Lamb burger with minted yogurt sauce

Recipe Categories : | Burgers | Lamb | Sauces |

Makes : 4  Preparation time : 25 mins + 15 mins standing  Cooking time : 5-10 minutes

Ingredients :

• For minted yogurt sauce : ¾ cup plain yogurt
• 1 tbsp chopped fresh mint
• ¼ tspn ground cumin
• 1 tspn soft brown sugar
  For Burger :
• 500g lamb fillets
• salt and pepper
• 1 tspn ground cumin
• ¼ tspn sweet paprika
• 1 tbsp olive oil
• 30g butter
• 1-2 garlic cloves, crushed
• 1 tspn grated lemon rind
• 8 small round pitta breads, toasted
• 4 egg tomatoes, thinly sliced
• salt and cracked black pepper, extra
• green mango chutney, optional

  Preparation and Cooking Instructions

1. To make minted yogurt sauce : Place yogurt, mint, cumin and sugar in a small bowl. Stir to combine.
2. Trim lamb of excess fat and sinew. Combine salt, pepper, cumin and paprika. Rub evenly over lamb. Cover and stand for 15 minutes.
3. Heat oil butter in frying pan. Add garlic and lemon rind, cook 1 minute. Add lamb fillets. Cook over medium heat 4-5 minutes or until brown and tender. For well done lamb, continue cooking 2-3 minutes. Remove from pan, cover with foil, stand 5 minutes.
4. Place 4 pitta breads on serving plates and place tomato slices on each. Thinly slice lamb and lay over tomato. Sprinkle with salt and pepper. Spoon sauce, followed by remaining pitta bread. Serve with green mango chutney if desired.
5. Cooks notes : Pitta is a round flat two-layered bread. If you like it warm, heat it briefly in a slow oven or under a warm grill.