Greedy Girl : BBQ Blue Beef burger

Burger Showdown!

If there was ever a more perfect way to have a beef burger, this would be it. The beef is juicy with the delicious blue cheese sauce, caramelized onions, BBQ lays and spinach all working in perfect harmony between two perfectly toted buns. Smash burger’s ‘New Yorker’ burger was at the top of my favorite burgers in the world list but this one right here has taken the top rank for the best beef burger ever!

This post comes early only because Tomorrow (Tuesday which is my usual post day) my brother goes in to do a knee surgery, and I’m sure I won’t have any time to do this blog post tomorrow. So here we are and here you all are getting this amazing recipe a whole day early. I made this burger about a week and a half ago. It was Jamaica’s Independence Day and I must have made at least 25 burgers. This one (and a very special one that will posted next week) were my favorites. There was just something about the flavor of this one. The fire grilled beef, sweetness from the caramelized onions, the crunchy bbq chips and the tart salty bite from the blue cheese which we literally smothered all over the burgers.

I challenge all my greedy gals n guys wait until the end of the month and have a burger party to celebrate the end of summer. Seriously! and make every single burger I have made this month , drinks some wine and let me know your favorite.

Ingredients (printable recipe)

1 lb ground beef

1 tablespoon coconut oil

1 small Onion chopped fine

3 teaspoon Salt

½ teaspoon Black pepper

Blue cheese chive sauce

2 tablespoon mayonnaise

3 tablespoon buttermilk

2 tablespoon sour cream

1 teaspoon vinegar

½ cup blue cheese

1 clove garlic

2 tablespoon chopped chives

½ teaspoon sugar

Caramelized onions

1 Onion

2 tablespoon oil/butter

1 pinch of salt

½ teaspoon sugar

water for deglazing

Topping

Spinach

Bbq lays/bbq chips

Toasted buns

Instructions

For the quick caramelized onions

Slice onions
Sauté in oil until it begins to brown stir constantly med/high heat
Sprinkle with salt and continue to stir
Once it starts to stick and brown add a little water to deglaze the pan along with the sugar
Repeat the process of deglazing when the pan has dried out and adding water and simmering
Do this until the onions have reached your desired color and consistency
Takes approximately 15 minutes
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Blue cheese sauce

Mix all the blue cheese chive sauce ingredients and set aside in the refrigerator

For the burgers

In a bowl combine ground beef, oil, chopped onion, salt and black pepper
Lightly mix to incorporate and form into 4 balls, press down each one into the desired patty shape
On a hot grill place the burger patties and cook 2 minutes per side
Wrap each loosely in foil and steam cook the patties for 5 minutes on the same grill
Toast the burger buns in a pan with butter or coconut oil
To assemble spread blue cheese sauce on the bun, followed by the burger patty caramelized onions, spinach, more sauce BBQ lays and top with the final bun.