Sophie's Burger With Sweet Potatoes Fries

Ingredients

For the burger:

325 gr minced meat/ I allways use a mix of pork & 1 tablespoon of fresh parsley, Italian parsley or curled, you choose/ par

1/2 white onion, peeled & grated

25 gr breadcrumbs

1/2 teaspoon of fennel seeds, roasted in a dry pan for about 5 minutes on medium high heat. Set aside. Turn the heat

1 egg, beaten

Maldon sea salt

black pepper

For the sweet potato fries:

3 inches sweet potatoes, peeled & cut up into wedges or battons

some Maldon sea salt

4 tablespoons of soft fruity olive oil

1/2 teaspoon of Cayenne pepper

2 teaspoons of sweet smoked paprika/ I use Pimentón de la Vera. This is smoked dulce paprika.

To serve with:

2 inches purple sweet onions, peeled & cut up into rings, baked a pan with some baking marga

Tomato ketchup

Mayonaise

fresh young lettuce leaves

2 Kumato tomatos, washed, dried with kitchen paper & cut into slices

4 burger buns, cut open horizontally or 4 ciabatta's or 4 dinner rolls

Preparation

First make the meat mix. Take a foodprocessor & put the meat, the beaten egg, the chopped parsley, the breadcrumbs, the grated onion, the grinded fennel seeds & some Maldon sea salt & black pepper in it. Pulse or mix everything together until it resembles all mixed. Taste. Season extra according to taste.

With a spoon, make 4 burgers out of the mix. Flatten them with your hands.

Put them in clingfilm & place into the fridge. I leave them there for about 2 hours.

After 2 hours, take the meat out of the fridge. Take away the clingfilm.

Preheat the oven to 220 ° C.

Take a non stick baking dish, I used 2. Place the sweet potato wedges in it, in a single layer.

Add 2 tablespoons of olive oil to each baking dish, evenly divided.

Add half of the 1/2 teaspoon of Cayenne pepper to each baking dish. Evenly scattered.

Add 1 teaspoon of sweet paprika to each baking dish, evenly divided.

Add some Maldon sea salt to each baking dish.

Take your hands & mix everything together.

Place into the oven & bake until sticky & cooked trough. Sometimes this will take 20 minutes, depending on the size of the wedges or battons.

In the mean time, take a large non stick pan & heat up on high. Add baking margarine. When melted & sizzling, add your 4 burgers & bake until cooked trough. Bake on high heat the first 5 minutes on both sides & turn the heat down for the last 5 minutes.

If you want, you can bake your onion rings now because these will take only 10 minutes to bake. Keep warm.

To serve: take your dinner roll & smear the bottom with mayonaise. Put lettuce on it. Place your burger on it. Put ketchup on that. Add a slice of the tomato. Put some baked onion rings on that & add some extra lettuce leaves. Top with the other half of dinner roll, smeared with ketchup! Serve your sweet potato fries on the side! They are spicy & so good!!

Enjoy it twice!