Ingredients
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1 lb seasoned hamburger (I use 1 Tb Montreal Steak seasoning per pound of meat and a splash of w'shire...use your favorite)
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1 small yellow onion
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1 bell pepper (red or green)
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5 tablespoons steak sauce (I like A1 and Dugan likes Heinz 57 but whatever is your favorite)
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3 onion hamburger buns
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mustard
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pickled jalapeno pepper
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3 slices monterey jack pepper cheese or 3 slices monterey jack cheese
Instructions
- Season meat your favorite way and form three patties. Do not over work meat and make too compact or you will have meatloaf burgers. I think 1 pound of meat makes three perfect burgers.
- Lightly butter split hamburger/onion rolls and pan fry until toasted. Or you may just dry toast them if you wish without butter. (I get a wonderful jalapeño/cheddar bun from my grocery bakery).
- Chop onion and bell pepper coarsely and fry in a little oil until the onions are caramelized nicely and the bell pepper is wilted.
- Pour off excess oil and add the steak sauce and heat through and set aside in a bowl.
- Grill or pan fry hamburger patties (like Queen Bergy does!) until done to your liking.
- Heat broiler. Yes--you are reading this right-- heat your broiler!
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- Assemble your Bergy Burger.
- Spread mustard (if using it)on toasted buns. Place a hamburger patty on bottom bun and top with bell pepper/onion/steak sauce mixture. Add pickled jalapeño slices. (if you are using them) Lay a thick slice or two of pepper jack or Monterey jack cheese on top.
- Guess what? Put it under your broiler. After having made this a couple of times I find that doing this keeps the onion/pepper mixture in place while eating it and the melted cheese has a better flavor. Only broil for a minute or so. You just want the cheese to melt well and drape over the ingredients to hold them in place.
- Remove from broiler and add the top bun and serve with your favorite oven fries recipe. That's what Queen Bergy would do.