Lime Burgers and my treat day

After dieting for 3 months I have lost 2 stone, 6% of my body fat! Not only am I treating myself to a nice new haircut soon, but I had a massive fried breakfast this morning. 2 bacon, 2 sausages, 2 hash browns, 2 eggs, 2 portions of beans, 2 slices of black pudding mushrooms, fried bread and 2 slice of toast. :P I ate it all!! plus some bacon from my boyfriends sandwich and a milkshake! This was the appetite that lead to me weighing 17 stone in the first place. And it was great to revisit it for the day.

Today was also my sisters birthday, so not only did I have the monster breakfast, but she asked me to make my lime burgers for dinner. The recipe for the burgers is the first recipe I have made over and over again, I first made them about 4 years ago, and my family loves them. Just to let you know, they are in NO way low fat! was a treat for the sister.

Lime Burgers

Ingredients

• Coriander seeds
• Cumin seeds
• 1000g Minced beef
• A lime
• 1 large egg
• Breadcrumbs
• Plain flour

SERVES 4

 Steps

1. Plonk the beef, as much coriander and cumin as you want and the egg in a large mixing bowl. Grate all the lime zest into the bowl, then squeeze all the juice into it too.
2. Now squeeze all the mixture together, with your bare hands. Yes it may be gross, but I love doing it!! :D now add a small handful of breadcrumbs in. Just enough to make the mixture less soggy.
3. Now sprinkle flour on a side and spread it around, so a large area is covered in flour. Now quarter your mixture, and roll into four balls. 
4. Now get a ball and half it, pat one half down on the side and work into a burger shape, covering in flour. Shake off the excess flour by throwing a burger from hand to hand a little bit. Continue with the other half.
5. Do this with the next three balls, and you should end up with 8 burgers.
6. Pour a generous amount of oil into a large saucepan, and heat up. The flour and the breadcrumbs in the burgers will give them an amazing crunchy outside when fried.
7. Fry all burgers until the outside is crunchy looking. You can just fry the burgers until they are cooked through, however today I fried the outside and then chucked them in the oven for 20 minutes on a gas mark 6.
8. When ready serve in a bap or with some home made chips. They would go amazing with the sweet potato chips I made in a previous blog.