Smash Burgers

Are you a health nut? Well I have bad news for you.... this Dinner idea will not set well with you. Nope not one bit. This entry is all about gooey greasy yumminess. This entry has criminalization that took place in butter. You may want to brace yourself before reading any further.

So now to tell you about SMASH BURGERS!!! MUHAHAHA!

Have you ever just wanted to cheat on your healthy plan? You walk... You work out... You eat healthy meals 27 out of the 31 days a month. If you do not treat yourself once and awhile that's when you end up treating yourself for a whole week and THAT is going off your healthy plan. Well this is a dinner idea that is fit for a treat night. Of course my young able to empty the fridge kids do not see it that way and giggled as I warned in my best witchy voice..." one day my pretties you too will have to plan for healthy not for OMG this is SOOO GOOD". 

Normally we cook our hamburgers on the grill and they are thick hamburgers. This meal was out of my comfort zone for these burgers are THIN and cooked inside..... but the cheese and the stacking makes them ohhh soooo Yummy and ohhhh sooo worth it!!

~ A budget note ~ Due to the thin aspect of these I was able to use only half the hamburger I normally use with our normal hamburgers. 

 I hope you enjoy.

Smash Burger Melts

• 3 lbs ground beef
• 12 hamburger buns
•  butter to caramelize onions
• 1 onion, sliced thin and caramelized
• 12 slices of cheese, your choice. I used Colby/American marble

1. In a skillet,  you will also use to cook burgers in, add your butter and caramelize the onions,when done set the onions aside.

2. Roll the ground beef into golf ball sized balls. Heat your pan back to medium high and add the meat, about 4  if you have a Large skillet.The meat will sizzle when you add it. Let them cook for one minute,  flip them over and using the back of your spatula, smash the burger flat into a thin patty. SMASH SMASH!! Let them cook for another 2 minutes. Flip once more add your cheese slices to half the patties in your pan. Place a lid on pan to help melt the cheese. After a minute take melted patty out and place on dish , place the uncheesed patty on top.

Serve with lettuce, tomato and of course your Caramelized onions.

Makes 12 double decker hamburgers.

 

I have a very large skillet. :D But we did go down to cooking only 4 at a time.

 

 

I had a couple not wanting Doubles.