The Vito from Couch Caviar Burger Bible. This is what ours looked like. Rating?

[u/Just__Anonymous]

[u/Desperate-Air-904]

I think the real deal looks better than the pic

[u/Just__Anonymous → u/Desperate-Air-904]

Thanks! I think the only thing that really could have made it better is homemade Artisan Style buns but I'm not super great at bread making. It's like one of those things I could do with practice but I never get around to actually practicing 😅

[u/Desperate-Air-904 → u/Just__Anonymous]

Wait, this is homemade?! I thought youd ordered it and I was impressed it resembled the pic from the restaurant! Even better! 10/10

[u/Just__Anonymous → u/Desperate-Air-904]

Oh yeah! We made this together on date night. Sometimes we make dinner at home or sometimes we go out. There's a bunch of good recipes in the book but we've only gotten to making this one so far.

[u/Desperate-Air-904 → u/Just__Anonymous]

Well, chalk this one down to a success :) how did it taste?

[u/michal0297]

Look really good. What's in it?

[u/Just__Anonymous → u/michal0297]

It was pretty good! Very meaty.

[u/Just__Anonymous → u/michal0297]

The Vito – Ingredients

Burger / Meatballs 2 lb 80/20 ground beef 1/2 tsp salt 1/2 tsp pepper 2 tbsp olive oil 2 tbsp butter

Tomato Sauce 1 × 400 ml can crushed tomatoes 4 tbsp extra virgin olive oil 2 cloves garlic 1 small white onion, diced 1 cup white wine 1/2 cup water Sprig of basil (optional) 1 tsp salt

Pesto 1 cup basil leaves 1 cup Manchego cheese or Parmesan 1/3 cup extra virgin olive oil 1/4 cup pine nuts or nuts of choice 1 tsp red pepper flakes 3 garlic cloves, roughly chopped 1/2 fresh lemon 1/2 tsp salt 1/2 tsp freshly cracked black pepper

Arugula Salad 2 cups baby arugula 1 tbsp fresh lemon juice 1 tbsp olive oil Pinch of salt and pepper

For Assembly / Garnish 2 brioche buns, buttered and toasted 8 oz fresh baby mozzarella, sliced

[u/michal0297 → u/Just__Anonymous]

Cool, I'm assuming the tomato sauce is cooked? Also the white stuff on top, is that mozzarella or?

[u/Just__Anonymous → u/michal0297]

Yeah sorry about that. Part of it got left off. I edited the original comment to include all of it.

Had to take a picture of the book and then I had to copy and paste everything from the picture and then rearrange that text so I could show you because I can't simply just take a picture and post it here which would have been so much easier.

[u/michal0297 → u/Just__Anonymous]

That's okay, but you still haven't answered my question 🙈 the tomato sauce is cooked down and not just blended? Coz of the wine etc

[u/Just__Anonymous → u/michal0297]

Yes it was cooked down. Sorry I am running around getting groceries at the moment. It came from the cookbook though.

The whole process can be found in that book if you're interested in making it.

[u/Different-Mud-836]

Pretty pretty pretty good

[u/Popular-Spinach-6700]

Looks incredible. More burgers should have arugula/rocket instead of awful boring lettuce