Fully Loaded Burger Bowls

Summertime, as we all know, is burger time. There’s nothing quite like a nice, juicy burger, hot off the grill, with all your favorite fixings – bacon, cheese, and some nice fried mushrooms.
Of course, a traditional burger also comes with one other thing: the bun. And for anyone who’s trying to steer clear of carbs, that kind of ruins the whole meal.
So for all you carb-avoiders, I’ve come up with a whole new way to enjoy burgers without the bun. Instead, you serve all the toppings in – the burger itself!
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Instead of forming the beef into patties, you shape it into a little bowl and load it up with cheese, mushrooms, and bacon. Then put those filled bowls on a baking pan and bake them under a foil tent for half an hour, so all the juices from the meat blend together with those tasty toppings. You can top these with barbecue sauce, ranch dressing, diced chives, or all three.
Here’s another plus: you don’t need to wait for nice weather so you can fire up the grill. These Fully Loaded Burger Bowls are good rain or shine!

Fully Loaded Burger Bowls
Ingredients:
2 lb extra lean beef
2.5 teaspoons Lawry’s Seasoned Salt
1 teaspoon Garlic Powder
1/2 teaspoon Black Pepper, Ground
3 teaspoon Worcestershire sauce
4 TB butter
2 cups sliced mushrooms
2 cups of cheddar cheese. shredded, divided
10 slices of bacon, cooked and diced
diced chives, bacon bbq sauce, ranch for topping
Directions:
- Mix together beef, seasoned salt, garlic powder, black pepper and Worcestershire sauce.

- On a baking sheet lined with foil, form 4 meat bowls using a clean jar or can. Set aside.


- In a medium pan, saute mushrooms with butter. Season with salt and pepper to taste. Divide into 4 equal potions.

- Fill each meat bowls with 1/4 cup of cheese, mushrooms, 2 slices worth of diced bacon, and then top with 1/4 cup of cheese.



- Bake at 350 degrees F covered with a foil tent (foil loosely coving) covering for 30 mins. Before serving, top with diced bacon, bbq sauce, ranch and diced chives.

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Fully Loaded Burger Bowls
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Ingredients
- 2 lb extra lean beef
- 2.5 teaspoons Lawry's Seasoned Salt
- 1 teaspoon Garlic Powder
- 1/2 teaspoon Black Pepper Ground
- 3 teaspoon Worcestershire sauce
- 4 TB butter
- 2 cups sliced mushrooms
- 2 cups of cheddar cheese. shredded divided
- 10 slices of bacon cooked and diced
- diced chives bacon bbq sauce, ranch for topping
Instructions
- Mix together beef, seasoned salt, garlic powder, black pepper and worcestershire sauce. On a baking sheet lined with foil, form 4 meat bowls using a clean jar or can. Set aside.
- In a medium pan, saute mushrooms with butter. Season with salt and pepper to taste. Divide into 4 equal potions.
- Fill each meat bowls with 1/4 cup of cheese, mushrooms, 2 slices worth of diced bacon, and then top with 1/4 cup of cheese.
- Bake at 350 covered with a foil tent (foil loosely coving) covering for 30 mins. Before serving, top with diced bacon, bbq sauce, ranch and diced chives.
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Do you realize that the sodium content is off the CHARTS? I’m going to make them tonight with bison, (less fat and cholesterol than beef), sautéed mushrooms, less cheese, NO bacon, topped with crispy shallots. MUCH healthier!
I loved this recipe! Only problem I had was making the bowls. Nothing I did worked, and after I cooked them, they looked just like burgers would. Just stuffed.
Wrap a strip of foil around each bowl before cooking. Holds the bowl together perfectly!
Made these the other night. They were fabulous.
We are trying not to eat so much bread/rolls but we love hamburgers so this is a great idea. Thanks
Can you make these a head of time and freeze them and then reheat in microwave or on a grill camping. We do keto and these would be awesome for camping but we don’t have an oven to initially cook them. Would this work
Would appreciate any thoughts. Thank you.
Sorry Kathy, I haven’t tried that before so I can’t say for sure. I would do a trial run before your camping trip to make sure.
I couldn’t get the bowls to keep their shape. So I did them in muffins tins. I also did them on the BBQ instead of the oven. I wish I could’ve figured out how to get them to stand up more without the tin because I would have preferred that night BBQ char flavour, they mostly tasted like meatloaf.
Have you thought of using a dash or 2 of liquid smoke or smoked paprika to get the smokey flavor? Just a thought.