Bacon Blue Cheese Burger with Caramelized Onions

Bacon Blue Cheese Burger is a gourmet burger recipe with a cheese stuffed bacon and beef blended burger patty topped with whiskey caramelized onions, pepper jelly, crisp greens and fresh thyme.

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Gourmet bacon burger

Created during a “Build Your Own Burger-Bar” dinner night this gourmet bacon burger recipe is a combination of smoky bacon, juicy ground beef, and umami-rich blue cheese balanced with fresh herbs and sweet, spicy jam.

To get creative with your own gourmet burger recipes prepare your own burger bar! To prepare an at home burger bar simply set out all sorts of toppings, seasonings and spreads and serve the burgers separately.

Take it up a notch and turn it into a creativity competition with judging for creativity and taste. Then choose one person as the reigning winner until the next ‘burger night’. Also a great idea for DIY pizza or hot dog night.

Ingredients

• Ground beef
• Sliced bacon – divided into ¼ pound chopped bacon for the burger patties and ¼ pound sliced bacon for serving.
• Blue cheese crumbles – or any other flavorful, creamy cheese like goat cheese, feta or brie for making the cheese stuffed burger patties and also for crumbling on top.
• Pretzel buns – add a nice chewy texture and extra flavor but any bun (or even lettuce!) can be substituted.
• Habanero pepper jelly – jalapeño jelly or chili onion jam
• Salt and pepper
• Arugula – Mixed greens or lettuce
• Sliced onion – half a large sweet onion or one smaller white or yellow onion
• Butter
• Thyme – fresh or dried
• Whiskey – or substitute with apple juice, cider, beer or stock.

Instructions

1. Cook bacon slices and set aside.
2. Make whiskey onions by slowly cooking sliced onion with butter, salt and thyme in a large heavy bottomed pan until soft and browned, about 15 minutes.

2. Carefully pour whiskey over onions stirring to deglaze, releasing the flavorful onion bits off the bottom. Season to taste with salt and pepper and set aside.

3. Form bacon beef burger patties by stirring 1 part chopped bacon together with 4 parts ground beef. Mix until combined and form into burger patties, using a light hand to stuffing with a few blue cheese crumbles. Or if you’re not a fan of blue cheese you can make goat cheese stuffed burgers instead.
4. When ready to grill, season with salt and pepper and grill until cooked through. Placing on a hot grill, cook 4 minutes covered on the first side. Then flip and continue cooking to desired doneness, 5-7 minutes more.

5. During the last 1-2 minutes of grilling, toast pretzel buns on a cool side of the grill then smear with habanero jelly.

6. Place each patty on a grilled pretzel bun and top with blue cheese, whiskey sautéed onions, lettuce (or a pickle!), fresh thyme and crumbled bacon.
7. Enjoy!

How to make burgers on the stove

Don’t feel like firing up the grill? No problem! Instead of grilling make burgers on the stove top for an even easier weeknight dinner. To cook burgers on the stove season patties and place in large preheated cast iron or heavy bottomed skillet and cook 4 minutes before turning. Continue cooking on the second side to taste, 5-7 minutes longer.

Make it your own

• Up the bacon flavor and make the whiskey onions in the same pan that you crisped the bacon slices in. After the bacon is removed use bacon grease in place of butter when caramelizing the Whiskey Onions.
• Or substitute apple juice or any other liquid in place of the whiskey.
• Add even more hearty flavor by blending chopped mushrooms into the patties along with the bacon and ground beef.

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Bacon Blue Cheese Burger with Caramelized Onions

Bacon Blue Cheese Burger with Caramelized Onions is a gourmet burger recipe with a cheese-stuffed bacon burger habanero pepper jelly and whiskey caramelized onions on a pretzel bun.

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Prep Time: 15 minutes minutes

Cook Time: 20 minutes minutes

Total Time: 35 minutes minutes

Course: main, Main Course

Cuisine: American

Servings: 4 people

Calories: 701kcal

Author: Tristin Rieken

Ingredients

• 1 pound ground beef
• ½ pound sliced bacon divided, 8 ounces
• ½ large sweet onion or 1 small yellow onion
• 1 ½ tablespoons butter
• ½ teaspoon fresh thyme or ¼ teaspoon dried thyme
• ¼ cup whiskey
• 2 ounces blue cheese crumbles
• 4 pretzel buns
• ¼ cup habanero pepper jelly or jalapeño jelly or chili onion jam
• salt and pepper
• arugula any other crisp green or lettuce

Instructions

• Divide bacon into two ¼ pound portions. Chop one portion and reserve to be used in the burger patties. Cook the other portion until crisp and save for later serving on the burger.
  ½ pound sliced bacon
• Meanwhile, make whiskey onions. Combine onion, butter, salt, and thyme in a skillet over medium heat. Stirring frequently cook until soft and browned, about 15 minutes. Carefully pour in whiskey to deglaze the bits off the bottom of the pan and stir with a wooden spoon. Simmer for about a minute to remove remaining moisture and set aside until ready to use.
  ½ large sweet onion, 1 ½ tablespoons butter, ½ teaspoon fresh thyme, salt and pepper, ¼ cup whiskey
• In a large bowl make bacon beef burger patties. Stir uncooked, chopped bacon into ground beef. Using a light hand form into burger patties, stuffing a few blue cheese crumbles in the center.
  1 pound ground beef, 2 ounces blue cheese crumbles
• When ready to grill, season with salt and pepper and grill until cooked through. Placing on a hot grill, cook 4 minutes covered on the first side. Then flip and continue cooking to desired doneness, 5-7 minutes more.
• During the last 1-2 minutes of grilling, toast pretzel buns on a cool side of the grill then smear with habanero jelly.
  4 pretzel buns, ¼ cup habanero pepper jelly
• Place each patty on a grilled pretzel bun and top with blue cheese, whiskey sautéed onions, lettuce (or a pickle!), fresh thyme and cooked bacon.
  arugula

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Nutrition

Calories: 701kcal | Carbohydrates: 14g | Protein: 30g | Fat: 54g | Saturated Fat: 22g | Cholesterol: 140mg | Sodium: 714mg | Potassium: 504mg | Fiber: 1g | Sugar: 11g | Vitamin A: 362IU | Vitamin C: 4mg | Calcium: 106mg | Iron: 3mg

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