Burger the Hot Belly Buster Burger

This Hot Belly Buster Burger is so-called because of the ingredients that include jalapeno peppers and Tabasco sauce and its size - 1/2 pound of beef. They really are entire meals.

• Ready In: 25 mins
• Yields: 8 Burgers

Ingredients

• 4  lbs  ground chuck
• 5  fresh jalapeno peppers
• 1  egg
• 1⁄4 cup  Heinz 57 steak sauce
• 1⁄4 cup  minced  white onion
• 1  teaspoon Tabasco sauce or 1  teaspoon  your favorite  hot pepper sauce
• 1  pinch dried oregano
• 1  tablespoon Worcestershire sauce
• 1  teaspoon  garlic salt
• 1⁄4 cup  Fritos corn chips, crushed
• 8  large  hamburger buns
• 8  slices monterey jack pepper cheese
•  lettuce
•  sliced tomatoes
•  sliced onion
•  salt and pepper

Directions

1. •Preheat a grill to high heat.
2. •When the grill is ready, roast the jalapeno peppers until blackened on all sides.
3. •Place the peppers in a plastic bag to sweat and loosen the blackened skin.
4. •Rub the skin off the peppers (use disposable latex gloves), then seed and dice (leaving seeds will increase the "heat" alot).
5. •In a large bowl, mix together the ground beef, salt, pepper, egg, steak sauce, onion, hot pepper sauce, oregano, Worcestershire sauce, garlic salt and Fritos®.
6. •Divide meat mixture into 8 balls and flatten into patties.
7. •Grill patties for 10 to 15 minutes, turning once (burgers are done at 160 degrees F).
8. •Butter the hamburger buns and either place on grill or warm in oven.
9. •Remove hamburger buns and dress with lettuce, sliced tomato and sliced onion.
10. •Top each burger just before removing from grill with a slice of pepperjack cheese allowing the cheese to melt slightly.
11. •Remove each of the burgers from the grill and place on buns.