October 6, 2009
Grilled BBQ Hamburgers Recipe-00-3361
We all love American Barbecue Hamburgers but did you know how easy it is to add a bit of smokiness to them? This gives them a real Texas Pit barbecued taste and makes for a wonderful meal.
Barbecued hamburgers are easy to make and they just plain taste awesome. Also, if you are trying to feed a large crowd for your next barbecue, then this is the recipe for you because it is simple and it is cheap.
Southern Smoked Barbecued Hamburgers
Ingredients:
Spices, Hamburger Meat, Wood Chips, Buns, Olive Oil, butter
Mix together the following spices. Feel free to omit those that you do not have or like, and substitute at will. My only recommendation is that you do not use onion powder because then the barbecued hamburgers will actually taste like meatloaf; better to add a fresh onion on top of the bbq burger once it is cooked. I will leave it up to you to decide on amounts.
Garlic
Salt
Pepper
Paprika
Steak Sauce
Mix the spices right into the meat with your hands prior to forming the burgers, leaving some for later. Use enough hamburger meat to satisfy you. I won't tell you that each burger should be a certain size and any recipe that does usually lies. I read one recipe recently that called for 1/2 lb of ground chuck (total) and claimed to feed 6 people. Come on! If you like paper thin bbq burgers, then use a rolling pin and you will assure yourself that you friends will never come back to your house. I recommend making the burgers about 1" thick at least. I like to make an almost perfectly round ball with the bbq hamburger meat and then to barely flatten it down. Remember that it will cook a lot of the fat off during grilling and searing will also flatten it further.
Fire up your gas grill or charcoal grill. If you are using a gas grill then put several handfuls of the woodchips in a foil pouch, leaving the top open. For larger amounts of food, make several pouches. If you are using a charcoal grill, do not put the wood chips on yet until you are ready for the burgers.
Once the grill is nice and hot, make sure the bbq grates are cleaned well. Brush each side of burgers with combo of olive oil, remaining spice mixture and melted butter. Use microwave to easily mix these.
Place your wood chips on your grill around the edges. Quickly place burgers all in the center, do not pat down yet because you will squish the meat into the grates. Let set up, close the lid and most of the air source to avoid flare ups. Your grill should start to smoke. If the fire begins to get too intense, cut the airflow down or off for a minute. You want it to smolder, to smoke, not to flame up at the bbq burgers.
Allow barbecuing burgers to cook and smoked for several minutes. Depending on how well you like them cooked, turn when you feel it appropriate. Do not keep turning and turning and playing with them. You should only turn a total of 3 times during the process. Make sure that when you do turn them, to look at the cooked side of each. The ones that are cooked darker should be turned and placed in the spot on the grill that the ones which were cooked lighter occupied. Put the lightly cooked ones in the hotter areas. This will even out your burgers. This is common sense but I thought that I should say nonetheless.
If you want to put barbecue sauce on the burgers (which I recommend) then here is where you do it: right after you flip the burgers for the first time. Just put the barbecue sauce onto the sides that are already cooked. After the second side is mostly cooked, flip the burgers once more, making sure the grates line up differently than they did the first searing of that side.
I also recommend throwing several thick slices of onion onto the top shelf of the grill or on a piece of foil at this point. You want any sort of crisscross pattern here. Place in different parts of grill, ones that are good and hot. The idea here is to glaze the barbecue sauce onto the meat. This will only take a couple of seconds so be careful.
Here is where you put your hamburger buns onto a piece of foil, face sides down. Put on grill for about a minute or so each side until they are toasted.
After buns are toasted, put the barbecued burgers into each bun, using a slice of American cheese on the bottom bun (to keep the grease from ruining the bun). Top with cooked onion, mustard, pickles. Serve warm.
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