Wild Boar Burger With Fresh Herbed Quark

[Leica Sport Optics]

Ingredients​

For the meat

• 600 g ground wild boar meat (approx. 20% fat content)
• 1 tbsp. tomato paste
• ½ tsp. coriander seeds
• ½ tsp. mustard seeds
• 1 small onion
• Salt
• Pepper
• 3 tbsp. olive oil

For the buns

• 4 tbsp. milk
• ½ cube of fresh yeast
• 15 g sugar
• ½ tsp. salt
• 40 g soft butter
• 250 g white flour
• 2 eggs
• Sesame seeds

For the garnishes

• 100 g cream cheese
• 100 g quark
• 2 tbsp. lemon juice
• ½ tsp. sugar
• Salt
• Pepper
• 1 handful of fresh garlic mustard leaves (Alliaria petiolata)
• 150 g brown mushrooms
• 2 tbsp. butter
• 1 tbsp. oil
• 50 ml dry white wine
• 2 tomatoes
• 1 red onion

Preparation​

For the buns, put 100 ml of lukewarm water and 2 tbsp. of milk in a bowl, add sugar, and crumble in the yeast. Leave to stand for about 5 minutes. Then add flour, salt, one egg, and the soft butter and knead everything into a smooth dough.

Cover the dough and let it rise in a warm place for about 1 hour. Then divide the dough into 4 equal parts and shape the buns. To do this, shape the dough into round balls and then carefully press each into a flat, even disk (about 8 cm in diameter) on a baking sheet lined with parchment paper. Cover the dough and let it rise in a warm place for another hour. Preheat the oven to 200 °C. Then mix the other egg with 2 tbsp. water and 2 tbsp. milk (room temperature) and brush the buns with it. Sprinkle sesame seeds on top. Put the buns in the oven and bake for 15-20 minutes, until the surface is golden brown. Let cool on a wire rack.

Mix the lemon juice with the sugar and add to the cream cheese. Add the quark, stir in the finely chopped leaves of the garlic mustard, and season with salt and pepper.

Dice the onion very finely. For the patties, the ground meat should not be too lean, a fat content of 20% is ideal. Mix the ground wild boar well with salt, pepper, tomato paste, crushed coriander, and mustard seeds, and the diced onion, and then form into 4 flat patties. The patties should be as loose as possible, but not fall apart in the pan. The best way to shape the patties is on baking paper, then they won’t stick to the surface. Coat a grill pan with olive oil and cook the patties for 8-10 minutes, until cooked through.

Cut mushrooms into small pieces and heat 1 tbsp. oil and 2 tbsp. butter in another pan. Sauté mushrooms and deglaze with wine. Cook for 5 minutes, season with salt and pepper.

Cut the buns in half, toast them briefly, then spread a generous amount of the quark mixture and some fresh garlic mustard leaves onto the lower half. Top with wild boar patty. Finally, top each patty with roasted mushrooms, 2 tomato slices and 2 onion rings, and the other half of the bun