Berliner (Doughnut) Burger

Ingredients

  • 1 no Berliner
  • 120 g beef patties
  • 40 g caramelized onions
  • 30 g sautéed mixed mushroom
  • 2 no sliced tomato
  • 3 no sliced gherkin
  • 60 g mozzarella cheese
  • 20 ml honey mustard dressing
  • 50 g mesclun salad

Beef Patties

Ingredients

  • 1000 g beef topside cube chilled
  • 2 no whole eggs
  • 20 ml lea & perrins sauce
  • 20 g salt
  • 10 g black pepper
  • 5 g paprika powder
  • 5 g oregano
  • 100 g old bread
  • 200 ml milk
  • 150 g sliced onions
  • 20 g garlic, peeled
  • ½ no lemon skin
  • 30 g Malaysian palm oil

Directions

  1. Soak bread in milk to soften.
  2. Heat up Malaysian palm oil. Sauté onions until golden brown then remove from the stove; add garlic, lemon skin and oregano, then let it chill.
  3. Squeeze the milk from the bread.
  4. Take beef, add onions and bread.
  5. Mince the beef with medium mince disc into a mixing bowl, add egg, sauce, and seasoning.
  6. Mix all ingredients well and portion out according to your need.
  7.  Portion each patties 120 gm, then grill or pan-fried using Malaysian palm oil.

Savory Berliner (Krapfen)

Ingredients

  • 250 ml lukewarm milk
  • 7 g sugar
  • 20 g (40 g) dried yeast (fresh yeast)
  • ¼ no of a vanilla bean
  • 120 g egg yolks
  • 20 ml rum
  • 3 g grated lemon skin
  • 500 g plain (all-purpose) flour
  • 8 g salt
  • 60 g margarine
  • Malaysian palm oil for frying

Directions

  1. Combine the milk, vanilla and the sugar in a medium bowl.
  2. Sprinkle over the yeast, then set aside for 5–6 minutes or until foamy.
  3. Stir in the grated lemon skin, rum and the egg yolks and mix until well combined.
  4. Combine the flour and salt in a large bowl. Use your fingertips to rub in the butter until the mixture resembles fine breadcrumbs.
  5. Add the milk mixture and use a wooden spatula to stir until coarse dough begins to form.
  6. Turn out onto a lightly floured work surface and knead for 5–6 minutes or until a smooth, soft, elastic dough forms.
  7. Place the dough in a lightly palm oiled bowl, turning to coat in the oil. Cover the bowl with plastic wrap and set aside in a warm place for 1 hour or until doubled in size, or use the prover
  8. Knock back the dough to expel the air, and then turn out onto a lightly floured work surface.
  9. Divide into 14 equal portions. Roll each portion into a ball, and then flatten slightly.
  10. Place on a lightly flour dusted surface and cover with a clean kitchen towel. Set aside for 40–50 minutes in room temperature or until I rises almost double in size.
  11. Heat Malaysian palm oil in a saucepan to 160°C. Take some of the dough, drop into the oil until it turns golden brown in 30–35 seconds.
  12. Fry the doughnuts, in batches, at one side for 4 min over after turn and repeat when golden brown. Use a slotted spoon to transfer onto paper towels to drain and to cool.

Honey Mustard Dressing

Ingredients

  • 300 g Malaysian red palm oil
  • 50 g whole grain mustard
  • 70  g honey
  • 35 g white vinegar
  • 5 g salt
  • 3 g white pepper powder

Directions

  1. In a hand blender, mix all ingredients  

Caramelized Onion

Ingredients

  • 30 g Malaysian palm oil
  • 20 g margarine
  • 1 no star anise
  • 1 no bay leaf
  • 350 g yellow onion sliced
  • 10 g brown sugar
  • 15 g white vinegar 

Directions

  1. Heat up Malaysian palm oil, add margarine, then sliced onions and sauté the onions.
  2. Add sugar, vinegar, star anise, and bay leaf.

Mix Mushroom

Ingredients

  • 1 no onion
  • 100 g oyster mushroom, sliced
  • 50 g brown button mushroom, sliced
  • 100 g white shimeji mushroom
  • 100 g maitake mushroom
  • 2 g salt
  • 1 g white pepper powder
  • 20 ml Malaysian palm oil
  • 1 unit Malaysian red palm oil
  • 1 spoonful soy sauce

Method

  1. Heat Malaysian palm oil. Sauté onions.
  2. Add mushrooms then black pepper. Season.
  3. Remove from heat. Drizzle with soy sauce and Malaysia red palm oil.

Assembling

  1. Cut Berliner in two and toast on a griller the inside.
  2. At the under piece place tomato, gherkin, onion, beef patty, mushroom and mozzarella cheese and gratin place top part of Berliner.
  3. Mix salad with the honey dressing and place on platter with the burger and service.