Indian-Spiced Pork Burgers

Between our vacation in Europe and my business trip to Hong Kong, we haven’t tackled many new recipes recently. Today we finally made some time to try out one of the Tuesday Night recipes from our latest issue of Milk Street Magazine: Indian-spiced pork burgers.

We admittedly weren’t sure whether we were going to like them or not. The idea of applying Indian spices (primarily a combination of garam masala, paprika, and cumin) to a burger seemed like it go either way: tasty or downright scary. They actually ended up on the tasty side, particularly when served with a little yogurt, mint, and tomato for topping. And they’re relatively easy to make as well (in the spirit of a Tuesday Night recipe): mix the spices into a paste, work it into the ground pork, rest the patties in the fridge for 15 minutes, and then cook ’em.