Burgers with Speck Alto Adige PGI
Juicy burger with South Tyrolean speck, crispy rösti and fruity cranberry sauce: a hearty recipe combining alpine flavours and modern cuisine.
Difficulty: Easy
Preparation time: 45 min
A recipe by: Patrick Rosenthal
Ingredients
Serves for
4
people
Ingredients for 4 burgers
- 4 burger buns
- 250 gram finely sliced Speck Alto Adige PGI
- 1 small radicchio lettuce
- 8 slices raclette cheese
- 4 leaves of lettuce
For the rösti potato fritters
- 6 floury potatoes, boiled
- 1 finely chopped onions
- Pepper to taste
- Salt to taste
- 2 egg whites
For the cranberry sauce
- 250 gram cranberries
- 100 gram cane sugar
- 0.5 Lemon juice
- 120 ml dry red wine
- 1 pinch cinnamon
- 1 pinch ginger
Burgers with Speck Alto Adige PGI
Preparation time 45 min
- To make the cranberry sauce, place the cranberries, sugar and lemon juice in a saucepan and simmer for 20 minutes, stirring constantly. Add the red wine and spices, simmer for another 10 minutes and leave to cool a little.
- Grate the potatoes finely, add the onions, salt, pepper and egg yolk and combine by hand. Chill in the fridge for 30 minutes.
- Shape the mixture into 4 röstis, and fry to a golden brown on both sides.
- Slice the burger buns and warm briefly in the oven.
- Fill the burger buns with cranberry sauce, lettuce, röstis, cheese and Speck Alto Adige PGI and serve.