Garlic Bread Smash Burgers

Garlic Bread Smash Burgers is a high-protein homemade fast food recipe ready in 40 min. It makes 2 servings, each 1210 kcal with 56 g protein. Intermediate level, 13 ingredients.

Recipe by @aflavorfulbite, adapted and measured by Cookpath.

  • 40 mintotal
  • Intermediatelevel
  • 1210kcal a serving
  • 56 gprotein
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Garlic Bread Smash Burgers

What is Garlic Bread Smash Burgers

Smashed beef patties with melted cheese and slow-cooked onion in buns with garlic parmesan butter and burger sauce.

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How to make Garlic Bread Smash Burgers

Tips from the cook

  • Keep the toasted garlic buns warm in a 100 °C oven while the patties cook.
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Garlic Bread Smash Burgers substitutions

Out of something, or cooking around an allergy. Each swap was checked against a source.

Onion2 options
  • Leek, white and light-green part 1:1 by volume

    Still an allium; raw dishes.

  • Fennel bulb, finely diced 1:1 by volume

    Sweet aniseed note; raw dishes.

Butter2 options
  • Vegan/dairy-free butter block 1:1 by weight

    Soft tub margarine fails in pastry and cheesecake base.

  • Olive oil use about 3/4 as much by volume

    Not for creaming or pastry; base goes oily.

Worcestershire sauce2 options
  • Soy sauce + splash of vinegar + pinch sugar 1 tsp: 1/2 tsp soy, 1/4 tsp vinegar

    No fish/tamarind depth.

    Still contains soy and gluten.

  • Gluten-free Worcestershire (vinegar-based) 1:1

    Contains anchovy.

    Still contains fish.

Buns2 options
  • Gluten-free vegan buns (Little Northern Bakehouse millet and chia buns) 1:1

    Softer, smaller than wheat buns; toast first.

  • Canyon Bakehouse gluten-free buns 1:1

    Check label for egg.

Parmesan2 options
  • Vegetarian hard Italian-style cheese (made with microbial rennet) 1:1 by weight

    Grana Padano is not suitable for egg-free (lysozyme from egg).

    Still contains dairy.

  • Nutritional yeast (fortified flakes) 1:1 by volume, less salty so add pinch of salt

    Does not melt; less sharp.

American cheese2 options
  • Dairy-free cheese slices (Chao, or Violife / Tofutti slices) 1:1

    Will not melt or stretch like real cheese; Chao and Tofutti are soy-based, check label.

    Still contains soy.

  • Violife dairy-free cheddar shreds 1:1

    Does not spread or melt like dairy cheese.

Burger sauce1 option
  • Burger sauce made with vegan mayo, tomato paste, pickle juice, yellow mustard and horseradish 1:1 of finished sauce

    Page warns horseradish sauce often contains eggs; the recipe includes mustard, so it only removes egg.

    Still contains mustard.

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