Stuffed Beer Burgers with Onion Chutney

This recipe is for burgers made with real beer and stuffed with cheese, all topped off with a homemade sticky onion chutney.

A big thanks goes to Gary Green for picking this recipe and taking the photos; check out his Food blog especially the homemade burger section.

Ingredients for the chutney:

• 2 red onions, sliced
• 1/2 cup of water
• 1 1/4 cups of beer
• 1/2 cup of brown sugar
• salt
• freshly ground black pepper

Ingredients for the burgers:

• 2 pounds of ground beef
• 1/4 cup of beer
• 2 tablespoons of grill seasoning
• 1/2 cup of shredded cheddar cheese
• Romaine lettuce
• 4 hamburger  buns, toasted

Make the chutney:

Put all the chutney ingredients – water, beer, brown sugar, sliced onions and seasoning – into a pan and bring to a boil.

Once it does, reduce the heat and let it simmer for about an hour or until the liquid has been reduced to approximately two cups.  Stir regularly.

When the mixture turns a little sticky, turn off the heat and transfer the chutney into a bowl to cool.

Make the beer burgers stuffed with cheese:

Mix the ground beef, beer and seasoning using your hands. Separate the mixture into 4 patties. Flatten out your patties and put some cheese at the center of each patty.

Ball up the patties so the cheese is fully covered by the meat.

You can grill the burger patties from five to six minutes on each side, or cook them in a skillet making sure the beef gets fully cooked through.

Put the cooked burger patty on top of the Romaine lettuce and spread two to three spoonfuls of the cooled onion chutney.

Hopefully you’ve got some beer left to wash this juicy burger down with.