Filled with Bacon, Chipotle and cream cheese!

We have been having a lot of fun with Dave Hanson’s “Stufz Ultimate Burger” burger stuffers. We have tried all kinds of stuffing now and are going to post some of the best. We are very fond of bacon and chipotle, this week’s burger.

Here’s what we came up with. A 2 inch Stufz burger, weighing in at a little over a half pound after stuffing, served up on a ciabatta bun with homemade smoked garlic mayo, piled high with fresh lettuce and tomato. Gooooood Stufz…

Stufz Bacon Chipotle Burger
A Pellet Grill Recipe

• Prep Time: 20 minutes
• Cook Time: 30 minutes smoke, 10 minutes cooking
• Grill: Royall 3000 Wood Pellet Grill/Smoker
• Pellets: House Blend 60% hickory, 20% oak, 20% cherry

Bacon, sun dried tomatoes,minced onion & garlic

Ingredients: Stufz Bacon Chipotle Burger, 2 Burgers

• 1 lb. ground beef (we like a 90/10 mix when we add bacon)
• 1 Tbsp. coarse ground garlic
• 1 Tbsp. dried minced onion
• 3 Tbsp. Country Bob’s All Purpose Seasoning Sauce
• 1 tsp. coarse ground black pepper
• ½ cup sun-dried tomatoes, chopped
• 4 strips bacon, chopped
• ½ tsp. Country Bob’s Seasoning Salt

Stufz Bacon Chipotle Burger
A Pellet Grill Recipe

Ingredients: Stuffing:

• 4 oz. onion-chive cream cheese
• 3 chipotle peppers in adobo sauce
• 3 slices of bacon, chopped

 Directions: Meat

In a bowl, mix the ingredients into the meat and set aside.

Stufz Bacon Chipotle Burger
A Pellet Grill Recipe

Directions: Stuffing Mix

The cheese will be easier to work if you let it come to room temperature first. Patti uses a pair of kitchen shears to rough chop the bacon and chipotle peppers. Then, into a bowl with a few spoons of the adobo sauce. Add the cream cheese and mix well. The stuffing will get better with time so do it ahead, if possible.

Directions: Stufz the burgers

Form the pocket and fill the top with your meat

Filling the first few times can be a little tricky. Too much stuffing or meat and/or too much pressure, you’ll end up blowing it out the sides. The dogs love when that happens.

Then, add your filling to the pocket. Be sure not to overfill by going above the sides. Keep the sides clear of any filling so you get a good bond with the top piece.

I put in as much chipotle cheese filling as we could without going over the top.

These burgers were ½ pounders and you can make them smaller by cutting back on the meat. But why? These were perfect. The key we found was to take the amount of meat you want for a patty, and then take 1/3 of it out for the top.

Over A ½ pound of BEEF with Stufzing and 2 inches thick

Stufz Bacon Chipotle Burger
A Pellet Grill Recipe

Cooking Directions: Royall 3000 Wood Pellet Grill/Smoker

Open the lid and set the dial to “Smoke”, turn it on. After about five minutes you can shut the lid. Give it about 10 minutes to heat up. Patti has lined the drip pan with foil for me, it makes for easier clean up.

I used our Grill Grates tonight. So, I put them on now to let them start heating.

Place everything directly onto the grill and just let it hang out in the smoke and get happy for 30 minutes or so. Do not put your meat on the grill grates yet. They conduct heat really well and will cook your meat before it gets to pick up any flavor from the smoke.

This is referred to as “smoking”; the temperature is around 225 degrees. 30 minutes of smoking is not enough to have any cooking effect on your meat but it is enough to open the pores so that the meat can pick up all the flavor of the smoke

After 30 minutes, turn the digital control up to High 425/450 degrees and pull the meat off the grill.  When the grill comes up to temperature place your burgers on the Grill Grate for 3 minutes a side. If you want a nice looking grill char about half way through each side give the burger a quarter turn. Just beautiful…

The Royall 3000 with the Grill Grate

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 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, 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.

Stufz Bacon Chipotle Burger
A Pellet Grill Recipe

Directions: Gas Grill
Prep Time: 20 minutes
Cook Time: 30 minutes smoke, 10 minutes cook
Grill: Direct High Heat

 Preparing Grill: High Direct Heat

Preheat your grill to High heat (400-500). Add your wet hickory chips to the fire and oil the grill. A cooking spray is easiest for this. (Note: you can add your hickory directly to the grill or you can use foil smoke packets.(Two handfuls wet chips and one dry, fold foil into a packet, poke holes in it with a fork and you’re good to go.)

Preparing Charcoal Grill

Get the Grill ready, you will want your temperature of around 400-500 degrees. Remember, you are going high heat here for about 14 minutes. Bank your coals over to one side of your grill. Add your “drained wood chips” and you are good to go… Your cooking times and temps will be the same as above.

Looking Good, So Let’s Eat

Stufz Bacon Chipotle Burger
A Pellet Grill Recipe

About our Recipes

We do our recipes on our patio where we have a lineup of grills, including Royall Wood Pellet Grill/Smoker, Traeger, Char Griller side box smoker, Charmglow, Char-Broil, The Big Easy, Brinkman and Weber. I call it our “Wall of Grill”. Our grilling styles are healthy and low fat and will fit pellet heads, 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 even do 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….

Live your Passion,
Ken & Patti

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