BBQ Pork Burgers with Bacon
Just when you think pork can't get any better, my friends over at Cabot Creamery sent me a cookbook with a BBQ Pork Burgers with Bacon hamburger recipe in it, the picture in the cookbook had me drooling – simply stupendous! If you remember from a couple of months back I told you about Cabot cheese's cookbook giveaway and this is one of the recipes from “The Cabot Creamery Cookbook”. It's is a beautiful cookbook filled with delicious recipes from the farmers of the Cabot Creamery Cooperative, all featuring the cheeses of the Cabot Creamery.
One of the things I love about this Hamburger recipe is the addition of grilled onions and grilled bacon to the pork mix, adding additional moisture and flavor. The original recipe calls for Monterey Jack cheese but I cheerfully substituted some Cabot Smoky Bacon Cheddar cheese, an excellent decision on my part!
A tiny bit of Tabasco sauce was a great addition to the hamburger as well!
Prep was fast and easy, with grilling only taking 20 minutes or so.
BBQ Pork Burgers with Bacon and Cabot Smoky Bacon Cheddar recipe
First things first, get that bacon grilling!
My grilling set-up consisted of using my 21″ Weber Kettle and some Kingsford charcoal briquettes, nothing fancy but extremely efficient for making grilled hamburgers.
Place your skillet directly of the charcoal briquettes once they first get going so you'll have plenty of heat under your skillet or cook the bacon directly on the grill for even better flavor like I have done here in this video: How to Grill Bacon
Once your bacon is done, you can sauté up some onions, I used red onions for my recipe.
Then you need to set aside the bacon and onions to cool before adding this to your pork hamburger.
If you are going to grill your side dish like this corn that I grilled, now is a good time to start cooking.
You will need some Tabasco sauce and BBQ sauce.
I used my own Homemade BBQ Sauce recipe which you can get the recipe for here: How to make homemade BBQ sauce
Now mix the ground pork, grilled onions, grilled bacon, Tabasco sauce and BBQ sauce together and form into four patties.
For me, pork tends to stick to the grill more than regular ground beef hamburgers, so I oiled up my grate when it was hot.
Worked perfectly to reduce sticking!
To top everything off, I sliced up some Smoky Bacon Cheddar Cheese from Cabot Creamery, for my BBQ Pork Burgers.
A little extra BBQ sauce, lettuce, tomato, grilled corn on the cob and homemade macaroni salad finished everything off nicely!
BBQ Pork Burgers Ingredients:
(as I made it)
3 slices smoky bacon
1/2 red onion
1 lb ground pork
3 tbs plus 1/2 cup BBQ sauce, divided
1 1/2 tbs Tabasco sauce
1/2 tsp kosher salt
4 slices of Smoky Bacon Cheddar cheese
4 soft hamburger rolls
If you would like a copy of The Cabot Creamery cookbook, it is available on Amazon: The Cabot Creamery Cookbook: Simple, Wholesome Dishes from America’s Best Dairy Farms
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