Bacon cheddar truffle burger
Looking to impress your cookout guests with something a bit more impressive than your standard burger? Upgrade your Fourth with this recipe from Grady Wilder at The Tobacco Company.
Looking to impress your cookout guests with something a bit more impressive than your standard burger? Upgrade your Fourth with this recipe from Grady Wilder at The Tobacco Company.
Bacon cheddar truffle burger
Ingredients
- 3 tablespoons olive oil
- 2 tablespoons unsalted butter
- 1 lb chopped assorted mushrooms
- Fresh basil and fresh thyme
- 2 chopped shallots
- 2 lbs ground beef
- 3 oz chopped black truffles
- 12 strips of bacon
- Salt and pepper to taste
Burger toppings
- 4 slices Vermont white cheddar
- Watercress
- 4 slices of Hanover tomatoes
- 4 brioche buns
Procedure
Heat olive oil and butter until almost smoking.
Add the chopped mushrooms and shallots and cook until golden brown. Add fresh herbs and season to taste with salt and pepper.
Combine ground beef and black truffles, do not over mix. Add salt and pepper to taste. Form burger patties.
Cook bacon separately.
Grill burgers to desired temperature, toast brioche buns.
Assemble and top burgers with cheddar, bacon, watercress, sliced tomatoes and mushroom/shallot mixture.
Serves 4.
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A perfect exemple of a great idea with a bad ingredient.
The picture shows a Truffle from China. The taste is almost non existing (unless some chemical additives are used), the price can be lower or if not; its sold as truffle from France or Italy.
The black french truffles are the most flavorfull with the white Italians one, but also the most expensive (there is a reason why). But for the business, some white truffles are tinted in black to increase the price by 150 or more (up to 2000x)… Be aware
A french truffle is very dark in and out, the structure is made with nice round cells.
Don’t get ripped off, make sure about the origine of the ingredient
I once saw a TV program about how truffles are harvested. Pretty cool stuff! Pigs (sometimes dogs) are used to find the truffles since they are just under the earth’s surface. Can you imagine having a truffle sniffing pig or dog? That would be awesome.
This link is full of information about black truffles and reminds me of the information I heard on the TV program. http://www.francethisway.com/frenchrecipes/black-truffles.php
David Lebovtiz has some of the best pictures of truffle hunting and a truffle festival over on his blog:
http://www.davidlebovitz.com/archives/2010/02/truffle_hunting_in_france.html
The craziest one is of a largish selection of truffles that goes for several hundred Euro at the market! Insane!