How to Cook Miami's Legendary Cuban Burger with George Motz | Burger Scholar Sessions

okay shall we we rolling camera no here's johnny [Music] hello my name is george moats my job is to preserve hamburger history and give it to you how about this one the cuban fritta invented in cuba obviously many many years ago and to me one of the greatest cuban-american gastronomic expressions but unfortunately the cuba the cuba sorry the cuban fritos alive and well in miami and that's important because you actually can't really find a good fritta in cuba anymore that's because thanks to many decades of communist rule all those ingredients are not available anymore in 1959 cubans began to flee their country following the cuban revolution and many settled in miami only about 200 miles away the frida was one of the culinary survivors of the exodus sharing the same dna as the american hamburger the frida was served from street carts in havana before fidel castro seized control of the country i don't see the talia oh it is okay you're rolling ruby okay marker people who know me know me as a purist and i wouldn't normally consider a hamburger or something with with stuff in the meat this is the one exception i do make basically it's an american hamburger with a lot of spices inside the meat but honestly really get a good one you have to go to el mago you have to go to el rey de las fritas all these great places that are in little havana in miami that's where you're going to find a great great cuban free town the beef is very important in my recipe to two pounds of ground beef i've added grated onion two garlic cloves two tablespoons of paprika some cumin pretty much the spices you'd find in chorizo we got a flat top and a hot flat top now all the fritta emporiums of little havana use a flat top also the only way to make it you'll see why i also have a special red sauce this sauce is very important this sauce actually lubricates the burger when it's on the flat top it's basically water apple cider vinegar hot sauce sugar tomato paste garlic okay i'm gonna make a patty right just like in little havana they smash it thin they also add some onion right now but once they smash it thin they use this red sauce on it check this out that bubbles up all around it [Music] okay flip you can see that the look at that it's almost like it's actually burned but it's because of all those spices and things in the burger it browns very quickly let that cook down now what i have over here is a classic cuban roll it's the cuban hamburger roll this is actually from miami we had this sent up to us this is an authentic cuban roll you can use any kind of hard roll they would normally toast it heat it up a little bit of heat was that water water so now we're done that's it the patty's done patty comes off onto the cuban roll follow me here ready for this one on top of that goes more onion these are deep-fried julienned potatoes potato sticks basically look at that and to that we actually also add i wouldn't normally ever do this ever no no no i'm trying to get in my head here okay ketchup is too sweet to put on a burger people to be totally honest the real reason i don't put ketchup on a burger and you shouldn't either is because it's a very overwhelming flavor ketchup is very sweet it takes away from all that beefy greatness going on there it's very sweet will i unfollow someone on instagram if i see them using ketchup now i will i disrespect them oh definitely it's too sweet my kids don't put ketchup on my burger that's crazy what kind of a dab would i be if my children were putting ketchup on a burger i think we had ketchup in this house we have ketchup in this house it was hidden in the back i appreciate this burger so much it is the one burger one of the very few burgers i'll actually have put ketchup on it's part of the experience and it actually does work really well with this and there it is that's the cuban frittata that's my version of the cuban frites at least i know everybody in miami miami's laughing but hey you know what i think i did a pretty good job oh that's good actually really good so yeah here's the thing it's good oh whoa oh good if you go to florida and you go down to south beach you owe it to yourself to get your ass off the beach cross 95 and go over little nevada and try to find a cuban free town seriously you're not really in miami if you're not eating like this sorry [Music] god camera

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Length: 5min 6sec (306 seconds)

Published: Tue May 19 2020