fat and low in price. Pick some tail up next time that you wish to try something a little different.

The Best Burger Patty Mixtures

Best Gourmet Burger Blend

What can you add into hamburger meat? Any ingredient that is wet enough to withstand some cook moment on high heat. Examples of items that won’t work: dry ingredients such as dried herbs or floor peanuts. These may top a burger, but they tend to form of incinerate, eliminate flavor or break up the patty when you attempt to cook them in with it. All these mix-ins may also use ground turkey and other beef substitutes, and can really enhance their flavors.

Ingredients for burger mixtures

gourmet burger

1. Eggs

Adding An egg to every pound of beef improves both the consistency and the flavor and keeps it from falling apart on the grill.

2. Bacon

Mix some chopped, uncooked bacon in along with your ground beef, create your patties and grill or stir it up together.

3. Onions

Instead of adding onions to the hamburger after it’s cooked, it is possible to chop them up and mix them into the patty. This also has the benefit of cooking the onions, which reduces any rankness. The best gourmet burgers are made with onions.

4. Breadcrumbs

Since your hamburger’s going to be served on a bun, bread wedges don’t add much to the flavor department. Their real function is to put a bit of dryness to your beef mixture, which can be excellent when it’s paired with a moist ingredient. It’s also helpful as an extender.

5. Worcestershire sauce

This Classic sauce adds a great tang to beef and increases the juiciness level, also. If you discover it is making your patties too wet to stick together well, throw in some bread crumbs.

6. Garlic

Chopped fresh garlic kneaded into steak patties is superb. You can also just sprinkle garlic powder with your meat to get a number of that garlic taste.

7. Cheese

Grate Some cheese — any kind you like — and then knead that into your own burger patties. The cheese and the beef compliment each other when they cook, and you know how great beef and cheese taste together.

8. A.1. Sauce

Naturally, A-1 sauce is great added to burger patties. Its texture is similar to that of barbecue sauce, and it becomes more subtle when used this way instead of being pumped across the patty later.

9. Peppers

Chop up bell or jalapeno peppers and Work them into your patties. Habaneros or poblanos will provide you a great deal of spice in each bite. Ortegas and bells could include a wonderful mild flavor.

10. Soy sauce

Do not waste your time with normal soy sauce. Eden Organic is traditionally brewed and obsolete, and that gives it a more full-bodied flavor than other brands. It’s wonderfully salty and mellow.

11. Peanut butter for burger mixture

Yes, I am serious! Think beef satay — peanut butter provides a salty-sweet flavor to the beef. This is great, topped with diced green onions and a piece of pineapple.

12. Carrots

Shred some carrots and combine those with your hamburger mix. This makes for an odd but fascinating sweet flavor that most folks either love or despise. If you’re a carrot enthusiast, give it a try.

13. Hot sauce for burger mixture

Tabasco and similar sauces (my favorite is Tapatio) add a delicious touch to hamburger patties.

14. Sun-dried tomatoes

Sun-dried tomatoes hold up nicely under cooking and provide your burgers a slightly sweet, acidic flavor.

15. Sour Cream

Mix in some sour cream to present your burgers with a richer taste with a slight tang.

16. Barbecue sauce

Whether you use a classic family recipe or store-bought, the skillet cooks wonderfully into hamburger and becomes merely another note in the total taste. It’s very different from incorporating barbecue sauce into the burger after it is cooked.

Also, if you have problems with allergies from eggs, or you don’t want to use breadcrumbs in your mixture, you can find a recipe for an egg-free burger here.

Make your own burger mixture.

It is possible to combine any of these ingredients together to make your own. Be free to experiment.

  • Soy sauce, garlic, peanut butter, and lime juice to get a nice Thai flavor.
  • Cilantro, chopped peppers, tomatoes, and onions.
  • Cheese, egg and bacon.
  • Mozzarella Cheese, marinara sauce, and pepperoni create pizza patties. Add Mushrooms and onions if you prefer, or saute and add these on as toppers.
Honey Glazed Salmon with Apple Cider

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Fried Apple Cider Glazed Donut Holes

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Fried Apple Cider Glazed Donut Holes will tickle your taste buds with the flavors of autumn. A touch of sweetness, as well as the hot spices of apple cider, create these donut holes that the ideal morning treat to consume with a cup of steaming Read More

Chocolate Chip Pumpkin Bread with Vegan Version

Chocolate Chip Pumpkin Bread with Vegan Version

This Chocolate Chip Pumpkin Bread Vegan Recipe is made with pumpkin puree and warm autumn spices, sprinkled with chocolate chips. Ideal for an healthy afternoon snack with coffee!

I must confess. I am a late bloomer when it comes to my passion.

My mother does not really like pumpkin, so the only experiences that I had with it before maturity was in the form of store-bought pumpkin pies in those crinkly aluminum tins topped with a dollop of partly frozen cool whip. Maybe not precisely the tastiest introduction!

Maybe it was destiny, but I discovered my love of baking round the same Time a particular coffee chain debuted pumpkin spice into the masses. The two things inevitably collided and a late love of pumpkin-baked goods was born!

Nowadays I often prefer sausage cakes, biscuits, and bread over Custardy pumpkin treats (a lot of poor childhood memories!) . This vegan chocolate chip pumpkin bread is a favorite.

Chocolate Chip Pumpkin Bread

This is a super moist loaf with a glowing orange, not-too-dense crumb. A sprinkle of mini chocolate chips in the batter contrasts the sweet, tender crumb of the bread and nearly bitter chocolate.

The barest hint of spice in the batter is amplified from the liberal This does double duty: it adds taste and it turns into a crackly crust as the bread bakes.

This bread keeps like a fantasy for at least a few days, wrapped well, on the countertop.

Chocolate Chip Pumpkin Bread

For the topping:

  • 3 tbsp sugar
  • 1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon

For the bread:

  • 2 cups (280 g) all-purpose flour
  • 2 1/4 tsp baking powder
  • 3/4 tsp kosher salt
  • 1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon
  • 1 cup (244 g) pumpkin purée
  • 1 1/4 cups (250 g ) granulated sugar
  • 2 big eggs or (2 tablespoon of chia seeds mixed with 6 tablespoons of water for vegan version)
  • 1/2 cup (125 ml) whole milk (2 percent is also fine)
  • 1/2 cup (113 g) unsalted butter, melted
  • 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
  • 1/2 cup miniature chocolate chips, plus additional for topping

How to Make Chocolate Chip Pumpkin Bread Vegan Recipe

  • Preheat the oven to 350°F. Butter or spray a 9-x-5-inch loaf pan.
  • Mix the topping: Whisk 3 tbsp of sugar and 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon together in a small bowl. Set aside
  • After that mix the dry ingredients: Combine the flour, baking powder, kosher salt, and cinnamon in a large mixing bowl.
  • Create the batter: At a separate medium-sized mixing bowl, whisk together the pumpkin, sugar, banana, almond milk, melted butter and vanilla extract until well blended. Pour the pumpkin mixture into the flour mixture and fold to mix. Fold in the mini chocolate chips.
  • Tap the pan a couple of times on the counter to remove air bubbles, then smooth the top with a spatula. Sprinkle with cinnamon sugar and much more miniature chocolate chips.
  • Bake the bread: Bake for 50 to 60 minutes, or until a Toothpick inserted in the middle of the bread comes out clean. Remove from the oven and cool in the pan on a cooling rack for 20 minutes before removing and cooling completely.
  • Wrap up any leftovers with plastic or foil wrap and store on the countertops. The bread will keep for many days.
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French Pear Almond Tart with Crust Recipe

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Korean Grilled Beef Short Ribs Recipe

Korean Grilled Beef Short Ribs Recipe

Are you looking for a heavenly BBQ beef short ribs recipe? Fire up your grill because these marinated Korean Grilled Beef Short Ribs will stimulate and wake your taste people!

Barbecue short ribs with Gochujang Marinade

For this specific marinade, I used a fermented Korean flavourer called Gochujang, that’s made of glutinous rice, red chili, fermented soybeans, and salt. It’s both sweet and spicy flavors and umami from fermented glutinous rice. With this flavourer, you can create delicious Kimchi fried rice and Kimchi Nabe (the Japanese version of Kimchi Jjigae).

I always marinate the short ribs overnight to have the meat deeply soaked with all the delicious flavors.

Where to get the ribs to make Korean Grilled Beef Short Ribs?

All Korean grocery stores in your place carry this type of cut meat. It’s referred to as Kalbi or Galbi. A number of the largest Korean grocery chains are H-Mart and T&T.

You can grill the beef short ribs over charcoal, or if you can’t, you can use a gas grill. In fact, a charcoal grill is often the best if you would like to get the heavenly smokiness. Once the marinaded beef is placed over the hot grill, sear them till they’re nicely charred. They cook really quickly; therefore, you don’t want to overcook them.

Before you dig into the plate, don’t forget to serve it with lots of crisp vegetables. A massive pile of fresh lettuce, spring onions, kimchi, pickled cucumbers, or daikon salad would go all right with this meal.

Sweet and juicy rib bones, tender, smoky meat with a fantastic sauce that will tenderize them. You would like to enjoy these Korean BBQ short ribs along with ones before we formally say adios to summer.

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Korean Grilled Beef Short Ribs

  • 2 lb of beef short ribs with bones

Marinade

  • ½ cup of soy sauce
  • ½ cup of mirin
  • 3 tablespoons of brown sugar
  • 2 tablespoons of gochujang, Korean hot pepper paste
  • 4 cloves of minced garlic
  • Tablespoon of roasted sesame oil
  • 1 green onion, chopped

How to make Korean Grilled Beef Short Ribs

  • Soak up the short ribs using cold water for half-hour to get rid of the blood, changing the water a number of times. Pat them dry with a paper towel.
  • Mix all the marinade ingredients into a medium-sized bowl and whisk.
  • Cover and refrigerate for a minimum of four hours, not less, and up to the whole night, turning the ribs 2-3 times while marinating.
  • Prepare charcoal and grill to 450°F, and Clean and gently oil the grill grate. For the ultimate flavor, I like to recommend using charcoal rather than the gas grill.
  • Once you’ve added the charcoal to the grill, pile the charcoal to one side. We will use each indirect and direct grilling for these Korean short ribs.
  • Remove the marinade’s short ribs and let any excess drip off. Discard the marinade
  • Grill the short ribs directly over charcoal till they’re nicely cooked, flipping once to sear the other side.
  • After searing is done, move short ribs to the grill surface indirectly over the charcoal to keep grilling (it should take about 5-6 minutes in total). Move to a serving plate and enjoy!!!

If you love these BBQ short ribs, please leave a comment below. Also, be sure to check these oven-baked baby back ribs. 

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