Gourmet Stuffed Burgers & Hamburger Buns

Ingredients

• 2 pounds ground beef
• 1/2 Cup chopped onion
• 1/4 Cup Ketchup
• 2 garlic cloves, pressed
• 1/2 tsp salt
• 1/4 tsp pepper
• 6 slices cheese
• 4 strips of bacon, crisply cooked, drained & crumbled
• your favorite burger toppings!

1. In a bowl, mix onion, ketchup, garlic, salt, and pepper and beef.
2. Form into 12 round patties, about 1/2 inch thick, fold cheese into quarters and place on half of the patties, top with bacon and remaining patties.
3. Seal well, forming 6 stuffed burgers.
4. Grill 11-14 minutes for medium doneness or till meat is no longer pink. 
5. Enjoy yummy burgers.

Hamburger Buns in 30 minutes

(I actually cut this recipe in half for our family of 5 and it still made a ton)

Ingredients:

• 3 1/2 Cups warm water
• 1 cup oil (i use applesauce)
• 3/4 Cup sugar (or 1/2 C honey or 3/4 C stevia)
• 6 T yeast
• 1 T salt
• 3 eggs, beaten
• 10 1/2 C white or wheat or mixture of flour

1. Mix first 4 ingredients and let rest 15 minutes. It should get spongy and bubbly.
2. Add remaining ingredients and mix.
3. Knead for 5 minutes, adding flour if needed.
4. Pre-heat oven to 425 
5. Roll out to 1/2" thick and i like big buns, so i use a plastic bowl to shape mine. you can use a ring from a wide mouth jar for children size buns.
6. Let rise for about 10 minutes then bake 10-15 minutes.

Review 

This was TJ's request for his "last meal" before he got his tonsil's out. (unfortunately he came down with the flu the day before and the surgery had to be postponed)  I didn't add bacon to ours, well, because i didn't have any, and it was fu-REEZ-ing so I didn't grill our burgers either.  I just cooked them in our skillet but remembered as I was almost done with he process that I could have cooked them on our griddle...  But the burgers were still super delicious. 

This was my first time using the buns recipe. The flavor was great, but they were pretty thick. We DID just eat them from the oven, so I don't know if that had anything to do with it, needs some tweaking, but Showing GREAT promise :)

Acknowledgements

The stuffed burgers recipe is from pampered chef, and the buns recipe I think is from raising olives... but I will get back to you on that :)