Name: Homemade Cheese Stuffed Burgers
Prep time: 10 min
Cook time: 15 min
Total time: 25 min
Yield: 4 burgers
Ingredients: 500 g good quality beef mince; 60 g cheddar cheese (choose your favourite strength); 1 tsp butter (about 5g); ½ tsp plain flour; 1 tbsp milk; Salt

Liven up your BBQ with homemade cheese stuffed beef burgers, quick and easy to make and really delicious.

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In my family we’re pretty traditional when it comes to barbecues – burgers, sausages and that’s about it. I’ve been making my own homemade beef burgers for a while, and whilst we love the traditional barbecue foods, I cannot resist an opportunity to try something new.

In order to keep the family happy I couldn’t stray too far away from the traditional burgers. I therefore decided to take some cheese and put it in the middle of the burger so that when you take a bite, it’s perfectly melted and oozes out.

Over the past few months, on the rare days between rain storms, I’ve been experimenting with these cheese stuffed burgers and I ended up with a bit of a dilemma… is it best to have really oozy cheese stuffed burgers that are slightly more fiddly to make, or is it better to keep them really quick and easy to make but have the cheese slightly (although not too much) less oozy?

In the end I decided that I couldn’t make up my mind so I’m sharing both versions and it’s up to you which one you go for.

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Homemade Cheese Stuffed Burgers

The cheese centre for these burgers is inspired by a Welsh rarebit topping. The cheese is already melted, along with butter and milk, which is what makes it really oozy. If you're a huge fan of Welsh rarebit you could always add a dash of Worcester sauce and a tiny taste of English mustard to transform these into welsh rarebit burgers.

Active Time 10 minutes

Cook Time 15 minutes

Total Time 25 minutes

Servings 4 burgers

INGREDIENTS

Metric - US Cups/Ounces

500 g good quality beef mince
60 g cheddar cheese - choose your favourite strength
1 tsp butter - about 5g
½ tsp plain flour
1 tbsp milk
Salt

INSTRUCTIONS

Place the minced beef into a bowl and break it up slightly, then season with salt (I use about ¼ tsp).
Grate the cheese (60g)
Add the grated cheese, butter (1tsp), flour (½ tsp) and milk (1 tbsp) to a small frying pan and cook on a low heat until everything has melted.
Divide the mince into 4 balls.
Take two-thirds of one of the balls and form it into a circle about 6cm wide. Now think back to pottery classes at school and use your thumbs to make a dent in the centre of the circle, like you're making a bowl (image 1)
Pour a quarter of the melted cheese mixture into the indent in the burger (image 2)
Form the remaining third of mince into a circle with the same width and carefully put in onto the top (image 3). Gently pinch around the edge to join the top to the base and then use your hands to form it into a circle (image 4). You must be very careful for this bit as the melted cheese can ooze out if you're too heavy handed.
Repeat until you have 4 burgers.
Cook your burgers on the barbecue or grill for about 15 minutes until cooked through, turning halfway through the cooking time.

Recipe Type: Main Course

Cuisine: American

Keyword: Barbeque

NUTRITIONAL INFORMATION

Any nutritional information shown is the estimated nutritional information per serving. Please refer to my guide to Charlotte’s Lively Kitchen nutritional information if you want to learn more about how this is calculated.