Homemade Hamburger Patties Recipes???

[Frangipani]

Planning on having hamburgers for dinner, but as I forgot to get ready made burgers (like I usually do) figured I could give it a go of making them myself (they'll hopefully taste a lot nicer anyway), but just realised I have no idea what else goes with the mince. I also have a packet of the french onion soup mix too, which I believe make them really tasty, but from the recipes I've found, they seem to be a loose meat burger -I want a pattie that sticks together (as we will BBQ them).

Any suggestions?

Thank you.

[Frangipani]

[Floweryfields]

Well, I don't know what the 'right' way is of making them, but this is what I put in:

Egg - for binding
Bread crumbs - enough to get right consistency - not too wet
I would probably use the soup mix - dependent on how much mince you might only want half as it will be too salty
Onion finely diced
couple tablespoons tomato sauce

I also put finely grated carrot and zucchini in mine but you don't have too.

[Frangipani]

thanks Ausgirl.

I ended up going with my instincts just then making them up (as almost ready to BBQ now) - and that's pretty much what I did - minus the carrot and zucchini, but great idea though - will definitely look at adding those next time - always trying to find ways to add extra vegies to things (not so much for DS, but for DH ) But whoops, I ended up putting all the french onion soup mix in, it is a salt reduced one, so hopefully it won't be too salty - didn't even occur to me bout that

If there is any other suggestions, still happy to hear them as we tend to have a lot of hamburgers over summer (cooked on the BBQ) - so variations would come in handy.

[Daydream Believer]

You can buy a hamburger press to squish them into the right shape, Im assuming (I dont have one yet) that the pressure out on the would result in a more formed burger, rather than a loose burger IYKWIM?
I think tupperware have them

[Frangipani]

Thanks Daydream_Believer - I know what you mean - Mum used to have one...hmm - wonder if she's still got it, if so, maybe not for long

[HotI]

DH squashes the mix into an egg ring (placed on grease proof paper) so he gets nice round even size burgers. If he makes too many, he will freeze them with layer of grease proof paper in between.

You could also put curry powdder or sweet chilli sauce if looking for different flavours.