Oklahoma Onion Burger Recipe! (Sid's Diner)

hey guys thanks for stopping by ballistic barbecue uh today's burger was born out of the great depression in el reno oklahoma a little place called sid's diner we're gonna be making the oklahoma onion burger let's get going right so this is probably going to be the most basic burger i've made my series so far think about the origins they were using onion as filler because they were kind of rationing their meat with the depression going on and everything ingredients are about as simple as they can get all right i have some 80 20 uh ground beef here i'm not even really going to be you know making these nice little meatballs like i normally would they literally just tear off a clump of meat what they estimate to be about a third of a pound and plop that right onto the flat top i also have some extremely finely shredded onion here i would suggest you know using a mandolin or something you know like that i use this kind of a funky uh japanese tool called chef help to get it just fine um anyway let's get out to the grill all right guys you remember this one right anyway um i'm going to hit a little bit of oil on this thing okay patties now he uses this spatula thing that he makes out of a trowel because it's so heavy this thing's pretty darn heavy so and he just beats the crap out of these basically let nice and thin all right now the onions with a lot of onions going on these bad boys then matches it again salt pepper all right we're going to go ahead and turn these now do a gorgeous press nice i'm gonna hit him with a i'm gonna hit him with a little bit of more salt and pepper got some potato buns and i'm going to toast these it's probably not going to be on camera but i'm going to hit them on the grill side of this my weber cheese on mine all right guys so my rolls are nice and toasty now i actually gave this another smash like i did tried to do it on this one that's uh that was one step that i kind of left out they smashed it one more time all right nice all right i'll meet you guys in the house all right now sids will pretty much dress your burger with most of their traditional you know condiments but i'm going to keep this the way they were doing it back in the day when this burger was born and that's just pickles and yellow mustard about as simple as it gets there you go and again these sweet onions they just smell so killer check that out guys let's give this a shot it's good my wife pointed out she's in there eating hers right now and i agree it tastes very similar to uh animal style burger you get that mustard and that this the really sweet onion that's all grilled up in there anyway good burger thanks again guys i'll see on the next video you

Channel: Ballistic BBQ

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Length: 5min 53sec (353 seconds)

Published: Tue Mar 26 2013