Ainsley Harriott served up The Ains’ Big Smashed Burger on Ainsley’s Fantastic Flavours.

The ingredients for the Burgers are: 800g good quality beef (chuck) steak mince (18-20% fat) and 8 slices of burger cheese.

For the Burger Sauce: 6 tbsp mayonnaise, plus extra for the buns, 1 tbsp very finely diced gherkin, plus 1 tsp pickling juice from the jar, 2 tsp American yellow mustard, 2 tsp ketchup, ½ tsp garlic powder/granules, ¼ tsp sweet smoked paprika, sea salt and freshly ground black pepper.

To Serve: 4 seeded burger buns, iceberg lettuce, shredded, ¼ white onion, finely diced and 1-2 dill pickles/gherkins, sliced.

See recipes by Ainsley in his book titled: Ainsley’s Mediterranean Cookbook available from Amazon now.