Latin American Recipe ⊶ Fritas Cubanas (Cuban Hamburgers)

Cuban-style hamburgers that'll wow them at your next get-together, or at a family dinner. Enjoy! You'll never want a burger any other way! Trust me, they're decadent!

Ingredients

• 2 yellow onions, quartered
• 2 (4 ounce) links chorizo sausage, casings removed
• 1 green bell pepper, quartered and seeded
• 6 cloves clove garlic
• 1 pound lean ground beef
• 1 pound ground pork
• 1 cup Italian-style bread crumbs
• 2 eggs, beaten
• 2 tablespoons ketchup
• 1 dash ground cumin
• sea salt to taste
• freshly ground black pepper
• 1 tablespoon vegetable oil, or as needed
• 12 hamburger buns, split
• 1 (9 ounce) can shoestring potatoes (such as Pik-Nik®)

Cooking Directions

1. Place yellow onions, chorizo, green bell pepper, and garlic in a food processor; pulse until minced.
2. Transfer onion mixture to a large bowl. Add ground beef, ground pork, bread crumbs, eggs, ketchup, cumin, salt, and black pepper; mix with your hands until well-blended.
3. Form mixture into 12 patties.
4. Heat oil in a large skillet over medium heat. Cook patties in batches until browned and medium well done, about 5 minutes per side.
5. Serve cooked patties on hamburger buns topped with shoestring potatoes.

Nutrition Facts

• calories557.5
• carbohydrateContent44.8 g
• cholesterolContent91 mg
• fatContent30 g
• fiberContent3.3 g
• proteinContent25.1 g
• saturatedFatContent9.5 g
• sodiumContent720.7 mg
• sugarContent3.5 g