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These chorizo burgers with crispy onion straws are the perfect big-mouth burger. It is topped with BBQ fry sauce, jalapeños, and American cheese.
Burgers are my jam. I always make them in the summer, but I stick to the more typical grilled burger. You know, the one – grilled with cheese and then topped with lettuce, onion, and tomatoes.
But it’s fall now, and it’s time to bust out of that easy summer burger mode.
Now it’s time to get crazy and give our burgers a little more zing.
Lately, I have been obsessed with chorizo (I’m not kidding. OBSESSED!), so I wanted to make a burger that gave me the rich fattiness of beef but with the spicy chorizo flavor.
So that means I took them both and gave them a big ol’ mix.
That’s right. This burger is 50% ground beef and 50% flavor-packed chorizo. I may have added a little diced onion and American cheese because I’m a rebel.
I could have stopped there, but let’s not be silly. I decided to go out and create a BBQ fry sauce, PLUS spicy crispy fried onion straws, AND then I topped it all with spicy pickled jalapenos.
Seriously, this burger is so full of flavor you will go crazy. If you’re rational, you would take a bun, add a cheesy-topped burger patty, and add the toppings.
But we have already established this burger is not even close to rational, so you should probably double that patty up and make this burger extreme.
Doooooooooooo it!
Also, don’t get overwhelmed by what type of cheese to use. The choice is simple – American. This is the cheese of my childhood.
My mom and I would go into the store together and rush to grab a number at the deli counter. Lines were always intense (especially on Sunday nights!), so getting your number and being ready to yell your order when it was time was important.
Since I was the lucky one in charge of helping my mom grocery shop, I got to be the one to pick out the cheese for the week.
Of course, I was a kid of great choice, so I picked white American cheese. Not only is it great on sandwiches, but it rocks on burgers and as a sneaky midnight cheesy snack.
Looking for more burger recipes? Try my chicken souvlaki burger, smoked blue cheese patty melt or my open faced bbq chicken burger.
Chorizo Beef Burger with Crispy Onion Straws
Ingredients
For burgers:
- 3/4 pound 80/20 ground beef
- 3/4 pound fresh chorizo sausage, casings removed
- ½ cup small diced yellow onion
- 1/3 cup chopped American cheese, finely chopped/diced
- 8 slices American cheese
- 4 pretzel buns
- BBQ fry sauce, recipe below
- pickled jalapenos
- Onion straws, recipe below
For onion straws:
- 1 large sweet onion, peeled and thinly sliced
- 2 cups buttermilk
- 1 tablespoon hot sauce
- 2 cups flour
- 2 tablespoons black pepper
- 1 tablespoon paprika
- 1 tablespoon kosher salt
- 4 cups peanut oil
For bbq fry sauce:
- 1/4 cup bbq sauce
- 1/4 cup mayonnaise
Instructions
For burger:
- Mix ground beef, chorizo, diced onion and shredded cheese and form 8 burger patties.
- Grill or fry until desired doneness and top each burger with 1 slice Deli American and let slightly melt.
- Spread bbq fry sauce on the top and bottom of your buns. Assemble your burger in the following order: burger patty, onion straws, candied jalapenos, burger patty onions straws and candied jalapenos.
For onion straws:
- Place thinly sliced onions in an 8×8 dish and top with buttermilk and hot sauce. Stir to combine and let sit for at least an hour.
- In another dish mix together flour, pepper, paprika and kosher salt, set aside.
- In a deep skillet or Dutch oven add oil and heat until 375 degrees. Keep any eye on the heat and try to keep it steady at 375. It’s ok if the heat drops a little right after you add the onions but it should bounce back.
- In several batches take a little of the onions out of the buttermilk and toss in the flour mixture to coat.
- Drop in the hot oil and fry until golden brown. Remove from the oil and place on a paper towel lined plate to drain any remaining grease. Continue until all the onions have been fried.
For BBQ fry sauce:
- Whisk together until smooth.
Nutrition
Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.
this was linked to a foodiecrush post featuring 25 epic burgers, yes very epic! I’m impressed by the scale of this but also with the chorizo addition to the ground beef, thank you for this!