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Grilling is one of my favorite things – being out in the open air with the smell of food wafting around you while your family hangs out in the shade nearby (I live with a couple of vampires). There are not many things better.
What is not great is when you have to pay high hamburger prices to make up delicious juicy burgers – not to mention red meat is not exactly the best for you. Our family usually doesn’t buy hamburger, and have actually lost a lot of our taste for it. (Don’t get me wrong, we still love a good burger!) So when I grill, I mix it up by grinding our own burger and making it out of a combination of pork and chicken.
These burgers come with all the hearty, juicy flavor you expect from a burger without making you feel heavy. Not to mention its much easier on the wallet.
We recently made this for a family party and everyone loved them! Even though they are half pound burgers(!), almost everyone had a second one.
We grind our own meat, but you can always get ground meat from the grocery store. We do highly recommend grinding your own meat. You can save a lot of money and the grind is always fresh!
Ingredients
- 4 pounds ground pork
- 2 pounds ground chicken dark meat
- 1/2 pound ground chicken skin
- 1/2 cup onion powder
- 1/4 cup garlic powder
- Salt to taste
- Minced garlic to taste
- Red pepper flakes to taste
Instructions
- In a large bowl, combine pork, chicken, and skin with your hands, blending well.
- Add seasonings and mix with hands.
- Using a burger press or your hand measure out desired size patties and make them as round as possible. This recipe yields 13 half pounders or 26 quarter pounders.
- Using your thumb, lightly depress center of eat patty.
- Allow patties to rest in the fridge from one hour to overnight.
- Heat grill to 425 degrees Fahrenheit.
- Grill patties until cooked through. Cooking times will vary by grill – ours took 6 minutes on each side. Check temperature to determine when they are done. The USDA recommends meat to be cooked to 165 degrees Fahrenheit.
- Remove from grill. Allow patties to rest for 5 minutes before serving.
- Top with your favorite burger toppings!