Veal Burgers

So with veal burgers first off, I prefer not to use veal and dislike veal and do not support veal or how its made out of baby cows. Those are baby cows… however I also dislike wasting food and my beloved does like it so we have a friend who sometimes gives us a pound of it in a package…

So I came up with this recipe for veal burgers. As I view it, the animal was slain and I am not buying it and if we don’t use it, it was going to go bad anyway which is just disrespectful to the sacrifice of the creature itself. To let the meat rot or otherwise go bad would just be worse than slaughtering a baby cow.  Then you’re just piling it up.  I dislike wasting and I can cook with just about anything so…

Anyway, for this you will need.

A cup and a half of bread crumbs,

Half a cup chopped onions

Three eggs medium

Two tablespoons balsamic vinegar

A fourth a cup garlic powder

Sprinkling of meat seasoning blend

Now, first off while your making the veal patties keep in mind. They don’t reduce like regular ground beef because they don’t have as much fat. This also means they need more help not to stick.

For this I used vegetable oil however olive and sunflower oil are also really good with this recipe.

For me they are pan fried, with just enough oil to keep them from sticking in the pan. They can however be grilled in which case I recommend going light on the bbq sauce if you use it.

This will be a lil more squishy than a regular ground beef. Regular ground beef has a different consistency when mixed. As my grandmother had me hand mixing meat loafs and making hamburger patties for the grill im gonna lay it to you straight. They pack easier and veal is much more malleable.

You have to keep this in mind while using veal.

Veal has a delicate under tone to its taste. Its like normal beef but not quite like it at the same time. This is why I added the vinegar. This brings out the natural flavors in meat and compliments this particular one well.  What can I say, if I don’t do this right there is no point in me respecting the animal who died to make this lil pound of ground veal.

Veal is considered a delicacy to some people because of the qualities it has. Traditionally they originally only made veal from animals who were born with some sort of leg crippling defect. Nursed them for awhile and let them get some meat on their bones and then killed them because their lives would be a cruel fate and they would die a horrible death if they were not killed. I do not like nor do I support neither how modern veal is done nor how the animals are treated.  Veal  got its start as mercy killing and as the belief of waste of any parts(from bone to teeth to meat and even the brain and organs) was a horrible disrespect it was done reverently and with much respect that the animal be partaken of as nourishment.  Some hunters today still abide these rules though I hear its very few which is saddening, when it comes to animals. Pick off the weak and let the rest breed and waste nothing.

In this case I’m also gonna let you know, veal cooks a lil faster than regular ground beef.

When you get the light to mid brown outside of it after cooking it on mid heat, on both sides, its ready.

Dress and place on bun and you have a veal burger.

cheese is a good topping on it just like a regular beef burger and when you add a vegetable to the side you have a meal, though in my family we never just had the burger and the veggies. lol I leave that part up to you. it goes well enough with just about anything. I may not like how the farms do it but i believe when you do something you should do it right and meat, like any ingredient should be treated with the utmost respect. :)

Be blessed

-Luna