How To Make Ground Beef Patties For Burgers (2024)

Published: May 22, 2024 · Modified: Aug 1, 2024 by Jenna Passaro · This post may contain affiliate links.

In less than 5 minutes you can make ground beef patties for burgers. This recipe makes 4 half-pound patties. Finish your homemade hamburger patties by making grilled burgers, sous vide, smoked, or in a cast-iron skillet.

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How do you make hamburger patties that don’t fall apart?

Using this hamburger patty recipe is a good start, because there aren’t a lot of ingredients. When you add in other ingredients, you’re adding in other variables to the burgers which can make burger meat fall apart. Also, using ground beef that is too lean (95% or above) doesn’t have enough fat content in it to stay together easily.

Do homemade burgers need eggs?

No, homemade burgers don’t need eggs to bind them. Other ground beef recipes like these low carb meatballs need eggs to help bind the ingredients because they have additional dry ingredients like bread crumbs and onions. The few ingredients is why this is a very easy burger recipe.

How do you eat your burgers?

I will try them with almost any topping – except peanut butter. Well, maybe I’d try that but I’ve seen it out at some of the best Portland restaurants, but haven’t ordered it! My husband Patrick swears the best burger is a toss up between plain ol’ BBQ sauce and fried onions, or something with fancy cheese – like blue cheese or gouda.

What are some leftover hamburger recipes?

If you have leftover hamburger meat from this recipe, use it on a Philly cheesesteak pizza instead of cooking up coulotte or flank steaks for the topping. Make sheet pan beef tacos. Or make a taco style homemade pizza with store bought dough. Make the ultimate family favorite comfort food… add smoked mashed potatoes to make a shepherds pie.

Ingredients

You just need a few things to make ground beef patties for burgers.

• Delicious ground beef (try wagyu beef or 80 lean / 20 fat ground beef)
• Seasonings. In this simple hamburger patty recipe, you’ll see salt and pepper. You could add a dash of garlic powder, too.

How to make burger patties from ground beef

Step 1. Add ground beef to a large bowl.

Break it up gently with hands or a spoon.

Add the salt and pepper to the ground beef. Mix seasonings with the ground beef gently until integrated.

Step 2. Separate the burger meat into four 8-ounce thick patties.

Form a ball, then flatten the burgers into disc shapes, a little bigger than the burger buns they’ll go on.

See how to get a heart shaped burger…

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Push down the center of the burgers, if desired, to make a 2-3” indent.

Add an additional sprinkle of salt and pepper to the outside of the burgers, if desired.

Finish hamburger patties any way you’d like. I usually make a big batch at a time, and freeze some for making sous vide burgers later.

Meal prepping tip: it’s better tovacuum seal burgersfrom frozen. Learn morein thisguide on how to vacuum seal meat.

For a classic burger, top with cheese, lettuce, tomato, onion, and your sauce of choice.

Gourmet topping ideas for burgers

• A fancy cheese like gruyere, feta, or blue cheese crumbles
• Sauteed onions and peppers
• Caramelized onions
• Sautéed mushrooms
• Tzatziki sauce (like in this sous vide lamb burger recipe)
• Red wine caramelized red onions
• Make it a “farm burger” and top with sous vide pork or sous vide bacon
• Sous vide onions
• Sous vide bacon
• Red cabbage and carrot slaw

There are so many ways to cooking beef burger recipes once your patties are formed. Grill, sous vide, air fry burgers, cook them low and slow in the slow cooker, or cook them in a cast iron skillet. Learn more about sous vide hamburgers in The Home Chef’s Sous Vide Cookbook.

More easy ways to season ground beef patties

The basic salt and pepper tastes just great in these ground beef hamburger patties. But, if you’re a spice-aholic like me, here are more seasonings you can add:

• A super light sprinkle of ultra-powerful ultra-powerful black garlic sea salt.
• Texas-style bbq salt.
• For campfire burger vibes: liquid smoke and hickory smoked black pepper.
• For an enhanced flavor, add some worcestershire sauce and garlic powder.
• Adding spice blend that’s on the spicy side? Add a little brown sugar to balance out the heat.

See how to toast buns on griddle…

If you really want a good burger with surprisingly juicy flavor, check out how to finish hamburgers with a mayo sear.

Like pizza? Try my smoked pizza or this taco-inspired ground beef pizza.

So many tasty recipes with ground beef to try…

When we have a pound of ground beef and don’t know what to do with it, some of our favorite Italian dishes are baked rigatoni with ground beef or stuffed shells with meat. Or brown the beef and add it to a simple pasta sauce.

Gourmet burger recipes from Sip Bite Go to check out…

• Smoked burgers
• Viral taco smash burgers
• Breakfast burgers
• Onion smash burgers
• Philly cheesesteak smash burgers
• Blackstone burgers
• Burger sliders
• See how to make hamburger patties step by step
• GUIDE: how long to grill burgers
• Sous vide burgers
• Mayo seared sous vide burgers
• Sous vide lamb burgers
• Smoked bacon wrapped burgers
• Bacon wrapped burgers
• Cheeseburger pizza
• See more Blackstone griddle recipes
• Learn how to toast buns on griddle
• See the best burger recipes…

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The wrong meat thermometer will ruin your food… see the BBQ meat thermometers I credit for getting delicious results.

Final tips for making beef patties from scratch

• Final reminder on how to season hamburgers… Season the inside and outside of ground beef patties. Not just the outside!
• Don’t overmix the ground beef – just like when you make smoked meatloaf, you just want to gently combine the ingredients and form discs.
• Cook raw ground beef patties as desired on the grill, with a sous vide machine, or in a cast-iron skillet.

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Upgrade Your BBQ Game

The wrong meat thermometer will ruin your food… see the BBQ meat thermometers I credit for getting delicious results.

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