Quick and Easy Pizza Burgers

Our family's favorite pizza burger recipe. Recipe modified 10/02/07.

• Ready In: 30 mins
• Yields: 16 pizza burgers

Ingredients

• 1  lb  extra lean ground beef (95%, do not fry in advance)
• 1  teaspoon oregano
• 1⁄2 teaspoon  garlic salt
• 1⁄2 teaspoon  celery salt
• 1⁄2 teaspoon  onion salt
• 1⁄2 pint  pizza sauce (I use Homemade Canned Pizza Sauce or 7 ounces Ragu Pizza Quick Sauce)
• 8  hamburger buns, plain inexpensive white buns work the best
• 16  slices mozzarella cheese

Directions

1. Preheat your oven to 350 degrees.
2. Mix together all ingredients from ground beef through pizza sauce.
3. Separate the halves of the hamburger buns, placing each half face-up on a baking sheet.
4. Spread the meat mixture on each of the hamburger bun halves. (I have found the fastest way to do this is using Pampered Chef's medium scoop and dividing the meat mixture between the bun halves; then, using the back of a large soup spoon, smooth the meat mixture evenly over the bun.).
5. Top each with a slice of mozzarella.
6. Bake for 20 minutes or until the cheese is golden and bubbly.