Stuffed Bison Burgers

As the weather gets warmer, we're turning up the grill and making tasty things outside.  Burgers are a summer favorite and these are sure to hit the spot.

Ingredients:

1/2 onion, sliced

6 slices of bacon, cooked to crispy

2 TBS of shredded cheese (optional)

1 Lb of ground Bison

Directions:

In your heated frying pan, cook bacon until crispy.  Set on paper towel to soak up the bacon grease.  Drain off most of the bacon fat. Reserve about 1 TBS of it to saute the onions in.  Cook until they are nicely browned, almost caramelized.  Chop the 3 strips of bacon into small bits and then mix with the cooked onions.  (Add the shredded cheese here, if you're using it.) Keep the other 3 pieces for topping off the burgers upon assembly.  

Heat up your grill.  You want to put these burgers onto a preheated grill.  There is nothing like trying to cook on an unheated grill.  Plus this also provides for more even cooking.  Also, be sure to clean your grill, there is nothing like tasting the last thing you cooked on your current meal.

Head back inside and prepare those burgers as the grill preheats.  

Take the ground bison and sprinkle with pepper and salt to taste.  Then form about 8 slim patties. Top 4 of the patties with the onion-bacon mixture.  Top these four patties off with the additional 4 patties and crimp the 2 patties together sealing in the stuffing.  Once all four burgers are assembled, head out to the grill and place then on the grill. Once finished, take inside and assemble.

We topped these off with slices of avocado and crispy bacon and a little ketchup.  We baked up some sweet potato tots to go along with this.  These burgers would be great with cinnamon-spicy sweet potato wedges.