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I prepped some meatballs into mini breakfast rounds for future McGriddle sandwiches. I used my cute hamburger\/egg pan to form the patty by laying down a parchment paper round, topping it with a meatball that I pushed down on a bit before covering it with more parchment and using my slider patty hammer (I don’t know what it’s called) to press it out to a thin round of meat.<\/p>\n
Each meat then got air fried until they were fully cooked. After cooling them on a rack, I bagged them up to store them in the freezer for our weekend breakfasts together.<\/p>\n
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I wasn’t sure if this was going to work or not, so I bought a tray of meatballs that were reduced to clear, hence the different colours in the meat where the air oxidized the meat versus the red-pink of the meat underneath. Ultimately that oxidation didn’t matter since I cooked the meat to one uniform brown colour the same day I bought the meatballs.<\/p>\n
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Here is the final version of my knock-off McGriddle. I use a few tiny slices of cheese to hold the egg and meat together as a stack before placing them between two pancake ‘buns’ that may or may not have been drizzled with maple syrup right before serving.<\/p>\n
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Each egg layer was cooked in my hamburger pan. I cracked one egg inside each well, broke up the yolks, seasoned with S&P, and then flipped when the top edges were no longer wet looking with a small spatula and a fork. This process took less than three mins. The pancakes took a bit longer per side in the same pan.<\/p>\n
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I prepped some meatballs into mini breakfast rounds for future McGriddle sandwiches. I used my cute hamburger\/egg pan to form the patty by laying down a parchment paper round, topping it with a meatball that I pushed down on a … Continue reading