Buffalo-Style Blue Cheese Stuffed Burgers
½ cup finely chopped celery
½ cup finely chopped onion
1 tablespoon vegetable oil
2 ounces Roth Buttermilk Blue Cheese
1 pound ground beef
½ cup prepared Buffalo sauce, divided
Salt and pepper to taste
4 buns
4 tomato slices
Lettuce
In a saute pan over medium-high heat, cook celery and onion in vegetable oil until slightly tender; set aside to cool.
Shape blue cheese into four equal discs each about the size of a silver dollar. Place in freezer to chill while preparing ground beef. (Cheese should not freeze, but become chilled and firm.)
In a medium bowl, combine ground beef, celery and onion. Add ¼ cup Buffalo sauce and mix until thoroughly combined. Season with a little salt and pepper. Divide mixture into fourths.
Remove blue cheese from freezer. Using your hands, wrap each cheese disc with ground beef to completely encapsulate cheese and forming into a burger shape.
Grill, broil or pan fry over medium high heat for about 10 minutes, or until cooked to your liking.
Place cooked burgers on buns and top with 1 tablespoon Buffalo sauce, a slice of tomato and some lettuce. If you're really a blue cheese lover top with a little more cheese!
Serves four.
Penny Kazmier, 2011 Cook of the Week Challenge winner