How to Make Hart's Lamb Burger | Cook Like a Pro

Hi, I'm Nick Perkins.

I am the chef and owner of Hart's.

We are a little 30-seat Mediterranean restaurant

in Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn.

Today, we are going to make a lamb burger.

It is the one thing that does not leave our menu.

Any neighborhood restaurant needs to have something

that people can keep coming back for.

So, lamb burger is super simple to make.

You need to have a good meat, obviously.

Getting grass-fed lamb is, in my opinion,

the most important thing of this whole process.

Get a good bun that's gonna hold up.

I think you'll find this is a very juicy burger.

The first step is to make this slaw.

Today, we're gonna do it with onion, celery...

They're gonna be awesome.

Fennel, wild fennel stalks in here, as well.

We're gonna get these in a bowl.

We use all sea salt here.

Trapani Sea Salt.

Looking to get lots of lemon.

This is wild fennel or just, kind of, fennel fronds.

We use this stuff as an herb in all our mixes.

And then mint.

Sometimes we put parsley.

Whatever you've got, definitely use it in there.

So, just kind of mix all this stuff together.

Knead it up a little bit.

Toast your bun in any way you see fit.

Season the lamb with sea salt.

Get the lamb in.

We don't really move it around too much.

We let both sides get mostly crisped up.

Then we baste it a little bit.

Take it out.

Let it rest for a little while.

Build the rest of your burger.

So, we make a caper aioli.

You can do this with mayo or egg and oil and lemon.

You can just chop capers and mix them in.

You're good to go.

So, as far as assembling this goes,

toasted your bread.

A little bit of aioli on each side.

Burger on here.

Salad, give kind of a toss.

Good amount of that on there.

So, we actually put anchovies on our burger.

Lamb and anchovy is a pretty classic combination.

People are definitely apprehensive at first.

But it's pretty easy to convert folks.

It goes really well.

We always serve the burger with salad instead of fries.

It's always the same.

A little olive oil, a little lemon, salt, pepper.

I think it's important to give a lot of salad.

Yeah, that's it.

Lamb burger with salad with anchovies.

Or salad with a lamb burger.