BACON BLUE BURGER
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Serves 2 - 4
Ingredients: Stryker Farm Grass-Fed Ground Beef Patties 6 strips of Stryker Farm Dry Rubbed Bacon 1 sweet onion 6 oz baby portabella mushrooms Olive oil 1 TBSP unsalted butter Salt and pepper ¼ LB blue cheese Hamburger rolls |
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A good burger is built with excellent ingredients from bottom to top. This bacon blue cheese burger is a classic marriage of flavors. These pre-made beef patties are the perfect size to throw on the grill.
Instructions:
Instructions:
- Slice mushrooms and onions. Add them to a large skillet with a douse of olive oil. Cook them over a medium flame.
- Stir them occasionally allowing them to brown slowly. This is the most tedious part, but well-worth the trouble! Add some salt and pepper, and keep cooking them down for at least a half hour. Add some butter. Cook down for 15 more minutes. At this point you could deglaze them with a splash of bourbon.
- In the meantime cook the bacon in the oven. This achieves flat, uniformly cooked bacon - perfect for burger toppings. Place bacon on a baking sheet in a preheated oven at 400 F. Bake for 10 minutes, flip, and bake for 10 minutes on the other side.
- While the toppings are cooking, grill your burgers. In this case, I grilled them on a griddle on the stove top. This ensures maximum meat caramelization called the Maillard reaction.
- Assemble the burgers and top with a mound of crumbled blue cheese, I used a bitey Gorgonzola. You could serve these with one patty per burger, OR get crazy and double up!
- Serve with french fries and a cold beer.
