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Dad's Hamburger Sandwich
When is a hamburger a sandwich? When it's stacked with a fried egg, pickled red onions, and special sauce, between two buttered pieces of white bread.
👥 4 Servings👤 Scott Clark📖 bonappetit
🥘 Ingredients
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🍳 Cookware
- ●saucepan
- ●bowl
- ●food processor
- ●whisk
- ●skillet
- ●pan
- ●spatula
📝 Preparation Steps
1
Pickled onion
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Cook garlic, bay leaf, peppercorns, and red pepper flakes in a dry small saucepan over medium-high heat, stirring often, until garlic is browned in spots and spices are lightly toasted and fragrant, about ⏱️ 2 minutes. Add vinegar and sugar and bring to a boil. Cook, stirring, until sugar is dissolved, about ⏱️ 1 minute. Remove from heat and let sit ⏱️ 10 minutes.
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Place red onion in an airtight container; strain pickling liquid over. Cover and chill at least ⏱️ 1 hour. Do ahead: Onion can be pickled 1 week ahead. Keep chilled.
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Sauce and assembly
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Whisk together egg yolk, mustard, Worcestershire sauce, vinegar, honey, 1 tsp. Diamond Crystal or ½ tsp. Morton kosher salt, and 1 tsp. pepper in a medium bowl. Slowly stream in oil, whisking until sauce is emulsified and lightened in color. (Alternatively, you can process in a food processor.) Set aside.
. Diamond Crystal or ½ tsp. Morton kosher salt, plus more1 tsp. (or more) plus 2 Tbsp. ghee or clarified butter2 tsp
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Heat 2 tsp. ghee in a large skillet over medium-high. Working in batches and adding more ghee between batches if needed, cook bread, undisturbed, until golden brown and crisp underneath, about ⏱️ 3 minutes. Transfer, toasted side down, to a wire rack. Reserve skillet.
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Portion beef into 4 loosely packed balls (4 oz. each); season generously with salt and pepper on all sides.
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Heat remaining 2 Tbsp. ghee in reserved skillet over medium-high. Place balls of meat in skillet and tilt skillet so ghee pools in pan; spoon melted ghee over meat to coat. Using a sturdy metal spatula, press down on meat to form ½"-thick patties. Cook until browned and crisp underneath, about ⏱️ 2 minutes. Flip patties; top patties with cheese. Partially cover skillet and cook until cheese is melted and patties are browned on other side and cooked to desired doneness, about ⏱️ 3 minutes. Transfer to a plate, leaving fat behind.
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Crack eggs into same skillet and cook, shaking pan occasionally to prevent eggs from sticking together, until whites are set but yolks are still runny, about ⏱️ 3 minutes.
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To build sandwiches, spread untoasted side of bread slices with reserved sauce. Arrange a few lettuce leaves over 4 slices, then top each with some drained pickled onion, a patty, and an egg. Close up sandwiches. Do ahead: Sauce can be made 3 days ahead. Cover and chill. *Raw egg is not recommended for infants, the elderly, pregnant women, people with weakened immune systems…or people who don’t like raw eggs.
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