If you love cheeseburgers, then you have to make this Airfryer Five Guys Cheeseburger Fakeaway. Its beefy, savoury, melty and saucy all at once, wrapped up in a soft brioche bun.
I love a thin burger patty; too much meat in my mouth at once (get your mind out of the gutter!) provides too much umami without the right balance of flavour. So smashed burger patties, and especially ones I’ve made myself, are perfect.
Layer that Airfryer Five Guys Cheeseburger Fakeaway burger up with tomato ketchup, mustard, red onion and tomato and we’re onto a winner!
The extra punch of taste within the meat mixture – of marmite and worcestershire sauce – elevates it from a basic burger to ‘damn, this is tasty burger!’ And the airfryer element ensures to melt it just enough so that all the elements merge and combine together perfectly for when you take a bite.
Ingredients
Mince: I usually use beef mince (20% fat) from the butchers, because it has the most flavour. But you can also use lean mince (like above) if you’d prefer to reduce the calories.
Worcestershire sauce: adds an extra zing! You could also use HP sauce instead.
Marmite: even if you’re not a lover of marmite, I would encourage you to buy it for inclusion in some of your savoury dishes. The yeast extract based condiment adds a lovely umami undertone. I also use it in my Cottage Pie recipe.
Burger Buns: I love a sesame seeded burger bun, and I think the brioche handles the air frying element of this recipe really well. But use any burger bun you like.
Cheese: I’m a self confessed cheese snob, but there is only one cheese I love on my burgers and that’s American burger cheese slices. Substitute with any cheese you like though – go wild!
Tomato: I use large fresh vine tomatoes
Onion: I use red onion, as they are less harsh than their brown counterparts. But if that’s all you have available then you can use my tip below to reduce the harshness.
To reduce the harshness of the onions, you can soak them in boiling water for 5 minutes, drain them and dry them off before using this hack.
Mustard: English mustard is my preferred choice here, but dijon could work too.
Ketchup
Salad Leaves
You can add any other toppings to your Airfryer Five Guys Cheeseburger Fakeaway that you desire (haggis, black pudding, bacon, hash brown). I stuck to simple and classic burger toppings for this recipe, but the literal burger is your oyster here.
How To Make Airfryer Five Guys Cheeseburger
Combine beef mince, worcestershire sauce, marmite, salt & pepper in a bowl
Mix well with hands. The marmite will stick to your hands slightly, but you can use the meat to get it off. This may sound unpleasant to some of you, but it’s the most effective way to get the marmite evenly distributed through the meat mixture. Use gloves if you prefer.
Weigh the total mixture and divide equally by 6 and roll into a ball shape, refrigerate if using later.
Flatten each individual ball between greaseproof paper and flatten very thin using meat hammer (or rolling pin) – the burgers will contract when cooking so flatten as thin as possible.
Fry burgers in frying pan until cooked (a minute or two on each side if sufficient)
Assemble burger as seen in video on sesame seed burger bun with tomato, onion, mustard, ketchup salad leaves & cheese slices
Wrap full burger in tinfoil and airfry for 5 minutes at 200C
PrintAirfryer Five Guys Cheeseburger
- Prep Time: 10 minutes
- Cook Time: 10 minutes
- Total Time: 20 minutes
- Yield: 6 1x
- Category: Dinner, Lunch
- Cuisine: American
Ingredients
- 500 g lean beef mince
- salt & pepper
- 2 tsp Worcestershire sauce
- 1 tsp marmite
- 6 sesame seed brioche burger buns
- 12 american cheese slices
- tomato
- red onion
- english mustard 1 tsp per burger
- ketchup 1 tsp per burger
- salad leaves
Instructions
- Combine 500 g lean beef mince, 2 tsp Worcestershire sauce, 1 tsp marmite, salt & pepper in a bowl and mix well with hands
- Weigh the total mixture and divide equally by 6 and roll into a ball shape, refrigerate if using later
- Flatten each individual ball between greaseproof paper and flatten very thin using meat hammer (or rolling pin) – the burgers will contract when cooking so flatten as thin as possible
- Fry burgers in frying pan until cooked
- Assemble burger as seen in video on sesame seed burger bun with tomato, red onion, english mustard, ketchup & cheese slice
- Airfry, wrapping in tinfoil, for 5 minutes at 200C
