Skillet Burgers Alongside Love Apple Tree Gravy
Real Food, Hearty & Filling. Budget Friendly. Weeknight Easy, Weekend Special. Great for Meal Prep. Low Carb. High Protein. Weight Watchers Friendly. Naturally Gluten Free.
Supper Savers.
Is that what you telephone band the dishes that yous tin brand – inwards a flash – almost without thinking, amongst always-on-hand pantry ingredients?
Most of my Supper Saver recipes start amongst eggs. “One of us” (that would live on me) could swallow eggs for supper 1 nighttime later the adjacent but the “other of us” (that would live on him) sees it otherwise.
So amongst a freezer total of beef – paid-for if non costless poly peptide – I’m collecting recipes to convey at the gear upwards when liberate energy as well as ambition run depression only earlier supper.
The foremost fourth dimension “we” (that would live on him, I was writing on deadline) made this slowly supper dish, nosotros started amongst a jounce of marinara from the grocery store. Very good!
The adjacent fourth dimension “we” (that would live on me, he was feeling puny) made this, I started off amongst my ain Tomato Gravy, a homemade marinara, the recipe I’ve been making mine for awhile now. The results? Just excellent!
Tomato Gravy is my variety of “Homemade Pantry” – something that tin simmer away amongst lilliputian attention, letting me proceed busy elsewhere inwards the kitchen spell the identify fills amongst supper’s-in-the-oven smells.
But Is It Really Tomato Gravy? Or Is It "Homemade Marinara Sauce"?
"Tomato Gravy" only has a ring, doesn't it? We foremost made this recipe means dorsum final leap but I didn't pay attending to the "tomato gravy" inwards the inspiring recipe's title, possibly because for a long while, I'd been working to abide by "my" homemade marinara sauce as well as was therefore happy to abide by a love apple tree combination that industrial plant for me.
Then a duad of weeks ago, a long-time reader (hello Walter!) asked if I'd ever made love apple tree gravy. I'd never heard of it! Google provided about quick answers as well as I lay Tomato Gravy on my to-make listing for adjacent yr when summertime tomatoes are 1 time again inwards season.
So telephone band this what yous like, Tomato Gravy or "Homemade Marinara Sauce" albeit amongst a modest boot from the chile that I don't intend is typical inwards the authentic Italian recipes. But I exercise brand as well as utilization it similar cooks brand as well as utilization marinara. Just this calendar month I made a double batch, used about inwards Cast Iron Meatloaf as well as therefore froze the rest. It's therefore corking to convey on hand! Maybe it'll live on "your" Homemade Marinara Sauce too!
What Makes This Recipe Special
- Homemade comfort food, hearty as well as satisfying.
- No burger buns? No problem.
- Not entirely a supper saver but a pantry meal, only reason beef + pantry ingredients.
QUICK SUPPER: SKILLET BURGERS amongst TOMATO GRAVY
Time to table: 65 minutes
Makes 7 smallish but filling burgers or 4 larger burgers
- TOMATO GRAVY
- 2 tablespoons olive oil
- 2 cloves garlic, peeled as well as smashed but left whole
- 1 28-ounce tin whole tomatoes
- 1 loving cup water
- 1 modest dried chile
- 1 teaspoon kosher salt
- 1 teaspoon sugar
- SKILLET BURGERS
- 1 pound reason beef
- 1 large egg
- 2 teaspoons kosher salt
- 1 teaspoon dried oregano
- 1 tablespoon olive oil
- 1 large onion, halved, cutting inwards sparse one-half rings
- Water, if needed
- Fresh herbs, for garnish
TOMATO GRAVY In a large heavy Dutch oven, estrus olive petroleum on medium high heat. Add garlic as well as permit sizzle only until offset to plow color. Add the tomatoes (be careful, they’ll sizzle). If needed, plow the estrus downwards to avoid burning the tomatoes along the edges. With a white patato masher, crush the tomatoes correct inwards the pan.
Add the water, chile, common salt as well as sugar. Bring to a boil as well as adapt estrus to keep a tiresome simmer for close fifteen minutes, reducing the gravy past times close a quarter.
Remove the chile as well as garlic.
SKILLET BURGERS Heat oven to 425F/220C.
In a large bowl, utilization your hands to combine reason beef, egg, common salt as well as oregano without working the mixture likewise much. Form into 4 or half dozen burgers.
In a large, heavy oven-safe skillet amongst a cover, estrus the olive petroleum until shimmery. Add the burgers (they should sizzle) as well as brownish good on both sides; laid aside. Leave the drippings inwards the pan, add together the onion as well as permit brown, stirring occasionally as well as adding H2O if the skillet is dry.
Stir inwards the Tomato Gravy. Nestle the burgers inwards the gravy, therefore utilization a spoon to drizzle about gravy over the burgers.
Cover as well as bake for fifteen minutes.
Uncover as well as bake for about other fifteen minutes.
TO SERVE If yous like, serve amongst White Rice as well as a fresh salad. Tis a feast!

In summer, when fresh herbs are costless for the picking from pots on the patio, I add together a whole sprig of something, basil, oregano, tarragon, basil, etc. as well as permit the oils infuse the marinara.
For aesthetics, exercise brownish the burgers quite well. They’ll complete cooking inwards the oven but the brownish color makes for a improve appearance.
MAKE-AHEAD TIPS Make the Tomato Gravy a hateful solar daytime or 2 ahead of time. Some times I brand a double or triple batch, it freezes beautifully!

WEIGHT WATCHERS POINTS Old Points 5/8 & PointsPlus 5/9 & SmartPoints 5/11 & Freestyle 5/8 & myWW greenish 5/8 & bluish 5/8 & imperial 5/8
CALORIE COUNTERS ½ burger + sauce = 109 calories (9g protein)
WEIGHT WATCHERS POINTS Old Points 1 & PointsPlus 1 & SmartPoints 1 & Freestyle 1 & myWW greenish 1 & bluish 1 & imperial 1

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