Spring burgers

Total: 2 hr 10 min. | Active: 50 min.

Ingredients

for 8 pieces

Bread rolls
300 g wholemeal spelt flour
¾ tsp salt
50 g walnut kernels, roughly chopped, toasted
½ cube yeast (approx. 20 g each), crumbled
2 tbsp walnut oil
2 dl milk
Herb sauce
2 tbsp coarse-grain mustard
180 g crème fraîche with herbs
½ tbsp herbal wine vinegar
½ tsp salt
a little  pepper
Burgers
70  day-old white bread, soaked, well pressed, finely chopped
450 g minced meat (beef)
1 tbsp coarse-grain mustard
egg
onion, finely chopped
1 tsp salt
a little  pepper
  clarified butter for frying
1 bunch radish, sliced
15 g onion sprouts

How it's done

Bread rolls

In a bowl, mix all the ingredients up to and including the yeast. Add the oil and milk, mix and knead into a soft, smooth dough. Cover and leave to rise at room temperature for approx. 1 hr. until doubled in size. On a lightly floured surface, roll out the dough to a thickness of approx. 2 cm. Using a cutter (approx. 6 cm in diameter) or glass, cut out 8 circles. Dust the bread rolls with a little flour, then make little indentations all around with a dough scraper. Transfer the rolls to a tray lined with baking paper.

Bake for approx. 20 mins. in the centre of an oven preheated to 200°C. Leave the bread rolls to cool on a cooling rack.

Herb sauce

Mix all the ingredients well.

Burgers

Combine the bread with all the other ingredients up to and including the pepper and knead well by hand. Divide the mixture into 8 portions and, with wet hands, shape into burgers. Heat the clarified butter in a non-stick frying pan, then reduce the heat. Fry the burgers for approx. 3 mins. on each side.

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