World's best hamburgers with fried green tomatoes and special sauce
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World's Best Hamburgers with Fried Green Tomatoes and Special Sauce
Prep Time
15 mins
Cook Time
25 mins
Total Time
40 mins
 

The world's best hamburgers are topped with fried green tomatoes, caramelized onions, cheese and special sauce. They are out of this world!

Servings: 4 Burgers
Author: On The Go Bites
Ingredients
Burger Ingredients
  • 1 1/2 Pounds Ground Beef preferably grass fed
  • 1 teaspoon Table salt
  • 1/2 teaspoon Black pepper
Fried Green Tomaotes
  • 1 Large Green Tomato cut into 1/4" slices
  • 1 Pinch Kosher salt
  • 1 Pinch Black pepper
  • 1/2 Cup All purpose flour
  • 2 Teaspoons Garlic powder
  • 2 Large Eggs
  • 2 Tablespoons Milk
  • 1 Cup Panko bread crumbs
  • 1 Pinch Cayenne pepper or to taste
Toppings
  • 4 Slices Gruyere cheese or swiss
  • 1 Cup Caramelized onions or sliced raw red or vidalia onion
  • 1/4 Cup Russian Dressing or make home made special sauce
  • 4 Whole Burger buns
Instructions
Make Hamburger Patties

  1. Mix ground beef with salt and pepper.  You don't want to overwork the meat so add a little salt and pepper and then pull the meat from the bottom of the bowl to the top and repeat with remaining seasonings.

    Form into 4" patties about 1/2" thick.  See post for some great tips to keep the burger patties the same thickness.

  2. Cook patties either over a medium grill flame or in a stove top skillet.  Depending on how thick you made the burgers and how well done you like them will determine how long it takes.  Assuming you made 1/4"-1/2" burger patties, it will take about 3-4 minutes on the first side and 2-3 minutes on the other side.  When you flip the burger add the cheese slice so that it melts.

Make Fried Green Tomatoes

  1. In three pie plates (or shallow bowls) fill with breading.  In the first plate mix the flour and garlic powder, in the next pie plate mix the eggs and milk and finally in the last pie plate mix the bread crumbs and cayenne pepper.

  2. Slice tomatoes into 1/4" thick slices, salt and pepper

  3. Now dip the tomato slices into the three pie plates, flour mix first, then egg mix, then bread crumb mix.

  4. Heat a cast iron pan, or heavy bottomed pan, with canola or peanut oil to 1" high.  When the oil is 350 degrees it's ready to fry. 

  5. Fry tomato slices for 3-4 minutes per side until golden brown.  If it's taking longer then you need to up the heat and vice versa.  If it's starting to brown then turn down the heat.  I always start with just one tomato until I feel the oil is at the right temperature.

Caramelized Onions

  1. Hopefully you have made the slow cooker caramelized onions and have frozen them, if not then either use sliced raw red onion or vidalia sweet onion.  Or slice the onion, add some oil to a pan over medium heat and let cook down while you fry the tomatoes.  Stirring occasionally.  You want to brown and caramelize the onions.

Assemble the World's Best Hamburgers

  1. You may want to quickly brown the buns on the grill or in a hot skillet.  If you choose to brown the buns it works well to slather a small amount of mayonnaise on the buns to create the perfect golden color.

  2. Add sauce to the top and bottom of the bun, add cooked burger patty with melted cheese.

  3. Top with fried green tomato, caramelized or raw onion.  If you are a pickle lover add some pickle chips or sliced pickle sandwich stackers.

    Top with Bun and enjoy!