Craig's Burger: Double Cheese Burger with Grilled Jalapenos and Onions, Bacon and Egg and Special Sauce!

Double Bacon Cheeseburger with Fried Jalapenos, Grilled Onions, Eggs and Special Sauce

A Burger Created by Criag  

One recent evening, I explained to Craig that I wanted to make burgers the next evening, but not just a regular old burger.  I wanted something cool to expand my culinary horizons.  So Craig started naming off things:  Jalapenos (he is the Jalapeno god), seasoned bacon, eggs, two patties, double cheese and a special sauce. That sounded fantastic, actually, so I did just that.  Here it is!  Fun to make, better to eat.  My friend Pat asked if you have to unhinge your jaws like a snake to eat it.  Do what you gotta do; it's Worth It!

Let's get to it!  

Ingredients

1 pound lean ground beef 93%

1 pound ground beef 85%

4 eggs

2 jalapenos, sliced lengthwise

1 onion, sliced in disc rounds

2 burger buns 

1/2 cup mayo

2 tablespoons Chipotle in Adobo sauce

6 slices of bacon (plus two for the chef)

salt and pepper

2 tablespoons Worcestershire sauce

two tabs butter

You will need two skillets, one large for the bacon and burgers and one for the jalapenos and onions. 

Slice the chile down the center and take out the seeds and the ribs. That's where the heat lives. Slice the two halves to make two more sliced halves that look like sheets. See below.  

 Add a tab of butter to the skillet (I used a small cast iron skillet) and get good coloration, or char on them.  Color is flavor!

Remove the jalapenos and add two more tabs of butter.  Can you imagine the flavor the onions will take on grilling them in the same skillet with the chiles? Add a little salt to the onions to make them sweat. Pepper is fine, too. 

Meanwhile, two fun tasks.  

Combine the two packages of ground beef into a large bowl.  Add two hefty tablespoons of Worcestershire sauce. Add whatever else crosses your mind, but that is all I added to the meat. Form four - six large but super flat, thin patties.  Set aside in the frig to firm up. 

Next, in a small bowl, add the mayo and the chipotle adobo sauce and stir.  Set that in the frig to allow the flavors to marry and also firm up. 

Meanwhile, in the large skillet, with a ceramic bowl nearby, fry the bacon slices. I added black pepper and dried oregano to the bacon to add flavor.  Set the bacon aside when done and 3/4 of the rendeirngs into that bowl.  Save for future use or put throw it into the garbage in a bag. 

Fry the patties for burger one in the remaining bacon renderings.  Salt and pepper the first side, then, salt and pepper the raw top side.  

Before removing, add cheese (I used Mild Tilamook Cheddar) to the cooked side when turned. Place a cover or a foil tent over the burgers and allow the cheese to melt all gooey down the sides. 

To build:  add two grilled jalapeno slivers atop the cheese.  Place a heap of caramelized onions atop the chiles.  Add the special sauce to either top or bottom the buns, which I'd toasted while frying the burgers. Add whatever condiments you prefer.  

I put the special sauce on the top bun, mayo on the bottom bun, bacon atop the onion, more special sauce, then two fried eggs atop the bacon.  The eggs were pretty small so I fried two.  If you have large eggs, one will be fine. 

And that's Craig's Burger!

Now, GO Cook Something for someone you love!  A giant burger?  This one?  I'd Love that!  Get creative during your stay in place time!  Have fun with it!  Make it together with the family!  Enjoy!

Thank You for your visit and your time!

~Martin

In-House Cook