Ingredients

  • vegetable oil
  • 1 onion, chopped
  • 1 bunch green onion, chopped
  • sambal oelek, to taste
  • 2 tablespoons soy sauce
  • 1 tablespoon tomato ketchup
  • 2 tablespoons brown sugar
  • 1 teaspoon allspice
  • 1 teaspoon ground coriander
  • 1 garlic clove, crushed
  • 500 g ground lean pork
  • 100 g sausage meat
  • freshly ground salt & pepper
  • 1 cup mayonnaise
  • 1 dash sweet chili sauce
  • 4 -8 hamburger buns, halved
  • sliced tomatoes
  • salad leaves
  • balsamic vinegar
  • extra virgin olive oil

Method

  • Heat a little vegetable oil in a large pan and gently saute onion until softish. Then remove onion and wipe out the pan.
  • To make the Jerk sauce, mix together green onions, 2 teaspoons sambel, soy, tomato ketchup, sugar, 1/4 cup vegetable oil, allspice, ground coriander and garlic in a food processor. Then taste for seasoning and transfer to a bowl.
  • Place pork mince and sausage meat in another bowl and mix together with some of the Jerk mixture, 1 teaspoons sambel and salt and pepper.
  • Form the mixture into patties and panfry in a thin layer of hot vegetable oil. Then drain on kitchen paper towels.
  • To make the mayonnaise, mix together mayonnaise, 2 heaped teaspoons sambel and sweet chilli sauce. Set aside.
  • Gently toss the salad leaves with balsamic and olive oil to taste.
  • To serve, smear the mayonnaise on the base of burger buns and top with sliced tomato, a mound of dressed lettuce, onions, 1 or 2 burgers patties, Jerk sauce and then the bun lids.