One way to express love on Valentine’s Day is to serve your loved one breakfast in bed.

Try it with this flavour-packed breakfast sausage burger with bacon, cheese and tomato relish and you won’t regret it.

Here is how to prepare it:

Ingredients

•Onion, roughly chopped

•Tomato ketchup

•Oyster sauce

•Sausage meat, or meat squeezed from large sausages

•Egg yolk

•Flat-leaf parsley, leaves chopped

•Melting cheese

To serve

•Grilled rashers streaky smoked bacon

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•Ciabatta buns, halved

•Tomato relish

Method

•Put the onion, ketchup and oyster sauce in a food processor, then blend to a coarse paste, scraping down the sides of the processor if you need to.

•Put the sausage meat into a mixing bowl, beat in the onion mix, egg yolk and water then add the parsley.

•Separate the mix into 8, roll into large balls, then flatten into patties. Chill on a plate for 1 hr.

•To cook the burgers, heat a griddle or large frying pan without adding any extra fat. Fry for 3 minutes on one side until golden, turn down the heat for 5 minutes, then flip and repeat on the other side.

•While the burgers cook, fry the bacon and, some eggs as well.

•Heat the grill, then lightly toast the insides of the ciabatta buns.

•Place the cooked burgers on a baking sheet, put a slice of cheese on each, then pop under the grill to melt.

•Sit the burgers on their buns, then place the bacon on top.

•Slide fried eggs on top of the bacon if you wish.

•Serve with potato chips by the side if you like.