Danish Beef Patties with Brown Sauce (Hakkebøf)

Hakkebøf  is a Danish traditionally dish and is most likely to be served with soft onions, boiled potatoes, brown sauce  with some acidic or sweet such as gherkins, beetroot,  pickled red cabbage, red currant jelly and lingonberry jam. The round patty consists of minced premium meat such as sirloin steak seasoned with salt and pepper before being fried on a pan with a little butter.

Ingredients serve 4

600 g premium beef mince

2 onions (300 g)

75 g butter

Red cabbage

Potatoes

Brown sauce

Vegetable

Salt

Pepper

Method

Boil potatoes while making the patties and sauce. Divide minced meat into 4 balls and form round flat patties and make a crisscross pattern with a knife. Peel and thinly slide the onions. Melt 25 g butter in a frying pan over medium heat and cook onions until golden brown. Place the cook onions on a serving plate. Season the patties with salt and pepper before frying in the remaining butter on medium heat for approx. 8 min. on each side. They should remain slightly pink inside. Place on a serving plate and keep warm. Serve finished patties with potatoes, steamed vegetables brown onions and red cabbage.

Note: Try a patty in a burger bun with your favourite extras or with braised potatoes and a fried egg on top of the patty.