Restaurant Recipes

Balboa Cafe Lamb Burger on Pumpkin Brioche

This recipe was the winner of a gold medal at the 2002 Lake Tahoe Autumn Food & Wine festival. “Slider” comes from a term used to describe burgers from the Midwest-based White Castle restaurant chain.

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Ingredients

Pumpkin Brioche

  • 2 ounces fresh yeast
  • 1 cup warm whole milk
  • 1/4 cup honey
  • 10 ounces bread flour
  • 4 ounces granulated sugar
  • 4 teaspoons salt
  • 8 eggs
  • 1 pound cake flour
  • 1 pound bread flour
  • 8 ounces unsalted butter, room temperature
  • 2 cups pumpkin puree
  • 1/4 combined fresh savory, thyme, parsley and chives

Lamb Sliders

  • 2 pounds lean ground lamb
  • 6 ounces ground pork fat back
  • 2 tablespoons thyme leaves
  • Salt and pepper to taste

Sweet Onion Marmalade

  • 4 large red onions, diced small
  • 1/4 cup butter
  • 1 jalapeno or Serrano pepper, seeded and minced
  • 2 tablespoons granulated sugar
  • 4 cups tawny port
  • 1/4 cup port wine vinegar
  • 1 cup veal stock or other meat stock or broth

Instructions

Pumpkin Brioche

  1. Combine yeast, milk, honey and flour; cover and let rest 30 minutes. Let rise twice.
  2. Add remaining ingredients. Add more flour if puree is not dry enough. Knead with dough hook until it forms a ball. Dough should not stick to sides of bowl. Cover, let rise two times. Shape as desired. Brush with beaten egg and dust with sea salt.
  3. Bake at 400 degrees F until deep golden brown.

Lamb Sliders

  1. Blend in a bowl together. Form into patties and broil in hot oven until juices run clear.

Sweet Onion Marmalade

  1. Sauté onions in butter on low heat until translucent. Add sugar and cook 5 minutes. Increase heat to medium. Add remaining ingredients and reduce to syrup consistency. Season with salt and pepper.
  2. Assembly: Put the lamb “slider” on the pumpkin brioche with the Sweet Onion Marmalade.

Attribution

Chef Joseph Lakavage, Balboa Caf , Olympic Valley, California



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