In N Out Burgers Recipe

A hand holding a burger with toppings and cheese.

Make the world famous In n Out Burgers Recipe in your own kitchen with this spot-on copycat recipe. Thin ground beef patties seasoned perfectly, topped with a special sauce, sliced tomatoes, onion, and leafy green lettuce. This is my family's favorite way to eat hamburgers, or cheeseburgers, for dinner.

Course Dinner

Cuisine American

Keyword copycat recipe for in n out burgers, in n out burgers recipe

Prep Time 20

Cook Time 10

Servings

Calories 402kcal

Author Jessica - Together as Family

Equipment

Burger Press

Ingredients

Special Sauce "Spread"

1/3 cup mayonnaise
2 tablespoons ketchup
1 tablespoon dill pickle relish
1 teaspoon yellow mustard
1/4 teaspoon paprika

In N Out Burgers

1 pound ground beef (I use 90/10)
1 yellow onion grated
1 large egg white
1 tablespoon Worcestershire sauce
½ teaspoon seasoning salt
½ teaspoon black pepper

For Serving

7 hamburger buns
7 slices American cheese
sliced tomatoes
sliced white onion
green leaf lettuce or Iceberg lettuce

Instructions

Make the secret sauce by combining all of the ingredients in a small mixing bowl, and stirring until combined. Store covered in the refrigerator until ready to use.
In a large bowl add ground beef, grated onion, egg white, worcestershire sauce, seasoning salt, and black pepper. Mix together with a fork, wooden spoon, or clean hands until combined.
* To make it easier, I like to take my hands and crumble the ground beef into the bowl and then add the ingredients. This makes it easier to mix together.
Shape mixture into 7 thin patties. This is a copycat recipe and the patties are supposed to be really thin.
* I like to use a hamburger press for this.
Grill patties, or cook in a skillet pan (grilling is preferred), until no longer pink on the inside and at a temperature of 160° F.
This takes about 4-5 minutes per side.
* If you want to toast the buns, throw them on the grill while the burgers are cooking.
Place a slice of american cheese on each hamburger and let it melt, about 30 seconds.
Spread secret sauce on each inner bun and place grilled patties on the bottom bun. Top with lettuce, tomato, and thinly sliced onion.

Notes

Ground Beef : I use 90/10 or 93/7 but I know lots of people prefer a fattier ground beef mixture when making burgers. Any will work.

Onion : Use the fine side of a cheese grater to grate the onion. You don't want to add excess moisture into the ground beef mixture, so if the onion is really wet take a paper towel and dab it or use your hands and try to squeeze the excess moisture out.

Burger Press : I prefer using a burger press when making burgers. It gets them all a uniform size and flattens them out thin. (I have linked the burger press that I use above in the recipe card. It is an affiliate link, meaning that if you purchase from that link, I make a very small amount of money.)

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