I realized when I made my lamb burgers that lamb is far too expensive to make patties from for everyday, general consumption. Straight away I had another recipe in mind, but as with most things in my life, time ran away with me. Before I knew it, Dave turned 60 and we had a week long celebration. My sister left for Australia which meant another trip to Johannesburg and the burger patty competition winner was announced. A sirloin burger has won the competition but to me, that is just another meat patty. I kept my recipe in the back of my mind and had actually decided to make sausages out of the meat instead. But, I still have not got sausage casings, and the pork pieces came out of the freezer for eating. I have used pork as my basis for the patty, and as I am all about healthy eating at the moment, I made small patties, and we ate less than we would have if I had made larger ones.
Pork Patties
Ingredients
- 280 g pork
- 130 g bacon
- 15 mls olive oil
- 1 onion chopped
- Salt and freshly ground black pepper to season
- 5 mls dried ginger
- 5 mls dried sage
- 5 mls ground cumin
- 5 mls dried thyme
- 1 egg lightly beaten
- flour for dusting
- 15 g butter
Method
- using a meat grinder, grind the pork and the bacon
- heat the olive oil in a pan and sauté the onions
- set aside to cool
- add to the meat and season with salt and pepper
- add the spices and the egg
- combine all the ingredients well
- dust your hands with flour and shape the patties
- leave in the fridge for 30 minutes
- heat the butter in the pan you fried the onions in
- fry the patty on one side until sealed and flip once
- serve when cooked through
I like to use fresh spices when I cook. To get the best out of them the first thing I do is dry roast them. You need to do this in a non-stick pan. And over a low heat. As soon as tou can smell the spices they are ready.
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These sound delicious… though I must say I have a real soft spot for lamb burgers… especially with coriander, ginger, garlic and chilli… wonderful with hommus! Your pork ones are yummy with the good mixture of herbs.
I love the combination you use for the lamb burgers – I will have to give them a go!
Oh those pork patties look so darn good. They really remind me of the pork patties my grandmother used to make. I am definitely keeping this recipe.
thanks Kay – let me know when you make them!
You would definitely have got my vote for these patties Tandy – they look scrumptious!
🙂 Mandy
thanks Mandy 🙂
They look absolutely delicious – they should have been the winner.
thank you so much Roger 🙂
Lovely – we´re all about the pork here in Spain! Some lovely flavours going on there too….might have to whip up a batch of these soon. Hope you enjoyed the birthday celebrations for Dave´s 60th!
thanks Tanya – they are perfect for the heatwave we have had this week! Dave’s party was awesome, but long passed 🙂
These look very tasty! 🙂
thank you Jen 🙂
What excellent pork & bacon burgers! I love that there is bacon in this burger for extra flavour! I also love the dried herbs in here! sage goes so well with pork, I agree! 😉
thank you Sophie – in our house bacon is a condiment 🙂
Those look great. You’re so right, lamb is great but I can’t eat it too often or I’d blow the budget.
we live in an area where they farm lamb so I cannot understand why it is so expensive 🙂
I love meatballs of any kind and I love the flavouring you’ve added to these.
thanks so much noodle 🙂
Hi Tandy, I’ve been away for awhile and just catching up on your posts. I love the recipe for your pork patties and hope that you will enter them in a competition soon as I’m sure they are a winner.
thanks so much Karen, and hope you had a good time away 🙂
Ingredients here are very similar to one of my country pork sausage recipes…they look Awesomely moist…Yummm
those sausages sound good 🙂