The Ains' Big Smashed Burger - Ainsley Harriott

Ingredients

• 800g good quality beef (chuck) steak mince (18-20% fat)
• 8 slices of burger cheese
• 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
• 4 seeded burger buns
• iceberg lettuce, shredded
• ¼ white onion, finely diced
• 1-2 dill pickles/gherkins, sliced