🍳 Bacon Cheeseburgers with Pickled Cucumber Burger Sauce 🍳

For Americans, burger sauce is almost as important as the burgers themselves. The pickles, sauce and relish market is huge, but you can make this excellent version at home by simply mixing together a handful of ingredients that you are likely to have already in your kitchen. It is guaranteed to take your home-made burgers to the next level.

1. Preheat the grill to high.

2. Put the bacon on a baking tray and place under the grill for 8–10 minutes, or until crisp.

3. Mix together all the sauce ingredients.

4. Place the minced beef in a bowl and season with salt and pepper. Mix well with clean hands and form into 4 large burgers.

5. Heat the oil in a large frying pan and, when hot, add the burgers. Cook for 3 minutes on each side, then top each one with a slice of cheese, turn the heat down low and put a lid on the pan.

6. When the bacon is cooked, cut the burger buns in half and place under the grill until lightly toasted.

7. Spread 2 spoonfuls of the sauce on the bottom half of the buns, then put the burgers on top followed by the bacon. Now add the tomato slices, gherkins and lettuce. Spread another 2 spoonfuls of the sauce on the remaining halves of the buns and place them on top.