Homemade beef burgers (grass fed of course) are a favourite of ours at home and McDaddy’s is on the way to replace McDonalds as a favourite for the kids (I just need to supply the burgers in a cute box and with an instantly forgettable toy and I think i’ll have that fiendish Ronald McDonald bested for good.
Anyhow, if your looking for a way to jazz up standard homemade burgers and make them a little more glamorous for entertaining or for a weekend then this stuffed burger recipe is a winner.
There are various Paleo stuffing’s you can use, all based around avocado as a base and I will give you three of my favourites but I would love it if you experimented and could kick back some ideas as I am always looking for a reason to rock some of these badboys burgers.
Homemade Stuffed Beef Burger Recipe
As ever, I try to make my all my recipes compatible with the stricter autoimmune protocol or Paleo Leper Protocol as I have taken to calling it. In most cases a bit of fiddling is enough to do that without it impacting the food but one of the fillings I suggest is not AI compatible so…. I will state that and if you are one of the lucky (non leper) Paleo or primal people then fill your boots (or fill your burger rather).
Burger Ingredients – enough for 2 Hungry Cavemen!
- 500g of grass fed beef – grass fed best but not a deal breaker!
- 1 x tbsp of dijon mustard
- 1 x tsp sea salt
- good grinding of pepper
Fillings Options
- 1 x Avocado + 2 x field mushrooms + splash of olive oil + salt & pepper (Autoimmune Protocol Compatible)
- 1 x Avocado + handful of olives + splash of olive oil + salt & pepper (Autoimmune Protocol Compatible)
- 1 x Avocado + handful of sundried tomatoes + lemon juice + splash of olive oil
Instructions
- Pre heat your oven to 200c (gas mark 6 / 400f)
- Mix up the burger ingredients by hand
- Mix up the chosen stuffing – you can mash it, or use a blender, all depends on whether you like it rustic and chunky or smooth, I go smooth on the mushroom and olive ones and I like it a bit more chunky with the autoimmune forbidden tomatoes but I will leave that one up to you
- Divide the burgers into 4 balls with 2 slightly bigger
- Take the bottom balls and make a burger and try to make a bit of an indent for your filling
- Slop your filling onto the burger leaving enough space around the edge to seal the deal
- Form your 2 smaller balls into burgers and layer them on almost like a pie lid.
- stick them on a baking tray and throw them in the oven to cook for approx 25 mins give or take 5 mins depending on how you like your beef *
On the side
Well, that depends what kind of mood I am in. Maybe another stuffed burger? Seriously, I would generally have sweet potato wedges, a simple salad and this time I chopped up an avocado with some coriander (cilantro), a splash of olive oil, the juice of one big lime and a good grinding of sea salt and pepper and did an autoimmune friendly guacamole. You can always toss a few tomatoes into this if you are feeling adventurous!
Chow down!
Well, that is a current favourite in our house and it in now way feels like we are depriving ourselves despite the audible gasps and looks of pity we get when we describe our grain, dairy, legume, nightshade, egg & nut free diet to people!
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Avocado & sundried tomato filling sounds right up my street. I’ll have to give that one a go. Great recipe!
Man, I would eat grass fed beef burgers if they were stuffed with sh… wait, not quite, but you know what I mean.
How you doing? Another UK primal Paleo blog I see, fancy a guest post from us?
Silly me. I was putting avocado on the side.
Hey, I made this again last night, it was truly awesome.
Just planning weekly menu and we’re having this on Saturday. I think it will keep the boys happy!
Enjoy! Few more recipes in the pipeline, just gotta get my flux capacitor sorted so I can bend space and time so I can fit in writing them up. :S
So happy to see some AIP-friendly recipes! There are so few gracing the interwebz yet. I made these with ground turkey and a side of carrot fries (with AIP guacamole for dipping) and they were INCREDIBLE. I will definitely be borrowing this idea and stuffing all my future burgers with anything and everything!
Hey, those carrot fries sound amazing and Guac as well! This is a favourite of ours, we have done it with meatballs as well and other kind of grass fed meat. Some more recipies coming soon when the real job gives me time to blog a bit more.