Wednesday, July 18, 2007

what's cooking wednesday - caesar burgers

What is summer without hamburgers? They are, arguably, the perfect barbecue food. I have to admit they are pretty high up on my favourite foods list. Normally I just buy the premade frozen burgers, but this summer I've been attempting to make my own. There are countless burger recipes out there and I've been lending my hand to those that are a bit more exotic than the egg and bread crumb variety.

Caesar burger


Caesar Burgers

1 lb ground beef
1/4 cup grated parmesan cheese
2 cloves of garlic, minced
4 mozzarella slices
2 cups torn romaine lettuce
1/4 cup creamy caesar dressing
4 hamburg buns

Preheat barbecue to medium heat. Mix meat, 3 tbsp of the parmesan cheese and the garlic together. Shape into four patties.

Grill six minutes on each side or until burgers are cooked through. Top with cheese slices. Continue grilling for 1 minute or until cheese begins to melt.

Toss lettuce with 2 tbsp of dressing and 1 tbsp of parmesan cheese. Spoon evenly onto bottom halves of the bun. Top with patties and remaing 2 tbsp of dressing. Cover with bun tops and serve.

Recipe Notes: Please don't tell the recipe police, but I used baby spinach instead of romaine. Only because the romaine was looking a little gross at the grocery store. Also I had a grated cheese blend in the fridge so I used that in place of the mozza slices. This was a great, very flavourful burger. Highly recommend.

Mike's score: 4/5
Shan's score 4.5/5
Abby's score: after two bites Mom, I don't like this.*

Still hungry?

roasted garlic potato salad at Auntie Dar's Life (Darlene let me try this the other day. Was so very good!)
pesto alla genovese at bleeding espresso...
key lime cupcakes at Piacere
stuffed zucchini at virtually there



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2 comments:

Karen said...

Looks good. Yeah, Emily said the same thing after only one bite of the zucchini.

qualcosa di bello said...

beef...it's what's for dinner! after i saw the photo. OMG, looks sooooo good to this carnivore!