Stilton Cheese Venison Burger

 

Homemade Scottish venison burger with Stilton cheese

A cheeseburger comes in an increasing number of forms in modern times. All too often, however, the assemblies are not of the greatest quality, with fat oozing, greasy burgers making for soggy buns, stringy cheese and very little quality in terms of flavour or nourishment. The best way around this problem when you do have an inkling for a burger is of course to prepare it yourself. You may not of course have access to venison or be particularly fond of Stilton cheese, but a little bit of care and imagination can still help you create something many steps up from the mass produced, fast food offerings so readily available. And you will probably find that a homemade burger is a lot cheaper than a fast food one, as well as much better!

Cook Time

Prep time: 5 min

Cook time: 12 min

Ready in: 17 min

Yields: 1 serving

Ingredients

• 1 homemade venison burger, or quality venison burger from such as farm shop
• Vegetable oil for frying
• 2 or 3 slices of Stilton cheese, as required
• 3 cherry tomatoes, halved down through the core
• 1 teaspoon extra virgin olive oil
• 1 small garlic clove, peeled and crushed or grated
• Pinch chilli powder (optional)
• Salt and pepper
• 1 soft burger bun, halved horizontally
• 3 or 4 thin slices from stem of spring/green onion

Method

Pour the extra virgin olive oil into a glass bowl and add the garlic and chilli powder. Season with salt and pepper and stir well. Add the tomato halves and carefully stir fold to ensure even covering in the marinade. Cover until required.

Homemade venison burger is put on to fry

Pour the vegetable oil into a small, non-stick frying pan and bring it up to a medium heat. Fry the venison burger over a medium heat for 5 minutes each side or until done as you like it.

When the burger is turned to fry on its second side, put your kitchen grill (broiler) on to preheat to its maximum setting.

Stilton cheese is laid on venison burger

When the burger still has a couple of minutes to cook, arrange the Stilton cheese slices carefully on top in a single but slightly overlapping layer. When the cooking time is up, turn the heat off under the pan and allow the cheese to complete melting in the residual heat for a further couple of minutes.

Venison cheeseburger on bun

Toast the cut sides of the bun under your grill and lay the halves on your serving plate, cut sides up. Lift the cheesy burger on to the bottom half of the bun with a spatula.

Marinated tomatoes and spring onion on venison burger

Lift the tomato halves from the marinade with a fork and arrange them on top of the cheese. Add the sliced spring onion last of all and close the bun over to serve.