Smoky Lamb Burger

If you like hamburgers you’ll love this one. Here we have taken the richness of lamb added some of Patti’s seasonings and then onto the smoker. We love lamb in all forms: chops, leg, etc. tonight we decided on ground. Talk about good, oh man, yes. Serve it with a garlic skillet with some pierogies thrown in and you be stylin’.

Prep Time: 10 minutes

Cook Time: 45 minutes

Grill: Royall 3000 Wood Pellet Grill

Pellets: Royall house blend: hickory, oak, cherry

Ingredients:

2 lbs. ground lamb

½ cup red onion, chopped

1/2 cup Country Bob’s All Purpose Sauce

4 Tbsp. rosemary, fine chopped

3 Tbsp. cilantro, rough chopped

2 Tbsp. crushed garlic

2 tsp. Dijon mustard

½ tsp. Country Bob’s Seasoning Salt

Lamb Burgers on a Royall 3000 Wood Pellet Grill/Smoker

Directions:

Mix all ingredients together and make into patties. Patti likes to make her patties by hand and I like to use a press. I can’t tell if they hold together or cook any different. Like hamburger these will hold together better if you keep them in the refrigerator until you are ready for them to go on the grill.

Cooking Directions: Royall Wood Pellet Grill

Open the lid and set the dial to “Smoke”, turn it on. After about five minutes you can shut the lid. Give it about 10 minutes to heat up. Patti has lined the drip pan with foil for me, it makes for easier clean up. Place your burgers directly onto the grill and just let them hang out in the smoke and get happy for 30 minutes or so.

This is referred to as “smoking”; the temperature is around 165-180 degrees. 30 minutes of smoking is not enough to have any cooking effect on your meat but, it is enough to open the pores up so that the meat can pick up all the flavor of the smoke.

After 30 minutes, turn the control up to high or 400 degrees for another 20 minutes. When the meat reaches an internal temp around 160 pull it off, cover it and let it rest for 10 minutes before serving. Keep in mind that the meat will continue cooking for another 10 degrees after you pull it off the grill.

                         Lamb Burgers on a Royall 3000 Wood Pellet Grill/Smoker

Note: I get a lot of questions about the kind of pellets you can use with a recipe. Keep in mind that a recipe is just an outline. Some you need follow closely like when you are making bread, but most you can do anything you can dream, our favorite way to cook. Feel free to mix and match the pellets until you find a combination you really like. Also you are only smoking at temps less than 250 degrees, anything higher is cooking and there will not be much if any smoke so it does not matter what kind of pellet you are using.

Directions: Gas Grill
Cook Time: 45 minutes
Grill: Indirect Low & Medium Heat

Preparing Grill:  Low Indirect Heat

Smoke for 30 minutes

Preheat your grill to low heat (180 - 225) and turn off one side so you will be cooking with indirect heat. Add your wet hickory chips over the fire and oil the grill. A cooking spray is easiest for this. (Note: you can add your hickory directly to the grill or you can use foil smoke packets.(Two handfuls wet chips and one dry, fold foil into a packet, poke holes in it with a fork and you’re good to go.)

Preparing Grill: High Indirect Heat
Grill for 15 minutes or a temperature of 160 degrees is reached.

Preheat your grill to High heat (400-500) and turn off one side so you will be cooking with indirect heat. Add your wet hickory chips to the fire and oil the grill. A cooking spray is easiest for this. (Note: you can add your hickory directly to the grill or you can use foil smoke packets.(Two handfuls wet chips and one dry, fold foil into a packet, poke holes in it with a fork and you’re good to go.)

Preparing Charcoal Grill

Get the Grill ready, you will want your temperature of around 400-500 degrees. Remember, you are going high heat here for about 14 minutes. Bank your coals over to one side of your grill. Add your “drained wood chips” and you are good to go… Your cooking times and temps will be the same as above.

Cooking In the Oven:

We have been getting requests for recipe conversions for the oven. I tell folks all the time that cooking on a Royall wood pellet grill is just as easy as cooking in your oven. Just about anyone can do it and do it well. Think about it. You set your control knob to the temp you want, put your meat in and leave it for a set time.

It is the same thing, time and temp. is what it is all about. The Royall is just like your oven except it uses wood pellets and has wheels.

If you want to smoke in your oven they sell oven smokers for that. I, myself, would not spend the money on one of those when you can make your own out of foil.

Foil smoke packets. (Two handfuls wet chips and one dry, fold foil into a packet, poke holes in it with a fork and you’re good to go.) Just set it in the oven. You might want to make sure you turn on your vent fan or your house will fill up with smoke. You will give your alarms a good work out.

About our Recipes

We do our recipes on our patio where we have a lineup of grills, including Royall Wood Pellet Grill/Smoker, Traeger, Charmglow, Char-Broil, The Big Easy, Brinkman and Weber. I call it our “Wall of Grill”. Our grilling styles are healthy and low fat and will fit pellet heads, gas, natural wood and even charcoal purists. Almost any of our recipes can be done on any kind of good BBQ.

The important thing to keep in mind is TIME & TEMPERATURE. You can even do some of them in the oven or crock pot, but, then you lose all the flavors you get from cooking outdoors. But sometimes it does rain.

Remember that a recipe is simply an outline; it is not written in stone. Don’t be afraid to make changes to suit your taste.

Take it and run with it….

Live Your Passion,

Ken & Patti

Al Malekovic makes a fine all purpose sauce. Patti uses it for seasoning all kinds of things, but I like it on potatoes, burgers and steaks.
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               “Country Bob’s All Purpose Sauce”

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