My favorite meal!

I absolutely LOVE this recipe for a smashed burger with carmelized onions. Especially since I found out how to make it KETO!!!

Ingredients:

Stick of butter (salted)

1lb grass fed ground beef (80% lean works best)

Baby Bella mushrooms sliced - approx. 1/3 cup

Swerve brand brown sugar substitute - 1/3 cup

Blue cheese to taste

One large onion

Directions:

First dice up or cut up one large onion however you think it will work best for you. I usually cut mine down to thin chopped pieces. Then place a stick of butter into a large skillet on medium heat and slowly add in your onion. Let the onion begin to sweat a little before adding your brown sugar substitute. For the non-keto version you may use regular brown sugar but I have found that Swerve makes a substitute that has 0 calories and tastes EXACTLY like brown sugar. Once you have added the brown sugar into the skillet put a lid on it and let it kinda bubble a little. When it looks like the onions are getting light brown in color add your mushrooms to the mixture. If you don’t want mushrooms, you can omit them.

When the mixture seems all over a nice caramel color and even texture pull them out with a slotted spoon or slotted spatula and into a container. If you want them to stay hot I recommend a lidded glass container or covering them with foil.

Then in the same pan you used for the onion mixture remove from heat and add a tbsp of olive oil. Open the ground beef and get about a quarter of the 1lb of meat in your hands (good idea to wash your hands thoroughly before handling the meat and also after). Roll the meat in your palm and press into the shape of a patty. Lay in the pan with the olive oil and season with onion powder and thyme on both sides. Then put the patties on the stove for about 5 minutes on both sides at medium to low heat depending on how done you want your burger.

When the burgers are done load them onto a plate and top with the onion mushroom mixture and finally blue cheese.

Enjoy!!!