Servings: 4
Ingredients:
For BBQ Sauce:
1 tablespoon olive oil
½ cup onions, chopped
1 clove garlic, minced
¾ cup ketchup
¼ cup brown sugar
¼ cup honey
2 tablespoons chipotle chiles in adobo, minced
2 teaspoons apple cider vinegar
1 ½ teaspoons Worcestershire sauce
½ teaspoon dry mustard
Salt and pepper, to taste
For Burgers:
1 ¼ pound (20 ounces) ground beef
1 tablespoon Worcestershire sauce
Salt and pepper, to taste
²/³ cup (4 ounces) Wisconsin Blue Cheese, crumbled
Olive oil
For Serving:
4 sesame seed buns
Tomato slices
Lettuce
Blue Cheese-Stuffed Chipotle BBQ Burgers
Directions:
To prepare BBQ sauce, heat olive oil in medium pan over medium heat. Add onions and cook until translucent, 4-5 minutes. Add garlic and stir until fragrant, about 1 minute. Add ketchup, brown sugar, honey, chipotle chiles, vinegar, 1 1/2 teaspoons Worcestershire and mustard. Bring to boil and simmer
20 minutes. Taste and season with salt and pepper.
In medium bowl, combine ground beef and 1 tablespoon Worcestershire sauce. Season with salt and pepper. Mix together and form into 8 thin patties. Distribute Blue Cheese evenly onto 4 beef patties. Place remaining patties on top of cheese and pinch edges to seal cheese into center. Drizzle with olive oil.
Heat grill or indoor grill pan over mediumhigh heat. Grill burgers until cooked through, 5-7 minutes on each side.
Assemble burgers on buns, top with BBQ sauce, tomatoes and lettuce.