Spinach Burgers with Mushroom Sauce
Total time: 30 minutes
Don't let the greenish tinge to these burgers put you off. They fry up to a lovely dark, proper burger color, they taste fantastic and you get a healthy dose of vegetables almost without noticing!
Ingredients:
- 1 large onion, 175gr, 6.2oz
- 2 cloves garlic, 8gr, .28oz
- 2 ribs celery, 100gr, 3.5oz
- 4oz mushrooms, 125gr, 4.4oz
- 1 egg, 65gr, 2.3oz
- 12oz ground beef, 350gr, 12.3oz
- 3/4 cup cooked, chopped spinach - or frozen, thawed, & squeezed dry, 225gr, 8oz
- 3/4 cup red wine - 2 tbs for the patties, 2 tbs for the cornstarch and the rest for the sauce, 180gr, 6.3oz
- 1/2 cup bread crumbs, 54gr, 1.9oz
- 1 tsp thyme
- 1 cup beef broth, 225gr, 8oz
- 2 tbs tomato paste, 30gr, 1oz
- 1 1/2 tbs cornstarch (maizena), 12gr, .42oz
- 4 tsp olive oil, 18gr, .64oz
Instructions:
- Finely chop onions, celery, mushrooms and garlic.
- Heat 2 tsp oil in a large non-stick skillet over medium heat.
- Sauté half of onions, celery, garlic and mushroom about 5 minutes or until tender.
- Remove from heat and set aside.
- Thaw and squeeze all moisture out of spinach.
- In a large bowl lightly beat egg.
- Add bread crumbs, 2 tbs of red wine and thyme.
- Mix well, then add the beef, spinach and sautéed onion mixture. Mix well - hands work best, and form into 4 patties.
- Heat remaining 2 tsp of oil in same skillet, add patties and sauté about 5 minutes per side.
- Remove, put on oven-proof plate or platter and put in 250F (125C) oven to keep warm while you finish sauce.
- Add remaining onions, celery, garlic and mushrooms to skillet and sauté about 5 minutes or until tender.
- Add 1/2 cup red wine, beef stock and tomato paste to pan and bring to a boil.
- Dissolve cornstarch in remaining 2 tbs of red wine (or water) and add to sauce, stirring constantly until thickened.
- Remove patties from oven, pour some of the sauce over and serve with remaining sauce on the side.
---------------------------------------------------------
| Nutrition Information Recipe serves 2 Entire Recipe / per serving Calories: 1632 / 816 Total Carbohydrates: 98 / 49 Dietary Fiber: 16 / 8 Total Fat: 82 / 41 Saturated Fat: 26 / 13 Cholesterol: 513 / 256.5 Protein: 100 / 50 Calcium: 548 / 274 Sodium: 1574 / 787 |
General Technical Details and Disclaimer:
Measurements are actual measurements used for calculation. If there are no values the nutritional numbers were simply too small.
I try to be accurate, but I do not guarantee it. I use 'grams' as the unit of weight; with an approximate conversion to ounces.
My information comes from my own digital, computerized scale and the USDA Nutrient Data Library: http://ndb.nal.usda.gov/