Ingredients

• 4 pounds of 80% lean beef

• 5 jalapeños

• 1 block of pepper jack cheese (about 1/3 pound)

• 3 garlic cloves

• 2 shallots

• 1-1/2 tablespoons kosher salt

• 3/4 tablespoon pepper

• 2 tablespoons olive oil

• hamburger buns

• 2 pasilla peppers

Directions

Cut your jalapeños in half and remove the seeds and membrane (leave all or some of them in if you want a spicy burger).  Dice the jalapeños.  Cut the cheese into very small cubes. Peel and mince three cloves of garlic and do the same with the two shallots.

Put the ground beef in a large bowl.  Add the olive oil, kosher salt and pepper to the meat. Incorporate the ingredients that you’ve diced or minced to the meat mixture.  Mix gently with a fork, making sure all ingredients are mixed thoroughly into the ground beef.  Form your patties.  4 pounds of meat will make 12 burgers.  You can obviously adjust this downward.  I needed that many burgers, you may only need 6, so adjust accordingly.

Preheat your grill. After the grill has been heated, turn it down to medium.

Once your grill is ready, cook the burgers for 6 minutes per side for a medium-well done burger.  You can adjust your cooking time downward if you like your burger a little more red in the middle.

Earlier in the day, I sliced and charred two pasilla peppers.  I tasted this pepper befoer I charred it, and let me tell you, it was spicy!  I removed the membrane and seeds from this pepper as well.  Once I charred the pepper, it took away a lot of the heat.  I used these peppers as a topping for my burgers, along with lettuce, tomato and avocado.

Until next time, Kris