Caprese Burgers
Food & Wine
We adore a Caprese Salad in the spring, its fresh Mediterranean flavours bringing total joy following a winter of hearty comfort food. But if you still hanker after a little of that last, why not combine the two? Grace Parisi’s excellent recipe is flavoursome in the extreme, folding basil and almond pesto into a beef patty, topping with mozzarella and tomatoes and drizzling with yet more of the fresh and zingy green stuff. Get the recipe.
Bacon And Blue Cheese Stuffed Burger
Olive Magazine
Bacon and blue cheese is an absolute winner of a combo for anyone who likes their food fiendishly salty (us). The trick here is to put the bacon and blue cheese in the burger, thus ensuring the patty itself is hugely tasty and its inevitable demolition is just a little less messy than it might otherwise be (you may still want to have a stack of napkins to hand: burgers are not, and nor should they ever be, dainty). Get the recipe.
Sweet Potato Burgers
BBC Good Food
Vegan burger recipes have every right to be just as delicious as their carnivorous counterparts and should never, ever be apologetic. We are not subscribers to the idea of attempting to recreate the meaty experience: vegetables are not meat and, frequently, the ingredients used to ape such flavour profiles are unidentifiable and, frankly, unappealing. Instead, it’s all about the glory of the flavours inherent in the veg, and this recipe from BBC Good Food delivers on that front with aplomb. Made using spiced sweet potato, along with chilly, lime, onion, ginger, basil and avocado, they also feature sunflower seeds and sweet potato crisps for some added crunch. Your meat-eschewing friends will thank you heartily for this seriously good feast. Get the recipe.
Tom Kerridge’s Fish Burgers With Herb Mayonnaise
Sainsbury’s
If you want to nod to a lighter treat but one that still packs in plenty of exceptional flavour, Tom Kerridge’s fish burgers are hard to beat – and they ought to be. As the chef-proprietor of the Hand & Flowers in Marlow, the only pub in the land to have been awarded two Michelin stars, he knows his British seasonal yet hearty fare like no other. These fish burgers combine skinless pollock, skinless mackerel and raw prawns with the toothsome bite of English mustard powder, garlic, capers and dill. Serve it up with a crunchy gem lettuce topped with optional pancetta, and with a homemade herby mayo. Saturday lunch perfection. Get the recipe.
Buttermilk Fried Chicken Burger
Olive Magazine
There is a dizzying wealth of chicken burger recipes online that could, just as easily, have made the cut. But, in the end, we’re not sure that you can beat this crisped buttermilk concoction for crunch, taste and sheer indulgence – especially when serve up in a pillowy soft brioche with chipotle mayo, guacamole, lettuce, gherkins and streaky bacon. You’d better be hungry, but if you are, this is heaven on a plate. Get the recipe.
Loaded Beefburger
Jamie Oliver
We round off our burger devouring proceedings with a return to the classics: the cheeseburger. And not just any old cheeseburger, but the ultimate one, courtesy of Jamie Oliver who rarely does things by halves. Here, he bulks out his beef patty with lentils and serves up the whole affair with lashings of oozy, melty cheese. Simple yet absolutely perfect. Get the recipe.
By Nancy Alsop
March 2024
