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Burgers stifado. This is a favorite pork and beef burger recipe. A mixture of ground beef and pork makes for fabulous burgers on the grill. This simple and easy recipe calls for parsley and onion and, as usual, these burgers are served with wedges of lemon for those who want the authentic Greek taste.

We, from Epirus, didn't even know this tasty dish for burgers stifado (Greek traditional stew with baby shallot onions) existed!! We, from Epirus, didn't even know this tasty dish for burgers stifado (Greek traditional stew with baby shallot onions) existed!! This sauce adds even more moisture to the Greek beef burgers. You can have Burgers stifado using 9 ingredients and 10 steps. Here is how you achieve it.

Ingredients of Burgers stifado

1. It's 1 kg of baby shallot onions.
2. It's 750 g of ground beef.
3. Prepare 2 of medium-sized onions.
4. You need 1 of large clove of garlic.
5. It's 1 of egg.
6. It's 2 tbsp of cumin powder.
7. Prepare of salt.
8. It's of pepper.
9. You need of breadcrumbs optionally.

Greek Beef Stew - Stifado is a Greek stew dish. It's the Greek version of comfort food — warm, filling and satisfying. This dish reminds of school holidays visiting friends in Athens. Place the beef in a non-metallic bowl with all the marinade ingredients.

Burgers stifado instructions

1. Grate the onion using the coarse side of the grater. Grate the garlic finely. Place the ground meat in a bowl together with the grated onion, the garlic, the egg, the cumin powder and the salt and pepper..
2. Knead well to combine. Place the bowl covered in the fridge for about an hour so that it firms..
3. Remove it from the fridge and take handfuls of the mixture to form small patties..
4. Coat them in flour and heat some oil in a large frying pan..
5. Fry the burgers over moderate heat until they are golden brown and their liquids evaporate..
6. Place them in a teraccota casserole dish, at the bottom..
7. Place the baby shallot onions in the same frying pan that you have used to fry the burgers in. Allow them to cook for about 5-7 minutes stirring from time to time until they are tender. If you have a lid for the frying pan, even better, they will cook slowly..
8. Empty the contents of the frying pan (together with the oil) over the burgers in the terracotta casserole dish. Shake the pot to distribute evenly..
9. Bake in a preheated oven at 150-180°C on the second rack from the bottom for 1 hour (depending on the oven)..
10. Bon appétit.

Cover and leave overnight in the fridge. Remove the meat from the bowl, reserving the marinade for later. A traditional Greek meat stew, stifado can be made with pork or rabbit as well as beef. It always contains loads of little onions, cooked whole, and can be served with some short macaroni-style pasta if you fancy. Recipe extracted from The Hairy Bikers' Meat Feast by Si King & Dave Myers.