Barbara's Big Juicy Burgers

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Prep Time
20 Mins
Cook Time
18 Mins
Yield
Makes 10 servings
By Barbara Manning, Birmingham, Alabama
August 2004
RECIPE BY Southern Living

Shape into 12 patties for smaller, quarter-pound burgers.

Ingredients

  • 2 (6-ounce) cans 100% vegetable juice
  • 3 white sandwich bread slices, torn into pieces
  • 3 pounds ground chuck or ground round
  • 1 large egg
  • 1 1/2 teaspoons salt
  • 1 teaspoon pepper
  • 10 hamburger buns
  • Vegetable cooking spray
  • Garnish: dill pickle spears

How to Make It

Step 1

Microwave vegetable juice in glass bowl at HIGH 1 minute; add sandwich bread pieces, and let cool. Combine with hands.

Step 2

Combine vegetable juice mixture, ground chuck, and next 3 ingredients. Shape into 10 patties.

Step 3

Grill patties, covered with grill lid, over medium-high heat (350° to 400°) 6 to 8 minutes on each side or until beef is no longer pink.

Step 4

Spray cut sides of buns with cooking spray; place buns, cut sides down, on grill rack, and grill 1 to 2 minutes or until lightly browned. Serve hamburgers on buns. Garnish, if desired.

Step 5

Note: For testing purposes only, we used V-8 for vegetable juice.

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Ratings & Reviews

rfzelaya's Review

rfzelaya
July 30, 2010
To my family & friends,I have become the Hambuger King with this recipe. I tweeked it a little by adding bacon bits and they are fantabulous!!!!!

linda94's Review

linda94
August 06, 2009
I don't know what I did wrong, but this recipe turned out to be a big juicy mess for me. I scraped the meat off of the grill and ended up making spaghetti sauce with it. The flavor was good, but somehow I ended up with my burgers not holding together.