Description
Juicy lucy cheeseburgers from Minnesota deliver ultimate burger satisfaction with molten cheese sealed inside a perfectly grilled beef patty. Melted cheddar oozes from each bite, inviting you to savor this iconic Midwestern culinary creation.
Ingredients
Scale
- 1 pound (454 g) ground beef (80/20 for best flavor)
- 4 slices american cheese (or cheddar)
- 4 burger buns
- ½ tsp salt
- ¼ tsp black pepper
- lettuce
- tomato
- pickles
- grilled onions
- ketchup
- mustard
- mayonnaise
Instructions
- Preparation: Craft paper-thin ground beef discs with precision, ensuring uniform shape for optimal cheese integration.
- Cheese Placement: Quarter cheese slices and center them on half the meat patties, creating a compact central cheese core.
- Sealing: Carefully overlay remaining meat patties, using fingertips to hermetically seal edges and prevent cheese leakage, forming complete burger parcels.
- Seasoning: Liberally coat exterior surfaces with salt and freshly ground black pepper, ensuring comprehensive flavor penetration.
- Cooking: Ignite cooking surface to medium-high heat, achieving the perfect thermal environment for caramelizing exterior while preserving internal succulence.
- Grilling: Gently deposit patties onto heated surface, allowing 4-5 minutes per side to develop a robust golden crust and thoroughly melt internal cheese reservoir.
- Resting: Transition burgers to a stabilization platform, permitting internal temperature equilibration and cheese solidification for 2-3 minutes.
- Serving: Nestle burgers into toasted buns, adorning with crisp lettuce, ripe tomato slices, tangy pickles, and preferred condiment selections.
Notes
- Seal Edges Carefully: Press meat edges firmly to prevent cheese leakage during cooking, using gentle pinching technique with cool, slightly moistened fingertips.
- Temperature Control Matters: Use medium-high heat to create perfect caramelized exterior while maintaining internal juiciness without burning the meat surface.
- Cheese Selection Strategy: Choose cheeses with high melting points like American or cheddar to ensure creamy center without complete liquefaction during cooking.
- Resting Period Essential: Allow burgers to rest 2-3 minutes after cooking to stabilize internal temperature and let cheese set, preventing immediate molten cheese burn and maintaining structural integrity.
- Prep Time: 10 minutes
- Cook Time: 10 minutes
- Category: Lunch, Dinner
- Method: Grilling
- Cuisine: American
Nutrition
- Serving Size: 5
- Calories: 525
- Sugar: 3 g
- Sodium: 850 mg
- Fat: 32 g
- Saturated Fat: 15 g
- Unsaturated Fat: 13 g
- Trans Fat: 1 g
- Carbohydrates: 35 g
- Fiber: 2 g
- Protein: 28 g
- Cholesterol: 90 mg