My gosh, is this ever good. All the goodness of a juicy cheeseburger in salad form. It?s similar to a taco salad, in that it has a bunch of meat, cheese, and tomato on top of lettuce. But this is?different. It?s crazy, crazy good. You?ll want to eat the meat mixture alone right out of the skillet. You?ll wonder where it?s been all your life.
(I think it?s the pickles. Try it and see if you agree with me.)
Here?s how I make it. You?ll absolutely fall in love with it.
(Note: This recipe is adapted from this recipe on The Pampered Chef, which happens to make three of my most favorite cooking tools in the world. More on this another day.)
(This is not a paid advertisement for Pampered Chef products. Over and out and amen.)
� � The Cast of Characters: Ground beef, ketchup, yellow mustard, Dijon mustard, barbecue sauce (not shown because I?m a dork), Roma tomatoes (not shown, see note on barbecue sauce), cheddar cheese, hamburger or hot dog buns, butter, and Romaine lettuce.
� � Brown the ground beef, then drain off the fat and squirt in some ketchup.
Did you know ketchup is way underrated as an ingredient rather than a condiment?
Make this. You?ll see.
� � � Squirt in some mustard?
� � � Some Dijon or grainy mustard?
� � � And some barbecue sauce. Then stir this together and take yourself a little bite.
Delightfully sticky, sweet, weird, and wonderful.
� � � Keep the meat warm, then grab some hamburger buns. Or you can grab some hot dog buns and pretend they?re hamburger buns.
� � � Split them in half lengthwise, then slice them lengthwise a couple more times.
� � � Then cut them in the opposite direction to create about a 1-inch dice. These?ll be the croutons!
They?ll also change your life.
� � � Throw them in a skillet over medium-low heat with 1/4 stick of butter. Toss them around and cook them for the next 10 minutes or so, adding another 1/4 stick of butter every few minutes until you?ve added (and tossed in) 1 stick. Adding the butter gradually like this helps the croutons absorb them more evenly.
My word, are these croutons good.
� � � Next up, grab some dill pickle spears and chop ?em into large chunks.
My mouth squirted just looking at this photo. Just thought I?d share.
� � � Grate a bunch of cheddar cheese?
� � � Slice up some red onion?
� � � And dice up some juicy, red tomato.
� � � Oh, and you might want to tear up some lettuce?considering this is a salad and all.
� � � Now just assemble the salads! Mound some lettuce on each plate, then pile on some of the meat mixture and some of the grated cheese.
� � � Then add plenty of pickle chunks, diced tomato, sliced red onion, and lots of the buttery, toasty croutons.
� � � This is absolutely, positively delicious. I think I?d choose it over taco salad. Please don?t tell taco salads I said that.
I?m not here to hurt anyone?s feelings.
� � � Try it soon, guys?I promise you?ll love it. (Be sure to load on extra pickles. They make the salad, baby.)
Here?s the handy dandy printable.
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Ingredients
2 poundsGround Beef
1/3 cupKetchup
1 teaspoonYellow Mustard
1 TablespoonDijon Or Spicy Mustard
2 TablespoonsBarbecue Sauce
2 headsRomaine Or Green-Leaf Lettuce, Torn
8 wholeDill Pickle Spears, Cubed
4 wholeRoma Tomatoes, Diced
1 cupGrated Sharp Cheddar Cheese
1 wholeRed Onion, Sliced
4 wholeHamburger Buns
1 stickButter
Preparation Instructions
(Adapted from The Pampered Chef.)
Brown meat in a large skillet, then remove from heat and drain off the fat. Add ketchup, mustards, and barbecue sauce to the meat and stir to combine. Taste and add more of whatever you think it needs. Keep warm.
Cut hamburger buns into 1-inch cubes. Melt 1/4 stick butter in a separate skillet, then add the bread cubes and toss to coat. Toast the croutons in the skillet over low heat for about 10 -12 minutes, adding 1/4 stick of butter every couple of minutes until you've used the whole stick. (This will ensure all the croutons soak up the butter and toast nicely.)
To assemble each salad, pile torn lettuce on a plate. Pile on a good quantity of the meat mixture, then top with plenty of grated cheddar. Add diced tomato, chunks of pickles, and slices of red onion over the top, then sprinkle warm croutons all around the plate.
Are you having a New Year?s Eve get together at your house? If so, I must urge you to strongly consider making these decadent, drippy, diminutive, dreamy, and divine sliders. I made them just before Christmas and when I took my first bite, I actually heard angels singing.
They?re positively out of this world.
Here. Let me prove it to you.
� � � The Cast of Characters: ground meat, salt & pepper, butter, onion, whiskey (not pictured because I didn?t think to add it until I was in the middle of cooking the sauce), jarred jalapenos, and small buns/rolls.
� � � You can use ground beef, ground turkey, or?guess what this is? Bison! Don?t tell my cattle ranching friends.
Or my cattle ranching family.
A girl?s gotta experiment from time to time, man.
� � � Form the meat into small patties (about 12) then sprinkle them generously with salt and pepper.
� � � Fry them in two batches in a skillet of melted butter over medium to medium-high heat. You want them to be almost done in the middle without totally burning/blackening on the outside.
� � � Mmmm. Look at that beautiful spatter. It?s the stuff that messes were made of.
� � � After all the patties are cooked, remove them to a plate.
� � � Now you?ve got a skillet of butter and grease and flavor, which is wonderful?
� � � But we don?t need all of it. Pour off all but about 2 tablespoons of the grease.
� � � Then throw in the diced onions and stir them around to cook them for a couple of minutes.
� � � Wouldja LOOK at that BEAUTIFUL skillet full of FLAVOR?
� � � I was going to add the barbecue sauce right off the bat, but I decided to go with whiskey first.
� � � Stir the whiskey around to deglaze the pan and let it cook and bubble and reduce for 3 to 4 minutes, or until it?s reduced by about half.
� � � Then grab some jarred jalapenos?
� � � And throw them into the skillet. I started with a small amount but wound up working my way up to about 1/4 cup. You need at least that much to really taste the spice in the end.
� � � Next, pour in the barbecue sauce, stir it around, and reduce the heat to low.
Your kitchen smells really, really good right now.
� � � Next, return the patties to the skillet?
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� � � Flip them over to coat?
� � � And be sure to pour any juices that were left on the plate right on into the skillet.
Flavor, baby. Flavor.
� � � Now just let ?em simmer in the sauce for several minutes. If there?s any pink left in the patties, it?ll cook right off and everything will be right with the world.
You can not imagine how good this smells.
� � � Okay, so I went a little heavy on the butter. But life is nothing but a nice, long series of learning experiences.
Grill the buns on a skillet or griddle until they?re nice and golden and slightly crisp on the surface?
� � � Then retrieve individual patties?
� � � And put them on the buns.
� � � Garshk. I?m just going to sit here and stare for a minute.
� � � When you?ve got the buns loaded up, spoon extra sauce all over the tops of each one. You want to get that onion/jalapeno chunkiness on each slider.
� � � Top ?em with the other half of the buns and serve ?em up to your guests.
Warning: If you decide to have a New Year?s Eve get together?
And you decide to serve these sliders?
You will be expected to have a New Year?s Eve get together every year for the rest of your life?
Whether you want to or not.
I?ll let you make the call. I just wanted you to be informed.
Enjoy these, guys!
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Ingredients
2 poundsGround Meat (beef, Bison, Turkey)
Salt And Pepper
4 TablespoonsButter
1 wholeLarge Onion, Diced
1/2 cupWhiskey
1 cupBarbecue Sauce
1/4 cupJarred Jalapeno Slices (more To Taste)
12 wholeSlider Buns Or Dinner Rolls, Split
Preparation Instructions
Form the meat into 12 (or so) miniature patties and salt and pepper them on both sides. Melt the butter in a skillet over medium-high heat and cook the patties until just about done in the middle, approximately 3-4 minutes per side. Remove the patties from the skillet and set aside. Drain off all but 2 tablespoons of grease, then return the skillet to the stove.
Throw the diced onions in the skillet and stir to cook, about 3 minutes. Pour in whiskey (be careful if you're cooking over an open flame; turn it off momentarily to be extra careful) and stir. Allow the whiskey to reduce by half, about 2 to 3 minutes, then stir in jalapenos and the barbecue sauce.
Reduce the heat to low and place the patties in the barbecue sauce, turning to coat. Allow the patties to simmer in the sauce until everything's hot and bubbly.
Place the patties on individual buns and be sure to spoon extra sauce (with the jalapenos!) over the top of each one before topping with the other half of the bun.
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