Friday, May 25, 2012

A Great Day for Beef Recipes

          As Memorial Day weekend is approaching it is time to fire up that grill and enjoy some great summer cooking! The month of May is Beef Month! So what better way celebrate both Memorial Day and Beef Month by enjoying some delicious American beef.

          Every Friday I am going to post some recipes for everyone to enjoy. Today, I want to highlight the recipes from the 2011 Junior National Hereford Expo Grill-Off competition. It is an event that we hold at our annual JNHE where kids of all ages even the adults get to compete by showing us their cooking skills.

          The Certified Hereford Beef website has all of the recipes from the 2011 competition including the winning Junior Division Kansas Team's Kansas Kabobs great for grilling.

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If you are looking for a patriotic burger this weekend,
follow this Nebraska Beef Council recipe:

Star-Spangled Cheeseburgers

Total Recipe Time:  30 minutes
Makes 8 servings

 

Ingredients

2 pounds ground beef
1/4 cup regular or reduced-fat mayonnaise
1/4 cup honey mustard
8 slices American cheese
8 hamburger buns, split
Romaine lettuce
Tomato slices

 

Instructions

  1. Combine mayonnaise and mustard. Cut star shapes from cheese with cookie cutter.
  2. Lightly shape ground beef into eight 1/2-inch thick patties. Place patties on grid over medium, ash-covered coals. Grill, covered, 8 to 10 minutes (over medium heat on preheated gas grill, covered, 7 to 9 minutes) until instant-read thermometer inserted horizontally into center registers 160°F, turning occasionally. Season with salt and pepper after turning. About 1 minute before burgers are done, top with cheese stars.
  3. Serve in buns with sauce, lettuce and tomato.

Cook's  Tip

If using 95% lean ground beef, add 1/2 cup soft bread crumbs and 2 egg whites to ground beef. Continue as directed in step 2. Cook's Tip:  Cooking times are for fresh or thoroughly thawed ground beef. Color is not a reliable indicator of ground beef doneness.

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