Welcome to the first Man Monday of 2013! Today’s post with this Red Robin Bleu Ribbon Copycat recipe is AWESOME!
Let’s take a look at blue cheese for a moment (often spelled “bleu”). Let me get this straight… blue cheese is cheese made from milk, and then injected with the Penicillium mold? Who the heck comes up with this stuff? Since when does mixing anything with mold suddenly make it awesome? I mean, God invented mold for a reason. If mold could talk it would say, “yo idiot, why you tryin’ to eat me? I taste terrible because if you do eat me, I’ll get you sick!” Yet, magically, if you mix it with cheese, put it on a burger, and call it a blue cheese burger, Zach is willing to fork over some hard earned cash to eat it… so weird.
Friends. I’m addicted. Every restaurant that I go to, I have to try their blue cheese burger. This venture even inspired me to make my own version several months ago. Though THAT burger was good, the very best one that I’ve ever had was at Red Robin. I find that I crave their burger pretty much a daily basis, so I made a Red Robin Bleu Ribbon Copycat recipe.
Now, as most of you (should) know, the Super Bowl is this Sunday. So I went ahead and adapted this lovely burger into a slider. Peeps. They taste SO good. I literally had six of them this last week. Granted, they are a little smaller, but still.
Red Robin Bleu Ribbon Copycat
This Red Robin Bleu Ribbon Copycat recipe might just be the best burger combination you could ever have! There is a reason it's so popular!
Ingredients
- 1 dozen dinner rolls
- 6 Tbsp blue cheese crumbles
- 6 Tbsp Heinz 57 steak sauce
- 1/4 cup mayonnaise
- 1 chipotle pepper finely chopped
- 1/2 cup onion straws
- 2 teaspoon butter
- 1 lb ground beef
- salt and pepper
- garlic salt
- lettuce
- 2 roma tomatoes
Instructions
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Cut the dinner rolls in half and set aside.
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In a small bowl, mix the blue cheese crumbles and Heinz 57 together.
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In another small, mix the mayo and chopped chipotle pepper.
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Spread about 1 Tbsp of the bleu cheese mixture onto one half of the roll and about 1 tsp of the mayo mixture onto the other half.
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Heat your butter in a small skillet until melted. Add the onion straws and stir. Cook on medium high heat for only a minute or so. These WILL burn quickly if your not careful.
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Split your ground beef into 12 equal sizes and mold into individual patties. The patties should be slightly larger than the sizes of the rolls, since they will shrink when you cook them.
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Season both sides with salt, pepper, and garlic salt to taste.
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Heat a large skillet over medium high heat and cook the patties for about 3 minutes, flipping halfway through.
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Assemble your burgers onto your dinner roll with the patty, lettuce, onion straws, and tomato. Enjoy!
I hope you enjoy this recipe. And if you are weirded out by eating moldy stuff like me, just promise me you’ll give this a try! I’m telling you, it’s incredible, and it will be the perfect addition to your Super Bowl Sunday snacks. *Go 9ers…*
-Zach
Ha ha, loved your blue cheese intro, even if I am not a fan of anything with mold in it 😉 I guess it’s a man thing, so I have to feed these burgers to mine =)
Sliders are the best and these look delicious!
You know I think bleu cheese tastes good when you are dipping hot wings in it but other than that blech. And my husband is allergic to mold and fungus so we always have to watch out for stuff like this. There’s things you would never think would taste good but they do. It’s really kind of odd.
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This is my fav burger at Red Robin- yum! Can’t wait to try these sliders! I am your newest follower!
Christi
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That looks so good! My husband loves Red Robin and I’d love to be able to get a similar taste at home. Thanks for sharing your recipe with us on A Crafty Soiree. I’m following along with you on FB, Twitter, and GFC now 🙂 And sharing your post on FB!
Sarah…you are a genius! I made these for dinner tonight and I really think we’ll be having them again tomorrow. I’ve never had it at Red Robin before. But it is DELISH!!!