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Rochester Garbage Plate

  • Intermediate
  • 75 min
  • roughly 2 of 4 for cost

gently hot · earthy · rich · warm-spiced Leads with a warm current of chile, an earthy, grounding base, fading in warm spice.

Ingredients

  • 500g home fries, fried crisp
  • 500g macaroni salad
  • 4 cheeseburger patties or 4 red hots
  • For the hot sauce: 450g ground beef, 1 onion grated, 2 tbsp chili powder, 1 tsp cumin, 1 tsp allspice, 1 tsp paprika, 250ml water
  • Yellow mustard, chopped onion, and white bread to serve

Equipment

Grater / zester

Allergen screen

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Method

  1. Simmer the raw ground beef in the water with the onion and spices 45 min until dark and loose; never brown it first. 45 min
  2. Fry the home fries until crisp and make or buy a proper mayonnaise macaroni salad.
  3. Cover half a plate with home fries and the other half with macaroni salad.
  4. Lay the burgers or hot dogs across both.
  5. Ladle the meat sauce over everything, then mustard and raw onion. Two slices of white bread on the side, no argument.

At the Table

The Pour
Cabernet Sauvignon or Malbec
Also Right
Zinfandel or Tempranillo
From the Taps
IPA or amber ale
Zero-Proof
Root beer, no apology

A burger is seared beef plus fat plus bread: tannic reds do the steakhouse work, and a hop-bitter IPA scrubs the griddle richness between bites.

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