The Banquet Burger is a Toronto original, but this recipe takes it to the next level. A perfect fire-grilled beef patty, bacon, cheese, mushrooms, and grilled onions all done on the Alchemy Grill.
Fire-Grilled Bacon Banquet Burger
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Food:
Beef
Cuisine
BBQ
Serves:
1
Prep Time:
10 min
Cook Time:
10 min
A banquet burger typically is a bacon cheeseburger and has a thicker patty. It's a killer combo: bacon, cheese, grilled onions and mushrooms on a soft, Everything Bagel brioche bun. If you can't find an Everything Bagel bun at your local grocery store, you can use a regular brioche or potato bun. Having a good bun makes such a difference, and so does using the Alchemy plancha to make burgers; it gets rip roaring hot and adds a beautiful sear to your burger. Not to mention you can grill you bacon, onions, mushrooms and burger all at the same time. You'll never want to make your burgers any other way.
Chef Matt Basile
Ingredients
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8 oz ground beef
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¼ cup shredded mozzarella cheese
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4 slices bacon
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1/3 onion, sliced
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6 button mushrooms
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Canola oil
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Everything bagel brioche bun
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1 tbsp mayo
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1 tbsp mustard
Instructions
Place your onions on the plancha grill, let them cook one to two minutes, then mix. Add your mushrooms next to the onions and drizzle both with some canola oil, mix, but keep the mushrooms and onions separate.
Form your ground beef into a patty, about an inch thick. Salt and pepper both sides. Place on your plancha grill.
Add your bacon to the plancha and let it cook fully, flipping midway.
While your onions, mushrooms and bacon are cooking, let your burger sear and cook, about 3-4 minutes, and then flip and allow the burger to cook through completely, another 3-4 minutes.
As your burger cooks, add your mozzarella cheese straight to the plancha, let it start to bubble and melt and crisp up. Add your bun to the plancha to toast.
Once the bottom of the cheese is a golden brown and your burger is cooked through, flip the cheese onto the burger, then transfer your cheesy burger onto the bottom burger bun. Remove everything from the grill to build. You want your bacon to be cooked and your onions and mushrooms to be nicely caramelized.
To build your banquet burger, on your top bun, add mayo and mustard. On top of your burger pile on the bacon, grilled onions and mushrooms, close the top and enjoy.