Garlic Pork Burgers (Spanish Style)

These Spanish style garlic pork burgers are loaded with flavor. Topped with cheese, grilled red onions, grilled Spanish ham and saffron aioli;  well this caper stuffed pork burger is incredible!

Pork burgers are not as popular as beef burgers, and I’m not really sure why. Manservant and I devoured these caper, garlic burgers quite quickly and I don’t think it was because we were just hungry!

Though I don’t eat beef, I do love burgers. And though I don’t post many recipes for burgers, the ones I do post are always quite popular. Let’s see if this Spanish pork burger holds up the tradition!

Maybe this pandemic has me craving foods full of flavor or maybe it is because I love aioli, but I felt the need to create a Spanish burger. It’s hard not to love something with saffron aioli and lots of garlic.

And capers? I do love capers and not just on lox. They always add that extra special something, don’t they?

Add some slices of grilled Spanish Serrano ham coated with aioli. Or use some sliced thin chorizo that fits your bun. Trader Joes’s sells a Spanish charcuterie package that contains chorizo and ham, so take your pick, or use both! AMAZING! 

Just so you know, no one is stopping you from chopping up some of that chorizo and mixing it into the meat. I try to keep things simple but oh my, that would really taste good.

So hear me out here. A burger just isn’t a burger unless it has onions. So bring on some grilled red onions, thank you very much! I also slathered those with a bit of saffron aioli before placing them on the grill. 

Cheese? Well Iberico Spanish cheese melts really well and since this is a Spanish burger, I decided to use Spanish cheese. I do love this on a cheese board, but must admit it was ideal for this pork burger.

A few other ingredients like Spanish smoked paprika, 3 cloves of chopped garlic and cilantro or Italian parsley, (if you can’t stand cilantro) were just a few seasonings that set this burger apart from the standard.

I like my ingredients everywhere, not just on top. Did someone say top?

Well, if you want more toppings roasted red peppers would be awesome or even those little piquillo peppers or peppadews would surely tempt me. And olives? This burger could stand some Manzanilla olives if you like olives, but olives are something you love or hate, right?

As for the bun? I love a good fresh potato roll, but a crusty roll would work, too. Keep in mind to make your burger about 3/4″ bigger than the bun. My buns were big so this recipe made 3 1/3 lb burgers.

Whatever you choose to make, it is burger month. That’s a fact! So I don’t know about you, but I’m hungry again!

Here’s a few of my more popular burgers:

Jalapeno Cream Cheese Burger

French Onion Burgers

Shrimp Burgers

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