Saucy Spiced Fig Juicy Lucy Burgers

Instead of topping your burger with cheese, try these cheese stuffed burgers. The surprise is inside. To keep the cheese from leaking out of your Juicy Lucy burgers as they cook, make sure the ground beef is tightly sealed around the cheese before placing them on the grill. If you can see any cheese, it will find its way out of the burger!

Saucy Spiced Fig Juicy Lucy Burgers

Why top your burgers with cheese when you get grill cheese stuffed burgers instead? Also known as juicy lucy burgers, ours have tender morsels of figs.

Course Entrees

Keyword Juicy Lucy Burgers

Servings servings

Calories 556kcal

Ingredients

1 ½ pounds ground beef
4 ounces sharp cheddar cheese cut into cubes or short batons
1 cup Orchard Choice or Sun-Maid California Mission Figs sliced
Salt and freshly ground black pepper to taste
1 cup Fig BBQ Sauce divided
Hamburger buns lettuce, tomato to garnish

Instructions

Heat the grill to medium-high (400F).
Divide the ground beef into four equal portions.
Form one portion of the ground beef into a loose sphere. Make a dent in the middle with two fingers, then put 1 ounce of cheese and some of the sliced figs into the well. Pull the edges of the ground beef over the cheese and figs, enveloping them completely in the ground beef. When the cheese and figs are encased in the meat, gently flatten the bundle into a burger, taking care to keep the cheese and figs inside. Repeat with the rest of the ingredients to form the remaining three burgers.
Grill the burgers, brushing with fig barbecue sauce on both sides, until cooked through to your liking, about 15 minutes for medium.
Serve the burgers garnished with lettuce, tomato and more fig barbecue sauce.

Notes

Recipe by Erika Kerekes of Not Ketchup

PRO TIP: To keep the cheese from leaking out of your “Juicy Lucy” burgers as they cook, make sure the ground beef is tightly sealed around the cheese before placing them on the grill. If you can see any cheese, it will find its way out of the burger!

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