World's Greatest Mushroom-Onion Burgers

Christmas Carol's Note:

I love a great burger... in fact even if I were mega-rich and could eat the priciest food available, burgers would still be gracing my meals more often than anything else I can think of! I've heard of $24 dollar gourmet burgers and such... but you can make this for a whole lot less money and still be in burger heaven... Another fabulous comfort food fix from "Great Food From Mom's Diner".

• Total Time: 50 mins
• Prep Time: 25 mins
• Cook Time: 25 mins

Ingredients:

Servings: 5

• 4 tablespoons butter or 4 tablespoons margarine
• 1 large onion , chopped
• 6 ounces mushrooms , chopped
• 1 ½ lbs ground sirloin
• 1 ½ teaspoons salt
• 1 teaspoon fresh ground black pepper
• 1 tablespoon A-1 Steak Sauce
• flour (for dredging)
• 2 tablespoons olive oil (preferably extra-virgin)
• 5 large kaiser rolls , lightly toasted

Accompaniments

• cheese , of your choice (optional)
• sour cream (optional)

Directions:

1. In a large, heavy skillet, melt butter or margarine.
2. Cook onions over medium-low heat until golden brown.
3. Add the mushrooms and continue cooking until mushrooms are tender.
4. Let sit until cool enough to handle.
5. In a large bowl, mix the sirloin, salt, pepper, steak sauce, and onion-mushroom mixture.
6. Form into 5 burgers.
7. In same skillet, heat olive oil over medium heat.
8. Dredge burgers in flour and cook until desired doneness, turning once.
9. Add cheese (if desired) and melt atop burger.
10. Top with a dollop of sour cream.

Reviews

[Night Owl]

Sorry I usually try to keep my reviews short but I feel the need to explain more. I was torn between 3 stars or a 4. Decided on 4 because-First, I prefer commercial patties (weird I know) but we really did enjoy the flavour & they were very juicy! Secondly I changed the quantities due to the amt. of meat I had. The burgers did not break but were slightly falling apart so I had to be careful to keep them together. May have also made them too thick. Thus the 4 stars it was probably more me than the receipe. We liked the mushrooms & onions in the burger & will try again to get them just right. Whew I'm done!! Thanks.

[lucid501]

These were very good! I scaled the recipe back and used only 1 pound of beef, and we still got 5 large burgers--we could probably have gotten 6. They are very moist and would fall apart on the grill, but pan-fried, they are delicious. We originally rated them a 4, but since eating the leftovers we've decided that this is a recipe worth 5 stars. Thanks for posting!

[Bergy]

The name of this burger is not misleading it is right up there with the best - I cooked some extra mushrooms and even with the onions in the burger added a slice of wonderful Maui onion (Love onions)-used cheddar chesse MMmm Burger heaven Thanks Christmas Carol for a super dinner