Monster Burgers are Deliciously Scary!

Monster Burgers will definitely lift your Halloween Burgers game. Juicy ground beef patties, bacon, cheese, onion, pickles, and my spooky special sauce. Your tastebuds will jump for joy.

Big and little goblins alike will love this tasty Halloween food idea. You can even have all the ingredients out, cheese teeth, ready made eyes, and tongues. Then your hungry hoard can make and decorate their own. Halloween burger party anyone?

Not only are these Monster Burgers cute and fun, they are also a really tasty cheese and bacon burger. As far as Halloween burgers go, these guys have to be at the top of your list.

Ingredients

1. Beef Mince/Ground Beef: Use lean grass fed beef.
2. Brioche Buns: Brioche buns are a sweeter, more buttery bun. If you can't find brioche buns use your favourite hamburger buns.
3. Spooky Special Sauce: Recipe in the recipe card below. If you don't want to make sauce you can use your favourites, barbecue, ketchup/tomato, hot sauce or mayonnaise.
4. Bacon: I use maple glazed bacon rashers (bought from the supermarket), but feel free to use your favourite bacon.
5. Red Onion: Also known as Spanish onion. Thin slices of raw onion are used for this recipe. If you would prefer cooked onion, then pop them in your pan after cooking the bacon for a quick sizzle.
6. Pickle Slices: They can also be referred as pickle sandwich stackers. If you can't find them cut a large pickle into slices lengthways, or use long slices of roma/egg tomato.
7. Olive oil: For cooking the beef patties. If you don't have olive oil, use your preferred oil.
8. Salt: To season the beef patties, it is the only seasoning I use. It can be omitted if preferred, but it does act as a flavour enhancer.
9. Cheddar Cheese Slices: You can use any kind of cheese that is floppy and bends. Otherwise your monsters' teeth will stick out straight ahead and not flop down to look like teeth.

How to Make Monster Eyeballs

Easy Monster Eyes
Simply place a green olive that has been stuffed with pimento on a toothpick. This creates a very easy eye.

Green Monster Eyes
Cut a black olive down its length on one side only.
Place a small green cocktail onion inside the split black olive.

Push cocktail onion filled olive onto a toothpick. Repeat the process for the second eye.

Red Monster Eyes
Cut red cherry tomato down its length on one side only.
Scoop out pulp and seeds.
Cut black olive in half (one half per eye), and place inside the split cherry tomato, with the olive hole facing out.

Push olive filled cherry tomato onto a toothpick. Fill the olive hole with a small squirt of mayonnaise. Repeat the process for the second eye.

Orange Monster Eyes
Cut orange/yellow cherry tomato down its length on one side only.
Scoop out pulp and seeds.
Cut green olive stuffed with pimento in half.
Use the green olive half that has the pimento protruding from where the olive has been stuffed, it looks like an eyeball (discard other half of olive – or eat it).

Place inside the split cherry tomato with the pupil facing out.Push olive filled tomato onto a toothpick. Repeat the process for the

Black Monster Eyes
Cut a black olive down its length on one side only.
Cut green olive stuffed with pimento in half.
Use the green olive half that has the pimento protruding from where the olive has been stuffed, it looks like an eyeball (discard other half of olive – or eat it).

Place inside the split black olive with the pupil facing out.Push filled olive onto a toothpick. Repeat the process for the second eye.

How to Make Monster Teeth

Place cheese slices on a cutting board. Cut desired teeth shapes from the slices. You can also make cheese tongues, as seen on our green eyed monster above.

Recipe Walk Through

1. Place beef mince in a bowl and season with salt.  Using your hands work the seasoning through the mince.  Shape mince into 4 beef patties.
2. Place aside while you make monster eyes, teeth, and spooky special sauce.
3. Heat a large nonstick pan on the stove over medium heat.
4. Place bacon rashers in a pan and cook to your liking. Remove from pan, place on a plate, and cover with foil until needed.
5. Add olive oil to the pan and add beef patties to cook until they have formed a nice caramelised crust on one side.  Then flip the patties and continue cooking until cooked to desired doneness (medium/well done).
6. Remove beef patties from heat and cover with foil while toasting the brioche buns (if toasting).
7. Split brioche buns in half. Toast cut sides under a grill for a few minutes until just toasted. If you prefer your monster burger buns not toasted skip this step.

Burger Assembly

1. Spread bun base with spooky special sauce.
2. Place bacon on top of special sauce.
3. On top of the bacon add a slice of red (Spanish) onion.
4. Place the beef patty on top of the onion.
5. Add a pickle slice.
6. Carefully arrange monster teeth on top of the pickle slice.
7. Add a little more spooky sauce on top of the cheese if desired.
8. Place the brioche bun top on top of the burger.
9. Then decorate the monster burgers with eyes, ears, or wings.

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