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Hamburger Salad

Cheeseburger salad with salsa and corn

Cheeseburger salad with salsa and corn
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Hamburger Salad

This salad is all about your choices. Choose a burger of beef or turkey, or choose a plant-based burger. Then add your choice of toppings. There is no limit to the interesting, delicious salads you can create.
Course: Main Course
Keyword: Dairy-Free Option, Easy–now you’re cooking, Gluten-Free Option, Make-Ahead Option, No Salt or Low Salt, Vegan Option, Vegetarian Option
Servings: 1

Note: If you are cooking for a particular style of eating, please check all of your ingredients carefully.

Many of my recipes have alternatives, and you want to choose the alternatives that fit the style you are preparing. Also, packaged goods may have ingredients you wouldn’t expect. Soy sauce may or may not have gluten. Chocolate may or may not have dairy. This means you want to check the ingredients labels on the products you will use. Also, it’s important to be aware that if you are cooking for someone with allergies or other reasons to take special care, you should avoid cross-contamination. For example, don’t use the same utensil that was used in food containing the allergen or use the same cutting board that was used for food containing the allergen.

Ingredients

  • 1-2 cups green leaf lettuce or other greens
  • meat or plant-based burger
  • your choice of toppings

Instructions

  • Put lettuce on a plate and add your choice of cold burger toppings, such as tomatoes, raw onion, pickles or avocado.
    vegetables for salad with shrimp or with tofu
  • Fry hot toppings, such as sweet red peppers, mushrooms, onions or bacon.
  • Sweet red peppers
  • Shitake mushrooms
  • Onion
  • Cook burger and add cheese, if you wish, such as cheddar, Swiss, gouda or pepper jack.
  • Place burger on salad and top with hot toppings. Add condiments, such as mayonnaise, ketchup, mustard and spicy mayo.
  • Variation: Burger with gouda cheese, shitake mushrooms, sweet red peppers and mayonnaise
    Cheeseburger salad with mushrooms and red pepper
  • Variation: Burger with cheddar cheese and fried onions
    Cheeseburger salad with cooked onions
  • Variation: Burger with cheddar cheese, corn and salsa
    Cheeseburger salad with salsa and corn

Notes

For the perfect cooked onions for a burger, cut onions into pieces.  Starting with a large onion, I like to quarter the onion and then slice each quarter into thin slices.  Cook the onion in oil on medium high heat until the onion starts to brown.  Then turn the heat to medium and cook until the onion is tender but still has texture–sort of like al dente for pasta.
Be creative with the toppings.  Pickles, ketchup and mustard may be the first to come to mind.  Keep thinking, whether you are using ingredients you have on hand or shopping for something new.  Consider using whatever cheese you have in your fridge, such as brie or goat cheese.  Consider barbecue sauce, coleslaw, grilled pineapple, or onion rings.  How about mozzarella cheese and pizza sauce on your burger?
Consider cooking extra burgers and storing them individually-wrapped in the freezer.  You can quickly heat one to add to a salad.  If using cheese, add the cheese toward the end of the reheating time.

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