Peanut Butter Bacon Burger
Ingredients
Directions
Ingredients
5 oz
ground beef, divided into two 2-inch balls
1 tbsp
unsalted butter
½ tsp
Lawry’s Seasoned Salt
1
Martin’s potato sandwich roll
2
bun-size pieces iceberg lettuce
Some thinly sliced red onion
Creamy peanut butter for serving
2
strips bacon, cooked however you like your bacon
Ketchup (there is only Heinz) for swiping
Peanut Butter Bacon Burger
On those occasions when the classic cocktail of hallucinogens and bourbon had me adventuring downriver and toward the bright lights and stiff, sugary daiquiris of the French Quarter, I always ended up in the sweet embrace of Yo Mama’s. It’s closed now, but this busy, dingy bar and grill sold a peanut butter and bacon burger—dressed, as we say down here—that I’d get every damn time. It sounds like a gimmick, but in fact, it’s scientifically proven that joining savory beef fat, salty cured pork, and creamy peanut butter makes everything feel right. Fuck a Tempur-Pedic—if you want comfort, make this burger.
1 burger
- Set a medium cast-iron skillet over high heat until it’s pretty hot. While the skillet’s heating up, put a beef ball between two pieces of parchment or wax paper and evenly flatten it to make a 6-inch patty. Repeat with the other ball on separate parchment paper.
- Add about ½ teaspoon of the butter to the pan and swirl it around. Lower the heat to medium, then add one of the patties and season the up-side liberally with Lawry’s (a generous ¼ teaspoon per patty).
- Cook until the first side gets a little brown (you’re not looking for a crust here), 30 to 45 seconds. Flip the patty and cook about 45 seconds more.
- Move the patty to a plate and use a roll half to wipe up the buttery drippings, leaving it for a few seconds, so it gets a little toasty. Cook the other patty the same way (the butter, the Lawry’s), but this time, stack the patty on the other patty. Use the other roll half to sop up the drippings and let it get toasty, too.
- Here’s how I build it, but no rules apply, as long as you get all the stuff between the buns: On the bun bottom, add the lettuce leaf and some onion. Add the patty stack, then some peanut butter (I go large and use 3 tablespoons, but 2 tablespoons is probably more reasonable) and the bacon (break ’em up to fit on the burger). Swipe some ketchup on the top bun, cap the burger, and eat.
