Blackened burger with grilled onion salad and yellow pico de gallo

Name: Blackened burger with grilled onion salad and yellow pico de gallo
Yield: Serve 4
Cuisine: American
Ingredients: salt and freshly ground black pepper; salt and freshly ground black pepper; 1 garlic clove, crushed; 150 g smoked sausage of your choice, such as chorizo, cut into 0.5cm dice; 150 g smoked sausage of your choice, such as chorizo, cut into 0.5cm dice; 600 g well trimmed, coarsely minced beef; ¼ tsp dried thyme; ¼ tsp dried oregano; ¼ tsp ground cumin; ⅛ tsp chilli powder; vegetable or sunflower oil for cooking; vegetable or sunflower oil for cooking; 1 onion

Preparation info

Serve
4

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Burgers

By Paul Gayler

Published 2014

About

Traditional Cajun style burgers from America’s Deep South are always preferred well dressed and well seasoned; here they are unusually served on a warm French baguette, which I think is delicious. Although not normally served with a pico de gallo, I love this Mexican-style relish, it is cool and offsets the spicy burger beautifully.

Ingredients

vegetable or sunflower oil for cooking
1 onion
1 garlic clove, crushed

Americas
United States
Mexico
Burger
Central America

Method

Heat a small frying pan, and add a thin film of the oil to the pan; add the onion, garlic and sausage and fry until softened and lightly golden. Transfer to a large bowl, and allow to cool.
Add the minced beef, dried herbs and spices and mix together thoroughly; season with salt and pepper and chill for 1 hour.
Divide into 4 evenly sized burgers, and