Autumn Harvest Burger with Caramelized Onion and Apple

Recipe courtesy Jennifer Spardy, Canton, OH

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Rated: 4 stars out of 5Rate itRead users' reviews (4)

RECIPE
COMMENTS & REVIEWS(4)

Cook Time:
30 min
Level:
Intermediate
Yield:
4 servings

Times:

Prep: 20 min
Inactive Prep: --
Cook: 30 min
Total:: 50 min

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Ingredients

2 tablespoons butter
2 Vidalia onions, sliced
2 Granny Smith apples, diced
2 pounds 80 percent lean ground beef
1 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon black pepper
2 tablespoons chopped fresh thyme leaves
1/2 cup Dijon mustard
1 egg
1 cup seasoned bread crumbs
4 large crusty rolls, split
4 tablespoons mayonnaise
1 cup blue cheese

Directions

Melt butter in skillet over medium-high heat. Add onions to hot pan and begin caramelizing, stirring occasionally. After 4 minutes or so, add apples to the onions and continue to cook until onions are golden brown, about 6 more minutes. Remove from heat when done.

While onions and apples are cooking, blend together in a large bowl the ground beef, salt, pepper, thyme, Dijon, egg, and bread crumbs. Be sure ingredients are well incorporated, but don't over work. Form mixture into 4 good-sized patties. (hint: If you create a concave burger, with the center thinner than the edges, when it cooks the burger won't swell up to look like a meatball, but will remain flat and patty-like)

Heat grill to medium-high heat.

Place burgers on grill and cook about 10 minutes per side, or until cooked through. As burgers are finishing (after the first flip), spread mayonnaise on both cut sides of each split roll. Place rolls on grill, mayonnaise side down, to toast for about 1 minute, or until golden.

Place each burger on the bottom half of a toasted roll. Top with about 1/4 cup of blue cheese, then with a generous scoop of the caramelized onion and apple mixture. Cover with the roll and serve.

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recipe Autumn Harvest Burger with Caramelized Onion and Apple
Kate Edgewater, MD 11-10-2008
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Really nice!
Rated: 4 stars out of 5

I agree that the portion for these was a little large. I only made 1/2 the recipe and still had way more than I needed. We... did not like the blue cheese at all. I hardly put any on my burger, but it still managed to overpower the taste. I tried both a burger with, and a burger without the blue cheese. The favorite at our table seemed to be without the cheese. Read more
recipe Autumn Harvest Burger with Caramelized Onion and Apple
Hilary Kyle, TX 03-12-2008
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Savory burger definitely for grown ups
Rated: 4 stars out of 5

All the grown ups enjoyed this burger. It's very savory with the onions, apples and blue cheese. I probably won't add the... bread crumbs next time because I didn't like the meat-loaf texture it gave the patties. All in all a really good and different burger though.Read more
recipe Autumn Harvest Burger with Caramelized Onion and Apple
Jill Louisville, CO 03-01-2008
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Huge portions!!
Rated: 4 stars out of 5

I'm giving this 4 stars for a few reasons. We really liked the burgers, but like the last reviewer, reduce the time to about... 1/2 of the recipe. My husband and I made these together and halved the recipe b/c we only wanted two burgers. Lo and behold, halving the recipe still resulted in ridiculously large portions, so we made 4 1/4 burgers instead of 2 1/2 pound burgers. Don't be afraid to be generous with the blue cheese, it tends to get drowned out in the rest of the flavors. We'll make this again.Read more
recipe Autumn Harvest Burger with Caramelized Onion and Apple
Ronnie Smiths Grove, KY 02-29-2008
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Great taste!
Rated: 4 stars out of 5

It seems strange to put onions with apples but the flavor is enhanced with the flavor of the burger. I'm not a big thyme fan... so, I only used one tablespoon and it only seemed to make it better. I'll make this one again!Read more