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Patty Melt Recipe

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Ingredients:  
Ingredients:  
8 slices sourdough bread
4 Tbs. butter, softened
4 Tbs. mayonnaise
1 lb. 80/20 ground beef
1 tsp. onion powder
1 tsp. garlic powder
2 tsp. salt, divided
¼ tsp. pepper
1 tsp. Worcestershire sauce
8 slices swiss cheese

Caramelized Onions:
1 Tbs. butter
1 Tbs. olive oil
2 yellow onions, peeled and thinly sliced
salt to taste

Directions:
Directions:
Caramelize onions:
1. Heat the butter and olive oil in a medium non-stick skillet set over medium heat.
2. Add the onions to the pan and sauté until golden and caramelized, stirring every once in a while, not too often. This will take between 45-60 minutes. If you like your caramelized onions on the sweeter side, add 1-2 tsp brown sugar. Add salt to taste. If your onions are browning too quickly, turn the heat to medium low and add water to deglaze the pan 1 tablespoon at a time until they stop burning and start to caramelize again.

Patty Melt:
1. In a small bowl mix the softened butter and mayonnaise together until combined. Set aside.
2. In a medium mixing bowl, mix together the ground beef, onion powder, garlic powder, 1 teaspoon salt, pepper and Worcestershire. Form the meat mixture into 4 patties roughly the same shape of your slice of bread but a little bigger than the bread (they will shrink down when cooked and fit the bread perfectly) and sprinkle with remaining salt.
3. Wipe out the pan used for the caramelized onions, or grab a second pan and heat it over medium heat. Cook the beef patties on both sides until no longer pink in the middle.
4. Butter each piece of sourdough with 1 tablespoon of the butter/mayonnaise mixture.
5. Wipe out the pan again and place it back over the heat on medium-low. Place 1 slice of Swiss cheese on each piece of bread (on the dry side, not the buttered side). Top each piece of cheese with a beef patty. Divide the onions between the sandwiches and top with a 2nd cheese slice.. Top each sandwich with the remaining bread slices butter side up.
6. Cook until golden brown and crisp, and until the cheese is melted. Carefully flip each sandwich over and repeat the cooking until golden brown and crips step. Remove from the pan and slice in half. Serve immediately.

Number Of Servings:
Number Of Servings:
4
Preparation Time:
Preparation Time:
1 hr 10 min

 

 

 

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