I was reading "The Genie in the Bottle: 67 All-New Commentaries on the Fascinating Chemistry of Everyday Life" by Dr. Joe Schwarcz. I came across a section called "Cheers for Sour Cherries". It talks about how putting cherries in burgers makes them healthier and taste better. I was intrigued, so I looked online for a recipe, and I found one on "an open cupboard". I wasn't convinced at how good it would be, so I tried to go about this scientifically. I would make a cherry burger, a raspberry burger, and a control - a normal burger. Unfortunately, at Trader Joe's, cherries aren't in season, but I read that cherry juice works as well so I bought some unfiltered cherry juice. The recipe and results are below.
Ground Beef
~1/2 cup Cherry Juice (for cherry burgers)
10 Raspberries (for raspberry burgers)
Pepper
Salt
Garlic Powder
Ground Nutmeg
Romaine Lettuce
Mustard (I used Trader Joe's Hot and Sweet Mustard)
The instructions are pretty easy. Put all the ingredients except the lettuce and mustard together. Mix them. Shape it into a patty, and pan fry it.
Burgers are better medium in my opinion, but medium-rare is good too. I cooked these to about medium. I made them smaller than I normally would since I was going to have to eat three of them.
I then topped them with the romaine and mustard. The results were very pleasing. The cherry burger turned out to be the best one. The tartness level was the best, and it was kind of sweet as well. It was also juiciest, but I would imagine that's due to me using juice instead of fruit. Overall, both were still better than the regular burger, which was still good though.
The Cherry Burger Wins!
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