Burgers

I'm proud to say that my kids rarely, if ever, eat burgers. And when they do, then it is usually made by me. With good, quality, fat-free minced meat and all the herbs and spices needed to make the eating of this "fast food" a memorable experience. Oh, and a healthy one too.
So today I'm going to share my burger recipe with you as well as the way I chose to cook it.
First of all, buy good, lean, minced meat (easy enough to spot as it is almost totally red or uniform in colour - the pale/white specks in the mince is fat or other bits and pieces). I used 500g of mince which made a dozen burgers.
Place the mince in a bowl, add one small onion, finely diced, salt to taste, pepper, an egg, some ketchup and a dash of BBQ sauce. Finely chop a fist full of cilantro / coriander and add to the mixture. Lastly, take a few slices of bread and break it up as small as you can and add it to the mixture so that you get a drier mixture.
Break up into twelve (or whatever number you desire) equal pieces, shape into balls and then flatten out to about 2cm thick.
And the last secret that I did (today - I don't always do this) was to cook the burgers on the parrilla (barbecue/braai). In that way there is no fat involved.
The burgers were then served with any (all) of the following: lettuce, tomato, cilantro, basil.
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