Chipotle Burgers

Chipotle is all the craze these days. It’s being used all over from fast food chains to a multitude of different sauces and rubs that are crowding grocery store shelves. I won’t be using any chipotle rubs or sauces that have cropped up recently. For this recipe, I’ll be going straight to the source. I’m going to use chipotle peppers and the amazing adobo sauce they are canned in. This will require a trip to the Latin section at your local grocer or a Latin grocery store. Add a couple tablespoons of the adobo to cole slaw and it will be out of this world. In this case, I added some to take boring burgers into badass chipotle burgers. 

Chipotle Burgers Ingredients:

• 1 lb ground sirloin
• 1 lb ground pork
• 2 tsp adobo sauce
• 1 tsp minced chipotle peppers
• 1 tsp minced garlic
• 1 tsp coarse salt

Burger Toppings:

• 1 avocado, ripe and sliced
• 1 tomato, ripe and sliced
• 1 bunch cilantro (substitute lettuce for the folks that don’t like cilantro)
• 6 slices muenster cheese
• 6 hamburger buns
• Mayonnaise

Makes six chipotle burgers

Here’s what you’re looking for in terms of the chipotle peppers in adobo sauce. There might be multiple options on the shelf.  Make sure you get the peppers in the sauce:

Here’s one of the chipotle peppers, which is all you need for this grilling recipe (along with the sauce it is canned in which is liquid gold):

If you really want to kick it up, double or even triple the minced chipotle peppers. On the other hand, if you want to scale it back, remove the seeds. All of this is up to your personal preference. With the seeds it’s not all that spicy with just the one pepper. Chipotle has a much more well balanced smoky, sultry flavor than most chili peppers. 

Mince up the pepper, seeds and all, and mix all the burger ingredients in a mixing bowl:

Then pat out the meat into six chipotle burger patties:

Prepare the grill for two zone grilling, very hot coals on one side and none on the other, or in this case (a gas grill) turn the burners on one side and leave them off on the other side. Place the patties right over the heat, searing on each side to get a nice flavor crust:

Once they’re seared on each side and cooked through, pull to the side of the grill with no coals, or the burners are off, and place a slice of cheese on each chipotle burger and close the lid to melt:

This is a good time to slice the toppings (avocado and tomato, along with a clump of cilantro – sub lettuce for the cilantro for those folks that don’t like the cilantro):

A must for any good burger is a toasted bun, in this case, onion buns. Be careful here. Don’t step away from the grill more than 5 seconds. Those buns go from toasted to charcoal in only about twice that time:

For me, a dollop of mayo on the bottom bun, a couple slices of avocado, a slice of tomato and a clump of cilantro and the chipotle burger is done:

I cooked these Memorial Weekend, 2012, just in time for all you holiday grillers, but please don’t forget the reason for the holiday and all the soldiers serving and have served. That’s what this weekend is all about, not about chilling around the grill. Thank a vet. They’ve earned it.

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Chipotle Burgers

The best burger I've ever had

Prep Time10 minutes mins

Cook Time20 minutes mins

Total Time30 minutes mins

Course: Hamburgers

Cuisine: BBQ

Servings: 6

Ingredients

Chipotle Burger Ingredients

• 1 lb ground sirloin
• 1 lb ground pork
• 2 tsp adobo sauce
• 1 tsp chipotle pepper minced
• 1 tsp garlic minced
• 1 tsp coarse salt

Toppings

• 1 avocado ripe and sliced
• 1 tomato ripe and sliced
• 1 bunch cilantro substitute lettuce for the folks that don't like cilantro
• 6 slice muenster cheese
• 6 hamburger bun
• mayonnaise

Instructions

• Mince up the pepper, seeds and all, and mix the burger ingredients in a mixing bowl
• Pat out the meat into six chipotle burger patties
• Prepare the grill for two zone grilling, very hot coals on one side and none on the other
• Place the patties right over the coals, searing on each side to get a nice flavor crust
• Once they’re seared on each side and cooked through, pull to the side of the grill with no coals and place a slice of cheese on each chipotle burger and close the lid to melt
• While the cheese is melting, prepare the toppings (slice the avocado and tomato, as well as rinse the cilantro)
• Toast the buns over the coals
• Remove the buns and chipotle burgers from the grill and assemble with the toppings

Scott Thomas

Scott Thomas, the Original Grillin’ Fool, was sent off to college with a suitcase and a grill where he overcooked, undercooked and burned every piece of meat he could find. After thousands of failures, and quite a few successes, nearly two decades later he started a website to show step by step, picture by picture, foolproof instructions on how to make great things out of doors so that others don’t have to repeat the mistakes he’s made on the grill.

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This article was initially published on: May 26, 2012