🍔 Burger Recipes
Original, tested burger recipes — each with an ingredient list, step-by-step method, pro tips, an FAQ, and a printable recipe card. New recipes are added regularly.
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Classic Cheeseburger
The perfect classic cheeseburger: juicy 80/20 beef, a real seared crust, melty American cheese, and a soft toasted bun. Simple, foolproof, and exactly right.
⏱️ 18 min · Serves 4 · Classic View recipe →🍔
Smash Burger
How to make a real smash burger with lacy, crispy edges and a deep crust. The exact technique, the right beef, and the one mistake that ruins it.
⏱️ 10 min · Serves 4 · Smash View recipe →🍔
Double Smash Burger
Two thin, crispy-edged smash patties with double cheese on a soft bun. The classic fast-food-style double, made better at home.
⏱️ 11 min · Serves 2 · Smash View recipe →🥓
Bacon Cheeseburger
A juicy beef patty, crispy bacon, and melty cheddar on a toasted bun. How to cook the bacon and burger so both come out perfect.
⏱️ 25 min · Serves 4 · Classic View recipe →🍔
BBQ Burger
A smoky BBQ burger with smoked cheddar, crispy fried onions, and tangy barbecue sauce. Built for the grill or griddle.
⏱️ 20 min · Serves 4 · BBQ View recipe →🌶️
Spicy Jalapeño Burger
A fiery jalapeño burger with pepper jack cheese, fresh and pickled jalapeños, and a cool spicy mayo to balance the heat.
⏱️ 18 min · Serves 4 · Spicy View recipe →🍄
Mushroom Swiss Burger
Juicy beef topped with buttery garlic-sautéed mushrooms and melty Swiss cheese. A steakhouse-style burger you can make at home.
⏱️ 25 min · Serves 4 · Gourmet View recipe →🧈
Garlic Butter Burger
A juicy burger finished with melting garlic-herb butter for incredible richness and aroma. Simple ingredients, restaurant-level flavor.
⏱️ 18 min · Serves 4 · Garlic View recipe →🥑
Keto Burger
A juicy bacon cheeseburger wrapped in crisp lettuce instead of a bun — rich, filling, and genuinely low-carb. No sugar hiding in the sauce.
⏱️ 22 min · Serves 4 · Keto ✅ Keto✅ Gluten-Free View recipe →🌾
Gluten-Free Burger
A classic cheeseburger built safely gluten-free — the right bun, verified condiments, and the hidden gluten sources most people miss.
⏱️ 18 min · Serves 4 · Gluten-Free ✅ Gluten-Free View recipe →🥛
Dairy-Free Burger
A rich, satisfying burger with zero dairy — avocado and a garlicky dairy-free sauce replace the cheese without losing any of the creaminess.
⏱️ 18 min · Serves 4 · Dairy-Free ✅ Dairy-Free View recipe →🍃
Paleo & Whole30 Burger
A fully compliant paleo and Whole30 burger — lettuce-wrapped, no dairy, no added sugar, and no grains, but every bit as satisfying.
⏱️ 24 min · Serves 4 · Paleo ✅ Paleo✅ Keto✅ Gluten-Free✅ Dairy-Free View recipe →🦃
Turkey Burger
A turkey burger that's genuinely juicy, not a dry hockey puck — the two ingredients that fix lean turkey, and the 165°F rule that keeps it safe.
⏱️ 25 min · Serves 4 · Turkey View recipe →🌱
Veggie Burger
A black bean veggie burger with real texture and a crust that actually sears — the oven-dried bean trick that ends mushy veggie burgers forever.
⏱️ 35 min · Serves 4 · Veggie View recipe →🍗
Crispy Chicken Burger
A crispy fried chicken burger with a buttermilk-brined thigh, a shatteringly craggy crust, and honest deep-fry technique — plus the grilled variant.
⏱️ 55 min · Serves 4 · Chicken View recipe →🍔
Sliders
Party sliders done the smart way: one sheet of beef baked under a full slab of rolls, so 12 sliders come out at once — no flipping tiny patties.
⏱️ 40 min · Serves 6 · Sliders View recipe →🧀
Juicy Lucy
A Minneapolis bar classic: American cheese sealed inside the patty instead of melted on top, so the first bite releases a molten cheese center.
⏱️ 30 min · Serves 4 · Stuffed View recipe →🧅
Oklahoma Onion Burger
Paper-thin onions smashed directly into the patty as it sears, caramelizing into the beef itself for a burger that's equal parts onion and meat.
⏱️ 23 min · Serves 4 · Onion Smash View recipe →🧅
Patty Melt
A true diner patty melt: a thin griddled beef patty, deeply caramelized onions and Swiss, all grilled inside buttery rye like a grilled cheese — no bun.
⏱️ 45 min · Serves 4 · Patty Melt View recipe →🍳
Breakfast Burger
The ultimate brunch burger: a juicy beef patty, crispy bacon, melty cheese and a runny fried egg whose yolk becomes the sauce. Breakfast and burger in one.
⏱️ 25 min · Serves 4 · Breakfast View recipe →🧀
Blue Cheese Burger
A bold, gourmet burger: pungent melted blue cheese and sweet caramelized onions on a juicy beef patty. A steakhouse-style flavor bomb, built at home.
⏱️ 40 min · Serves 4 · Gourmet View recipe →🍗
Grilled Chicken Burger
A juicy grilled chicken burger with a garlic-herb marinade and real char — the lighter, whole-muscle alternative to a fried chicken burger, cooked to a safe 165°F.
⏱️ 47 min · Serves 4 · Chicken View recipe →🫘
Black Bean Burger
A bold, Tex-Mex spiced black bean burger with real texture — cumin, chipotle and lime, topped with avocado. Vegetarian, and it actually holds together.
⏱️ 37 min · Serves 4 · Veggie View recipe →🍄
Portobello Burger
A meaty grilled portobello burger: a marinated mushroom cap with a deep balsamic-garlic char that eats like the real thing. Vegetarian, and easily vegan.
⏱️ 42 min · Serves 4 · Veggie View recipe →No recipes in that category yet.
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