Featuring homemade Bacon Jam and The Ultimate Burger Sauce
Using a fat 200g beef mince patty, this juicy Bacon Jam Cheeseburger has all the layers of flavour required to satisfy each category of taste – sweet, sour, salty, bitter, and umami.
Sweet – Homemade bacon jam, a ‘savoury & sweet marmalade’
Sour – Pickled cucumbers and their juice in a mustard-mayo sauce
Salty – Salty beef patty and bacon bits inside the jam
Bitter – Slightly Bitter crunch cos lettuce
Umami – The combination of tomato, cheddar cheese and bacon
What makes an amazing burger?
The right balance of textures, flavours and measurements. Too much meat and not enough sauce will end in a dry chewy unsatisfying burger. Too much sauce and all other ingredients will be smothered. In this Bacon Jam Cheese Burger recipe, a fatter 200g beef patty is used to balance out the richness of bacon jam and burger sauce. It’s important to use a firm brioche bun so it can hold the weight of ingredients together.
How to make bacon jam for burgers
Bacon jam is a bacon-based relish both salty and sweet consisting of bacon, caramelised onions, sugar and vinegar and a few other key ingredients (recipes vary according to its use). It has the thick sticky consistency of jam and a satisfying chewy texture from the crispy cooked bacon pieces inside. Click here for Flaevors Bacon Jam with BBQ Sauce recipe
The Ultimate Burger Sauce
This is a sauce to fall back on again and again. Its perfect balance of mayonnaise and mustard is offset by tangy pickled cucumbers and dashes of hot sauce which pairs so well with beef, chicken or pork burgers. Click here for The Ultimate Burger Sauce Recipe:
3-Cheese-Mix for the ultimate melt over your beef burger patty
Also known as ‘Tex-Mex’ cheese (used on tacos, nachos and burgers), a blend of white cheddar, red cheddar and mozzarella are used to give a mouth-watering ooze and colour to the cheese when melted. Other cheeses can be substituted such as Monterey Jack or Swiss Appenzeller for a stronger flavour.
Bacon Jam Cheeseburger Recipe
Note: You will need to prepare the bacon jam and ultimate burger sauce in advance. Recipe links are in the ingredients list below or above in the article descriptions.
Bacon Jam Cheeseburger
Ingredients
- 1 large firm brioche bun
- 200 g high quality beef mince
- 1/2 tsp onion powder
- 1/2 tsp garlic powder
- Sea salt flakes and cracked black pepper
- Dash of hot sauce
- 2 Cos lettuce leaves
- 1 -2 slices on tomato
- Handful of 3 Cheese mix – equal parts grated mozzarella white cheddar and red cheddar
- 2 heaped tbsp bacon jam with bbq sauce
- 2 tbsp of The Ultimate Burger Sauce
Instructions
- Combine minced beef, onion powder, garlic powder, hot sauce, salt and pepper and form into a burger patty slightly bigger than your bun
- Toast inside of brioche buns.
- Fry patty over medium-high heat in oil until nice and browned. Flip and fry another 30 seconds before placing cheese on top. Cover and allow the cheese to completely melt.
- On the bottom brioche bun, spread burger sauce. Top with lettuce, beef-cheese patty and tomato. Spread bacon jam over the inside of the top brioche bun and place on top of the burger.
Don’t want to cook your own bacon jam and would rather buy it pre-made? Popular bacon jam brands can be purchased online here
