Beef and Gorgonzola Burgers
What's more fun than putting blue cheese on top of a burger? Stuffing it inside a burger! This recipe for beef and Gorgonzola burgers topped with tomato, onion, and arugula comes from The Bon Appétit Fast Easy Fresh Cookbook. Seal the edges of the patty tightly if you don't want the cheese to leak out; otherwise, enjoy your cheese-oozing patty.
Beef and Gorgonzola Burgers
- makes 2 -
Adapted from The Bon Appétit Fast Easy Fresh Cookbook by Barbara Fairchild.
Ingredients
12 ounces ground chuck
2 ounces Gorgonzola cheese or other blue cheese
Vegetable oil
4 1/2-inch-thick slices country white bread
2 large tomato slices
4 thin slices red onion
1/2 bunch arugula
Procedure
Shape beef into four 3-inch-diameter patties. Form cheese into two 1 1/2-inch rounds, place cheese atop two beef patties. Top each with another beef patty, sealing at edges. Sprinkle burgers with pepper.
Prepare barbecue (medium-high heat) or preheat broiler. Brush barbecue rack with oil. Grill bread slices until lightly toasted, abut 1 minute per side; place on plates. Grill burgers to desired doneness, about 4 minutes per side for medium. Place burgers on 2 bread slices. Top with tomato, onion, arugula, and another bread slice.
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8 Comments:
I know that cheese-stuffed burgers aren't always popular but I have no objectivity when it comes to blue cheese. I have enjoyed blue cheese stuffed in a burger patty before and I see no reason not to try it again. I have to draw the line at the bread though. Give me a nice fluffy-soft bun. Can you hear my tummy growl?
Didn't you try a blue cheese-stuffed burger recently? I remember the autopsy shot resulted in cheese loss.
holdthemayo at 7:53PM on 12/26/08
"What's more fun than putting blue cheese on top of a burger? "
Leaving it off!
Nick Solares at 10:01PM on 12/26/08
At the Rogue Brewery in Newport, Oregon they serve an appetizer called Blue Balls. Kobe meat balls with blue cheese mixed in the beef. A hot sub made with those would be excellent. The 3Bs, Beer, Blue and Beef!
beersnob at 5:26AM on 12/27/08
Blue Cheese on a burger is awful. Blue cheese in a burger is something worse.
zEli173 at 8:35AM on 12/27/08
This must be a Paula Dean inspired recipe
gaffer at 10:21PM on 12/27/08
A half-ounce of blue cheese per serving, at approximately 50 calories and 4 g fat per serving depending on the particular cheese, is hardly the stuff of clogged arteries and deep-fried nightmares that people associate with Paula Deen. A slice of American cheese is 45 cal/4-5 g fat. Aside from that, blue cheese-stuffed burgers were the craze in the '70's, if my mom's old recipe clippings are any indication.
@beersnob...Vive the 3B's!
holdthemayo at 12:27AM on 12/28/08
@holdthemayo....I agree, Hold The Freakin' Mayo!!!! Hold it in a locked box at the bottom of a closed uranium mine. Word the BLUE!!!
beersnob at 5:31AM on 12/28/08
Love the blue cheese! The only thing this burger needs is a side of this:
http://www.eatandletdie.com/gorgonzola-mac-and-cheese-ball
absolutlahmi at 7:33PM on 02/12/09