Posted by: cooking4kim | 20 September, 2007

Low-sodium hamburger patties

For my first recipe, I will be doing a really simple, low-sodium, hamburger.

Like a lot of things you can always add extra ingredients, depending on your taste, but Kim loves these.

Ingredients:

  • 100g lean beef mince, strangely enough we have found that the local Lenards (famous for it’s chicken) produces the best lean beef mince we can find.
  • Dried coriander
  • Dried Italian herbs
  • Garlic, we use dried granules as it’s very convenient and adds enough taste
  • Chili flakes, Kim loves spicy food
  • Pepper, told you she likes spicy food
  • fresh, finely chopped onion
  • teaspoon of no-salt tomato sauce

 
Directions:

  1. Put the mince into some sort of mixing bowl
  2. Add all of the dry ingredients and the onion, mix thoroughly
  3. Add the tomato sauce to bind the mixture
  4. Divide into two, even patties
  5. Spray a non-stick frying pan with some non-stick spray
  6. Cook until there is no pink in the very middle of the patty
  7. Serve with your choice of salad vegetables and bread. Kim has hers on some freshly baked buns, topped with lettuce and beetroot

Responses

  1. Great recipe but watch out for the bread. Low salt bread is the underpinning of a low sodium diet and without it reducing salt enough to have a significant health effect is made much more difficult. Now I am off to check out your mustard.
    All the best. Peter

  2. Very true, bread is the one thing that we really have to watch due to its salt content.

    Good luck with the mustard.

  3. What is the sodium content of one 4 oz burger?

    Thanks.

  4. To be honest I’m not sure…I wish I had some way of working it out, but I don’t have one at the moment.

    I guess the idea of this recipe was to show that you didn’t have to add any salt to make it tasty

  5. Hey cooking4kim, if you guys are making your own bread salt free then there’s no worries, right? :)

    Does it all stick together okay with no breadcrumbs?

  6. yeah, if you are making your own salt-free bread then it would be even better.

    It tends to stick together pretty well due to the herbs, they tend to soak up a lot of moisture.


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