We went camping for Memorial Day weekend.
After getting up at 4:45 for work these last few days, I was ready for sleeping in, eating good food, and taking naps.
The sound of doing absolutely nothing for a few days sounded good to me. So we packed up the trailer and headed for the mountains.
One dinner we had was excitingly different. It wasn’t just a burger. It was a Portuguese hamburger. Lean ground round mixed with linquica sausage and charbroiled over hot coals.
Serve with an orange-garlic aioli, pineapple slice, and topped with fresh cilantro.
Refreshingly different!
And for dessert, a S’more with homemade marshmallows!
Portuguese Pineapple Picando Burger
1/3 cup mayonnaise
2 tablespoons fresh orange juice
Pinch orange zest
1 tablespoon minced garlic
1/2 pound ground Portuguese chourico or linguica
1 1/2 pounds ground sirloin
Vegetable oil, for brushing grill rack
4 Portuguese sweet rolls
1 cup cilantro leaves
4 sliced rings fresh pineapple
To make the orange-garlic aioli:
In a small bowl, combine mayonnaise, orange juice, zest and garlic; Refrigerate to chill until ready to use.
For the burgers:
Prepare an open grill for moderate direct heat cooking. Mix ground sirloinr with linguica. mix through and form 4 patties.
When the fire is ready, brush the grill rack with oil.
Grill the patties until done to preference, turning once, 8 to 10 minutes medium rare.
During the last few minutes of cooking, place the rolls cut side down, on the outer edges of the grill until lightly toasted.
Spread the orange aioli on the cut sides of the rolls.
Top the bottom roll with a bed of cilantro leaves, then the burger.
Top each burger with a sliced ring of fresh pineapple, then the roll top.
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Those burgers sound great! What a nice way to to spend the Memorial Day Hoiday.
Great sounding burgers! And the smore’s look delish!
What a wonderful weekend Megan!! I would love to do this..and those burgers look and sound delicious!
Great burgers! So much more fun than ordinary burgers. And, to do it while camping – I’m so impressed!
I just drooled on myself. thanks.
MMMM now I want smores.
An exciting day! Those burgers look great!
Cheers,
Rosa
I really wanted to go camping for Memorial Day, but it rained ALL weekend here. I’m gonna remember these burgers, though – they sound fantastic!
Go to 3mealmuffin.com for the best Portuguese Muffins. These muffins have been used in many award winning burgers( most recently Brooklyn`s Best Burger 2009) and breakfast sandwiches( New York Mag)