Bleu Cheese Bacon Brioche Burgers

This juicy burger combines 4 of my favorite B words: bleu cheese, burger, brioche, and BACON. The caramelized onions don’t hurt either.

It’s Memorial Day Weekend, which, aside from it’s actual, patriotic purpose, also means BBQs, a three-day weekend, and the start of summer. We decided to kick off this wonderful weekend with dinner on the back porch. Dan does all the grilling, so I focused on the toppings inside while he cooked the burgers. With that type of teamwork, dinner was done in no time.

These burgers pack a serious punch of flavor with a hefty amount of bleu cheese and a hint of Worcestershire sauce, but the brioche buns help to calm the powerful flavors.

I think I was inspired for this burger by one of my favorite meals ever. I was just barely 17 years old on a family vacation camping and hiking through Yellowstone and Sequoia National Parks (among others on that trip) and we stopped in a small town for a night in a hotel. We all got the chance to shower and put on non-hiking clothes to go out to eat. We had been eating lunchmeat sandwiches and camp dinners for a few days, and I ordered a salad with steak, bleu cheese, caramelized onions, candied pecans, and a balsamic vinaigrette.  I was in love. Ever since, I’ve been attracted to anything that combines beef, bleu cheese, and caramelized onions.

I mean seriously. Just look at how juicy that burger is.

I think the key to a tasty burger is good beef. Not the kind that’s $1.99/pound at a supermarket. Go to a butcher. Get the real stuff. And it’s really not that much more expensive. We’re incredibly luck to have a butcher around the corner, and it makes all the difference. Butchers often have pre-made burger patties too, if you want a shortcut (just be sure to add some salt and pepper to both sides.)

Bleu Cheese Bacon Brioche Burgers

• Author: Sarah
• Prep Time: 10 minutes
• Cook Time: 30 minutes
• Total Time: 40 minutes
• Yield: 4 servings 1x

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Ingredients

• 1 lbs ground beef
• salt and pepper
• 3 yellow onions, sliced thin
• 1 tbsp. olive oil
• 2 tbsp. butter
• 1 tsp. Worcestershire sauce
• 1 c bleu cheese, crumbled
• 4 tbsp. sour cream
• 8 slices bacon, cooked
• 4 brioche buns, sliced in half and toasted

Instructions

1. Preheat grill on high heat.
2. Heat a medium skillet over medium-high heat and add oil and butter. Add thinly sliced onions and cook, stirring frequently, on medium-low heat for 20 minutes. When almost finished cooking, add 1/4 tsp Worcestershire sauce.
3. Mix 1/2 cup of bleu cheese with sour cream and remaining 1/2 tsp Worcestershire sauce.
4. Using your hands, add salt and pepper to ground beef and create 4 equally sized patties. Sprinkle both sides with a bit more salt and pepper. Cook patties over high heat, about 6 minutes per side until they reach an internal temperature of 155.
5. Assemble burgers starting with bottom bun then bleu cheese spread, burger, sprinkle remaining bleu cheese, bacon, caramelized onions, then top bun.