Stuffed Burgers
This is a beautiful burger, worth the work!
Whether you are grilling for a couple of people or for a bunch, this recipe works because you can prepare the burgers ahead of time and you skip melting the cheese on top at the end. After they are cooked, you can pile them all up on a serving platter without worrying about the cheese sticking together.
And I must say, these burgers are delicious even the next day cold- in a sandwich with a little mayo. So, make extra for an easy weekday meal.
Stuffed Burgers
Ingredients
Burger Butter
- 4 tbsp butter softened
- 1/4 cup chopped onion
- 1/4 cup chopped dill pickle
- 4 tbsp ketchup
- 1 tbsp yellow mustard
- 1 tbsp mayonnaise
- 1 tsp worcestershire sauce
Burgers
- 1 pkg ground beef 1 3/4lb – 2 lbs
- 4 burger buns
- sliced tomato
- iceberg lettuce
- ketchup
Instructions
- Combine burger butter ingredients and place in freezer up to one day ahead.
- Divide ground beef into 4 large (4 oz) and 4 smaller (3 oz) ball. Flatten the 4 oz balls with your hands as thin as you can.
- Place 2 tbsp of frozen burger butter in center. top with 1 slice of cheese, broken into 4 pieces.
- Flatten smaller balls so to they are big enough to cover the cheese. Place on top of cheese, pressing meat down into bottom patty. Pick up patty and shape with your hands, sealing edges.
- Grill burgers 5 minutes on one side, flip and grill additional 3-5 minutes.Toast burger buns.Slice tomato and plate with lettuce.
- Assemble your burgers and serve, maybe a little ketchup on top.And maybe some fries on the side.Enjoy!
Notes
Grilled burgers remind me of summer, and summer, of course, reminds me of the beach.
I love the beach and I love finding treasures there. I found this starfish and I thought I’d share the “story of the starfish.”
An old man walked up a shore littered with thousands of starfish, beached and dying after a storm. A young man was picking them up and flinging them back into the ocean. “Why do you bother?” the old man scoffed. “You’re not saving enough to make a difference.” The young man picked up another starfish and sent it spinning back to the water. “Made a difference to that one!” he said. (Loren Eiseley – “The Star Thrower”)
We can make a difference every day too. And God cares about each one of us and wants to make a difference in our lives too.
Therefore encourage one another and build each other up, just as in fact you are doing.
1 Thessalonians 5:11
“For I know the plans I have for you,’ declares the Lord, ‘plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.'”
Jeremiah 29:11