Jamie’s Favorite Burger

📝 Ingredients

• 1 large onion (sliced into 1/2 inch thick rounds )
• Extra virgin olive oil
• 28- ounces ground chuck (at least 20% fat content)
• Coarse sea salt or Kosher salt
• Freshly cracked black pepper
• 8 slices pastrami
• 4 hamburger buns (8 large slices of challah or large lettuce leaves for lettuce wraps (if Jamie is coming over) )
• Garnishes: avocado slices (sliced tomatoes, ketchup, mustard, mayo, pickles )

👨‍🍳 Instructions

1. 1Preheat grill to medium.
2. 2Brush onion slices with evoo and place on heated grill and cook until dark brown on both sides. Add pastrami slices to grill to crisp up, be sure to turn often to prevent burning.
3. 3Divide meat into 4 even amounts. Loosely form meat into hamburger patties about 4 ½ inches wide and 1 ½ inches thick. Make an indentation with your thumb in the center of each patty (this will keep the patty from puffing up as the meat gets hot and creates steam). Season patties with evoo, salt and pepper.
4. 4Grill burgers, on each side about 5-7 minutes for medium-rare. While burgers are grill, brush buns or challah with evoo and lightly toast buns on grill.
5. 5Place a burger on each bun half, or lettuce leaf, top with pastrami, a pile of onions, avocado slices, tomato slice and ketchup and mustard.
6. 6Got Rain? No prob!
7. 7Preheat broiler to low.
8. 8Broil onion slices for about 3-5 minutes, stirring frequently until browned. Add pastrami slices and continue cooking for another 5 minutes.
9. 9Broil patties on each side for 3 minutes for medium rare.