The Perfect Burger

Ingredients

• 3 pounds ground chuck, preferably chicken steak or blade steak, not more than 20 percent fat
• 6 four-inch Pepperidge Farm Farmhouse white rolls or Amy’s Bread rolls
• 2 large sweet onions
• 2 ripe tomatoes
• 6 leaves of Boston or iceberg lettuce

• Nutritional Information

  • Nutritional analysis per serving (6 servings)

    465 calories; 12 grams fat; 4 grams saturated fat; 0 grams trans fat; 6 grams monounsaturated fat; 1 gram polyunsaturated fat; 33 grams carbohydrates; 2 grams dietary fiber; 11 grams sugars; 54 grams protein; 142 milligrams cholesterol; 403 milligrams sodium

  Note: Nutrient information is not available for all ingredients. Amount is based on available data.
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6 servings

Preparation

1. Heat a seasoned cast-iron grill pan over a high flame for five minutes. Meanwhile, place the meat in a bowl and knead lightly. (Disregard experts who warn that kneading will produce a dry burger. Kneading will not have this effect on chuck cooked rare or medium rare, but it will keep the meat from falling apart. Leaner cuts will be dry whether or not you knead them.) Divide the meat into six portions and shape burgers. Do not season.
2. Add burgers three at a time to pan leaving space between them. After four minutes lift burgers from pan with pair of tongs and turn by 90 degrees. After two minutes turn burgers over. The grill marks will form an attractive tick-tac-toe matrix. Meanwhile, toast rolls. In about five minutes meat will be medium-medium rare. Add sweet onion, tomato and lettuce on roll’s bottom half. Add burger. Top with other roll half. Serve with ketchup.

• You may also broil burgers under a medium flame. The timing will be the same but you will sacrifice grill marks.

25 minutes