Our Blackened Half Pound Burger is a big ½ lb. burger slathered with our “Smoked Garlic Sauce” as a binder for the seasoning. Then, seasoned with Zatarain’s Blackened Seasoning and a nice coat of coarse ground black pepper.

We love cooking with smoky garlic and black pepper and this was A BIG Juicy Burger with most basic cooking ingredients.  Then with our “Smoky Garlic Pepper Mayo” and a “Kiss of Smoke” we were in “Big Burger” Heaven…

Patti and I have set one night a week just for us. It’s our date night. We usually put something special on our Wood Pellet Grill/Smoker but sometimes we cook inside. We always eat outside on our patio where it is very comfortable with a rainforest theme.  Wood Pellet Patio Heater, little lights, candles, lanterns and surround sound. We enjoy a little wine, or strawberry margaritas using frozen strawberries for ice, good food, music and sometimes a dance or two…

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Garlic Lovers, With a Kiss of Smoke

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Link for Our “Smoky Garlic Pepper Mayo”

Link for Our “Smoky Garlic Sauce”

Prep Time: 5 minutes
Cook Time: 10 minutes
Grill: Gas Grill
Pellets: BBQPelletsOnline

Backyard BBQ
A Gas Grill Recipe 

Ingredients: Blackened Half Pound Burger

• 2 lbs. lean ground beef 85/15 (4 patties)
• Zatarain’s Blackened Seasoning
• Coarse ground black pepper
• Smoked Garlic Sauce (Ours, see link)
• Sliced cheese, use your favorite
• “Smoky Garlic Pepper Mayo” (Ours, see link)
• Bacon, to taste
• Grilled Onions
• Buns & toppings of choice

Backyard BBQ
A Gas Grill Recipe 

Cooking Directions: Big Mouth Burger

Form into four ½ lb. patties and rub them with the garlic sauce to bind your seasoning onto the meat. Then season.

Preheat your Grill Grates and light your Wedgie for that ”Kiss of Smoke”.

When your Grill Grates are screaming HOT (500* 260c) place your patties on for about 5 minutes per side with a quarter turn around 2 minutes. The last minute or so of your cook add the cheese. Your cooking times will vary a bit by the size of your patties and the griddle temp.

When the meat reaches an internal temperature around 160* (72c) pull it off, cover it and let it rest for 5 to 10 minutes before serving. U.S.D.A. safe is 165* (74c). Keep in mind that the meat will continue cooking for another 5 to 10 degrees after you pull it off the grill. I use a Maverick ProTemp Instant Read Thermometer for checking meat temps.

Note: I get a lot of questions about the kind of pellets you can use with a recipe. Keep in mind that a recipe is just an outline. Some you need to follow closely like when you are making bread, but most you can do anything you can dream, our favorite way to cook. Feel free to mix and match the pellets until you find a combination you really like. Also, you are only smoking at temps less than 250 degrees (122c), anything higher is cooking and there will not be much if any smoke, so it does not matter what kind of pellet you are using.

Backyard BBQ
A Gas Grill Recipe 

 

 

Backyard BBQ
A Gas Grill Recipe 

 

 

Backyard BBQ
A Gas Grill Recipe 

Backyard BBQ
A Gas Grill Recipe 

About our Recipes

We do our recipes on our patio where we have a lineup of grills, including Monument, Green Mountain, Uuni Wood Fired Pizza Oven, Sawtooth, Louisiana, Royall, Memphis, Traeger pellet grills, Char Griller side box smoker, Saber, Charmglow, Char-Broil, The Big Easy, Lodge Sportsman’s, Brinkman and Weber. I call it our “Wall of Grill”. Our grilling styles are healthy and low fat and will fit pelletheads, gas, natural wood and even charcoal purists. Almost any of our recipes can be done on any kind of good BBQ.

The important thing to keep in mind is TIME & TEMPERATURE. You can do our recipes on any grill, even some of them in the oven or crock pot, but, then you lose all the flavors you get from cooking outdoors. But sometimes it does rain.

Remember that a recipe is simply an outline; it is not written in stone. Don’t be afraid to make changes to suit your taste. Take it and run with it….

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Ken & Patti

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