Chef John’s Beef Sliders

Description

Sliders are a small version of a hamburger. A little trick helps you to get them all the same size so they cook evenly and look very professional. Do a couple of tests to determine your perfect degree of doneness and cook all the burgers the same amount of time.

Ingredients

  • 1 pound ground beef
  • 16 paper muffin liners
  • salt and ground black pepper to taste
  • 2 tablespoons mayonnaise
  • 1 tablespoon ketchup
  • 1 tablespoon Dijon mustard
  • 1 tablespoon sweet pickle relish
  • 8 slider-size burger buns, cut almost through horizontally
  • 8 slices roma (plum) tomato

Instructions

  1. Place ground beef onto a work surface; divide into 8 equal-size pieces using a knife or pastry cutter. Line 8 muffin cups with paper liners.
  2. Sprinkle bottoms of paper liners with salt and black pepper. Form each piece of burger into a rough ball and place into a muffin cup. Season tops with salt and pepper.
  3. Place a second paper liner on top of each piece of meat and gently press it down to shape the mini burger into a round
  4. flat shape. Pull off the paper tops and remove burgers from the muffin cups; remove bottom paper liners from burgers.
  5. Heat a large nonstick skillet over medium-high heat. Cook burgers in the hot skillet until they have a browned crust and are slightly pink in the middle
  6. about 3 minutes per side. Flip burgers and cook 3 minutes on other side. Remove burgers to a plate to rest for 2 minutes.
  7. Mix mayonnaise
  8. ketchup
  9. mustard
  10. and pickle relish in a bowl; spoon a dollop onto each bun. Place burgers onto buns
  11. season with more black pepper
  12. and top with a tomato slice. Close buns and serve.

Prep Time: 15 mins

Cook Time: 10 mins

Total Time: 30 mins

Servings: 8

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