Click Michelle's Food

Mr Click loves burgers, but I admit they are not my favorite thing, at least not the usual “make a hockey puck out of meat and cook it” way. I’ve been trying various recipes to make them more interesting. So as our last dinner-for-only-two for a while, tonight was Greek Burgers served with Greek Orzo Salad.

Both were excellent, and will probably be added to the regular rotation.

burger mix

Burgers:

• 1 lb. lean ground beef
• 2 Tbsp. finely chopped red onion
• 1/2 tsp. dried oregano leaves
• 1/4 cup crumbled feta cheese
• 1/2 tsp. salt
• 1/8 tsp. white pepper
• 2 garlic cloves, minced

mint-dill yogurt sauce

Sauce:

• 1 cup plain yogurt
• 1 Tbsp. chopped fresh dill weed
• 1 Tbsp. chopped fresh mint leaves
• salt and pepper to taste

Changes I made:
I used fresh oregano from my herb garden (twice as much as the amount called for dried)
I halved the amount of yogurt called for, and used Fage Greek yogurt.

The Orzo Salad, I made a few changes to. Here it is the way I made it (original is linked above):

orzo salad

• 1 1/2 cups uncooked orzo pasta
• 1/2 jar of Trader Joe’s artichoke antipasto
• 1 tomato, seeded and chopped
• 1 cucumber, seeded and chopped
• 2 tablespoons red onion, chopped
• 1 cup crumbled feta cheese
• 1/4 cup chopped greek olives
• 1/4 cup chopped fresh parsley
• 1 tablespoon fresh basil
• 2 tablespoon Meyer lemon olive oil
• 1 teaspoon fresh oregano
• salt and pepper to taste

A note about the red onion I used… I bought some Bottle-Neck Onions from the farmer’s market yesterday. They are fantastic! They are little red onions that yield about 1/4 cup when you chop up a whole one. No issues with a leftover half of a huge red onion stinking up the fridge. I’m not sure if they are just early onions or an old-timey variety, but I’m sold. I’ll buy them till they are gone from the market.

I served these topped with sliced tomatoes and the yogurt sauce, on pan-toasted Trader Joe’s brioche hamburger buns, with the orzo salad on the side.

greek burger plate

We only cooked up two of the burgers; the other two are in the freezer. They will be someone’s tasty lunch!

Possible changes I’d make next time might be to use half ground beef and half ground lamb, or to add a little fresh dill to the burger mix. They really were quite good the way I made them.

I mixed the leftover yogurt sauce in to the orzo salad. The flavors didn’t change appreciably, at least right away. I’ll be taking a dish of it to work tomorrow for my own lunchy goodness.