Smash Burger Tacos
Why make the difficult choice between a burger or a taco. When you combine them you get the best of both worlds, so everybody's happy!
Equipment
- kitchen scale
- griddle or large skillet
- large spatula
Ingredients
- 16 oz ground beef
- salt & pepper
- 16 slices American cheese
- 8 street taco flour tortillas
- 1 cup lettuce, shredded
- 2 tomatoes, diced
- ½ red onion, thinly sliced
- ½ cup burger sauce
Instructions
- Divide ground beef into 8 two ounce meatballs. Use a kitchen scale so you get evenly sized pieces of beef. Set aside.
- Prepare burger sauce.
- Prepare produce. Shred lettuce, dice tomatoes, slice red onion. Set aside.
- Heat a grill or large skillet over medium high heat.
- Once grilll is hot place a meatball on the hot grill and use a heavy duty spatula to "smash" the ball into a flat, really thin patty. Keep pressing until the patty is the size of the flour tortilla.
- Season beef patty generously with salt and pepper.
- Top the patty with a slice of cheese.
- Top with a tortilla and press the tortilla into the beef patty and slice of cheese on the grill.
- When beef patty is cooked through and crispy along the edges, about 2-3 minutes, then flip it over.
- Top with another slice of cheese. Continue to cook for another 1-2 minutes to melt cheese.
- Move off heat and keep warm while you repeat the process to make another burger.
- Once cheese is soft and melty, transfer the taco burger to a plate and top it with shredded lettuce, diced tomato, sliced red onion and a drizzle of burger sauce.
- Serve immediately.