Inside Out Bacon Cheeseburgers
Serves: 4 Prep time: 10 minutes Cook time: 20 minutes
1 pound ground beef (I like 85/15)
1/4 large onion diced
2 T Montreal steak seasoning
3 T water
1 T Worcestershire sauce
1/2 cup shredded cheddar cheese
4 slices cooked bacon
1/2 jalapeno pepper, seeded and diced (optional)
4 onion rolls
1/2 T unsalted butter
1/2 T extra virgin olive oil
1/4 large onion sliced thin
1/2 cup mushrooms sliced
S&P
Turn on your outdoor grill or you can make these on an indoor grill pan to medium high, either way turn them on so they’ll be good and hot when your burgers are ready to throw on.
Combine the first 8 ingredients in a large mixing bowl. Gently work to incorporate together using your hands. Try not to overwork the mixture, just until combined. Score the meat into fourths so everyone gets the same size burger. 
(Or if your kids are still young like mine you can make theirs smaller…and yours bigger, score!) Form each fourth into a hamburger patty and set aside.
In a small saucepan melt 1/2 T butter and 1/2 T olive oil over medium heat. Add your sliced onions and mushrooms, season with S&P and saute until soft, about 7-8 minutes, stirring frequently.
Toast your buns lightly in the toaster oven. When I took the pictures for this recipe only had 
one onion roll left because apparently my babysitter had made sandwiches the night before using my other rolls. Kind of a bummer but whole wheat english muffins work just as well in a pinch, and they are better for you. I was a really good wife and sacrificed my onion roll and gave it to the hubby…
Place your burgers on the grill and cook to your desired doneness. My hubby and I are medium rare folk but I let the kids go further to medium well. 
I make their burgers thinner so everything ends up being done around the same time anyway. I served theirs up tonight with baked beans and corn. Cooper is a big fan. 
This evening the grown ups ate it with just a salad (the boys had 2 helpings of baked beans each) and mommy even snuck in a glass of pinot grigio. Place your burgers on your buns (or muffins) and top with the grilled onions and mushrooms mixture. I like to add mayo and bbq sauce to my burger but the kids are ketchup addicts. You can slice up some tomato and lettuce if you like to serve on top of your burgers as well. Then belly up and enjoy this deliciously moist burger. You’ll never put the cheese and bacon on top of your burger again!
Meaty Morsel: You can certainly substitute lean ground turkey, turkey bacon, and reduced fat cheddar cheese to this recipe to “lighten it up” but I was in the mood for a good ol’ fashioned burger tonight.
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My husband is a big fan of bacon cheeseburgers. This seems like a great way to switch things up! Thanks for the great idea, I’ll let you know how it goes.
Loved this recipe. Delicious! Thanks!
Although my wife made this I can tell you that it was awesome.
Anyone who is a burger fan will love this.
mmmm this one made my mouth water!!! and its pretty early in the morning to want a burger lol
I constantly say I do not like bacon…but I am just in denial…YUMMY. We may try this this weekend…I have meat in the frig.
Yum! Grilling tonight and this could work well!
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Stopping by from SITS, congrats on your big day!! And can I say YUM! I can’t wait to make these, I’m practically drooling just reading the recipe. I also signed up for the recipe of the day via email, can’t wait to start getting them, have a great weekend!!
Being a vegetarian I wouldn’t eat it but I would definitely make those for my man.
We put bacon and cheese in the burger, too! I love it with gorgonzola, oh, and garlic! (But we happen to think most things taste better with garlic). I also like to use half beef and half ground lamb. Gives it a really nice flavor.
I’m glad you didn’t “lighten it up” with all that low fat stuff. Have you ever read Real Food by Nina Planck or anything by Sally Fallon or Mary Enig? You’ll never look at fat the same way again. As you can imagine, fat is a hot topic over at the Cellulite Investigation so we’ve looked into this stuff quite a bit.
Another really great sounding recipe! What could be better than a nice, juicy, bacon cheese burger?
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Oh yum! These sound so good!
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OMG that is awesome!!! I am totally going to do this this weekend. Your blog is definitely one I will be following. You have amazing recipes.
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I have a recipe for Inside Out Cheeseburgers, but I must try this one out! It looks and sounds soooo much better than the one I have. Stopping by from the SITSta-hood and wanted to say congrats on being today’s FB!! Your blog rocks!
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Yummo, I think I need to go make myself a burger for lunch now!!
I am definitely going to have to try this one. We love burgers around here and this looks like a delicious alternative, especially during grilling season.
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I’m almost drooling- those look so good!
Yum! I’ve made something similar before, but I think I want to try your recipe next time. Thanks for sharing!
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Can’t go wrong here! Delish!