This is it, the ultimate Saturday-night-chilling-with-a-movie-burger!
I’ve got an obsession with finding and eating epic burgers. I believe it’s because I watched too many American teen movies in the 80’s, or indeed it could also stem from the fact that this is the one ‘meal’, I use the term very loosely, which Scandiman cooks for me from scratch – for me, burgers are a treat!
I found the original recipe on the amazing blog The Pioneer Woman. My version differs slightly, I omit the canned sliced mushrooms, I just cannot eat them, plus I make my own tomato sauce, or Marinara sauce, as it’s called in the original recipe.
This baby is the stuff of dreams - eat it and love me forever!
Pepperoni Pizza Burgers
What you need…
- 700 g good quality minced beef
- 300 g Italian or Spanish sausage skin removed
- 1/2 teaspoon dried oregano
- 8 slices melting cheese, I used mild Cheddar
- Pepperoni or chorizo slices (I used one large thin slice per burger)
- 8 tablespoons jarred Napolitano sauce, or make your own
- Grated Parmesan cheese
- 4 good burger buns
- Thinly sliced red onion
- 1 green pepper, sliced thick
- Few handfuls of pitted black olives, sliced
What you do…
In a large bowl, mix the minced beef, sausage meat, and dried oregano till well combined – I find squidging it with my hands the best, highly technical method I’ve come across.
Form the meat into 4 large patties, season with a little salt and plenty of black pepper.
Over a medium heat, fry the burgers on one side for a few minutes, then turn over.
Now lay 2 slices of cheese and then some pepperoni or chorizo slices on each burger.
Mmmm, Looking good, looking good…
Add onion slices, a few slices of green pepper, and a pile of black olives.
Now dollop a large spoonful of Napolitano sauce over the olives. Almost there now…!
And lay another slice of cheese over all the toppings, like a little cheesy blanket!
Now place a lid or another frying pan upside down on the pan, with hindsight I think you could even loosely tent with foil. Now leave the burger to cook through, the cheese to melt and the pepperoni or chorizo to heat through. (These burgers must be cooked through as they contain pork meat).
Now split and toast the burger buns in a frying pan with a nice big knob of butter, or of course you can toast them in a regular toaster.
Once toasted, spread both halves of roll with Napolitano sauce and sprinkle with grated Parmesan.
Lay the cooked burgers on the bottom buns, add the top buns.
Serve immediately and apply to face!
Make it, eat it, collapse for a while and then please tell me what you think!
Fantastic!!!!! I don’t really do green peppers. But they deserve an Oscar for best Supporting Vegetable in this recipe
Yes, you’re so right, red peppers all the way, but here the freshness and sharpness of the green peppers works really well, soooo good!
Yum!
lol Quite, Yum Yum YUM!
Ok you`ve sold it to me hook ,line and burger..I`m off to the super market , like, now, this instant…and drooling too.
Fabulous, let me know how you get on Pam! x
Looks delicious! Will definitely try this recipe out!
I promise you wont be disappointed Bonnie, it blew me away!
What a great way to combine the two foods! I watched a show on the Travel Channel a few weeks back where a Pizza Hut in Asia (or Africa?) made a pizza with a hamburger patty pressed into the crust of each slice, and at the tip of each piece was a tomato and lettuce. When you folded over the tip of the slice of pizza, it made a cheeseburger!
Thank you for commenting! Ohhh that sounds Yummy and really fun too!
I think this combo of burger and pizza flavours works on many levels, the first being greed, lol and why wouldn’t it, they are damn fine foods!
Cheesy and meaty are pretty hard to beat sometimes! Although I generally love the crunchy lettuce and tomatoes more than the juicy burger… I’m so strange!