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Smartprice Challenge Mega Burger

by Matt Hardy 8 photos Rated 59% 254 votes when voting closed

Firstly, I’d like to clarify what the Smartprice challenge actually IS.

It’s 8 o’clock, you and your mates are bored, and you have about £6 between you. You drive to Asda and you buy as much stuff as you can for the little money you have, hence THE SMARTPRICE CHALLENGE!

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Ingredients:
Smartprice Mince – 1.5 kg
Smartprice Cheese – 10 slices
Onion 1
Smartprice Bread loaves – 1
British Little Gem Lettuce – 1

Two bags of Asda Smartprice mince, seeded rolls, cheese slices and lettuce on the worktop

Cost: A whopping £4.06

That’s actually enough for one mega burger, but we made two (foolishly)

Method

Fry up mince until brown.

Raw mince being worked together in a large steel pan on the hob

Add onion.

Squish into burger shaped thing (use bread for size).

The mince mixture pressed into one huge round patty on a black oven tray

Put in the oven at 200 c for 10-15 minutes.

While that is cooking, spice bread and lay down a layer of lettuce on the bottom half. Cook bacon.

Bacon rashers starting to cook in a square griddle pan, faint char lines showing

The cooked dinner-plate-sized patty on an oven tray held in oven gloves, fish slice alongside

Burger will be ready, place on top of lettuce layer and put bacon on top of burger.

Bacon and the giant patty layered onto the bottom bun half with a fish slice

Cover in cheese, another layer of lettuce and tomato ketchup

The finished burger on a plate being weighed on white kitchen scales

Try not to explode.

The burger cut open, one wedge plated separately, showing beef, cheese, bacon and lettuce layers

There you have it. Easy peasy.

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