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Kentucky Burger with Bourbon Onions and Pimento Beer Cheese

May 1, 2019

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Kentucky Burger with Bourbon Onions and Pimento Beer Cheese is an homage to my family and childhood memories.  From the pimento cheese combined with beer cheese to the bourbon onions and pickled okra topping everything on this burger reminds me of home.

This epic burger is part of a fan-frickin-tastic month long event, but opinions are always my own!

 

This burger is an homage to all things I love about Kentucky. Because, y’all know I’m from there right? I might live near the big city of Washington, DC, but I’m a Kentucky girl through and through. I know how to cook a country ham, make hot browns, and bake a Derby pie. I’ve even eaten where the Colonel has eaten and had his wife’s fried chicken. Best chicken ever!

 

I bleed UK blue, even though I didn’t go to the University of Kentucky. When I hear the call to post I get chills. Even singing My Old Kentucky Home brings a tear to my eye. However, I do miss those rolling blue grass hills.

 

Kentucky Burger with Bourbon Onions and Pimento Beer Cheese is an homage to my family and childhood memories.  From the pimento cheese combined with beer cheese to the bourbon onions and pickled okra topping everything on this burger reminds me of home. #BurgerMonth

 

I wanted to put everything that’s Kentucky, at least my memories of it, into one epic burger to kick off #BurgerMonth. To me, that means bourbon, pimento cheese, and beer cheese on top of this epic burger. Oh yeah, and some pickled okra, too.

 

Doesn’t that just sound divine??

 

I should probably talk to you about burger month. It’s hosted by girl carnivore and is all about the burgers!! We have XX bloggers and other burger enthusiasts joining in this month. It grows every year. And the burgers get more and more outrageous every year.

 

Kentucky Burger with Bourbon Onions and Pimento Beer Cheese is an homage to my family and childhood memories.  From the pimento cheese combined with beer cheese to the bourbon onions and pickled okra topping everything on this burger reminds me of home. #BurgerMonth

 

Anyone is welcome to join in. You simply need to have access to some social media accounts to be able to share your burger and share the giveaway. Oh! Didn’t I mention the giveaway? Yes, there’s a giveaway for some great burger related and grilling goods. Make sure you enter the giveaway.

 

And while you’re at it, head over to the monthly burger challenge. Well, it’s sort of monthly. We skip December and, well, May. For obvious reasons. I actually was giving Girl Carnivore a hard time for skipping May. I think we should do an optional December burger, too. But that’s just me.

 

Kentucky Burger with Bourbon Onions and Pimento Beer Cheese is an homage to my family and childhood memories.  From the pimento cheese combined with beer cheese to the bourbon onions and pickled okra topping everything on this burger reminds me of home. #BurgerMonth

 

This burger as meant to be shared for last month’s #BurgerMonth. I just did not get around to making it in time to share. I think another group event impeded that progress. One that involves more than just burgers. But you’ll figure that out in a few weeks time.

 

Just like this burger pays homage to my roots, the burgers I will be sharing this month pay homage to the monthly burger group. This year I am sharing burgers for all the months I missed during the burger challenge. For scheduling, timing, or ingredient reasons I just didn’t get around to making them and sharing them with the group.

 

Kentucky Burger with Bourbon Onions and Pimento Beer Cheese is an homage to my family and childhood memories.  From the pimento cheese combined with beer cheese to the bourbon onions and pickled okra topping everything on this burger reminds me of home. #BurgerMonth

 

Some of them are pretty interesting. We had some really great ingredients on the challenge list. And since this is the first year we started doing this, I can’t wait to see what ingredients we have to cook with in the coming months. I mean, marshmallows and fig and red hots? Those are just a few that challenged us this year.

 

Thankfully, #BurgerMonth is a free for all challenge. Really the only challenge is to just create an epic burger! And it doesn’t even have to be a beef burger. You can make veggie burgers, chicken burgers; you name it!! I had a cod cake burger in the works this year. It was the March challenge, I think. Don’t quote me on that one.

 

 

So, I think I should talk about this burger right here, though, don’t you?

 

The inspiration comes from many things from my childhood. Well, not exactly the bourbon. We weren’t allowed to drink bourbon when we were little. But when there was a Derby party, of course, we could try a mint julep or two.

 

Pimento cheese is not necessarily a Kentucky dish so much as it is a Southern dish. And while it wasn’t invented in the South, we sure did make it popular and come in many regional favorites. The rumor has it that farmer’s cheese, which is a predecessor of cream cheese, was mixed with Spanish pimientos in New York. It was so tasty and delicious that Good Housekeeping published a recipe in 1908. The dish spread like wildfire after that.

 

Kentucky Burger with Bourbon Onions and Pimento Beer Cheese is an homage to my family and childhood memories.  From the pimento cheese combined with beer cheese to the bourbon onions and pickled okra topping everything on this burger reminds me of home. #BurgerMonth

 

I knew nothing of this growing up. I just knew that if we went fishing, there would always be pimento cheese sandwiches. Those creamy cheese spread sandwiches made fishing worthwhile with Nana. And her pimento cheese is, hands down, the BEST you have ever tasted.

 

Next up, beer cheese!

 

Now this one I know is predominately from Kentucky if not invented there. It’s a simple mixture of sharp Cheddar cheese and beer with some garlic and onion added in for flavor. Finally, there’s a bit of cayenne added for a bit of a kick. This makes THE BEST spread for any and all soft pretzels. And no, it’s not dip consistency. At least my recipe isn’t. Mine is a spread consistency.

 

Kentucky Burger with Bourbon Onions and Pimento Beer Cheese is an homage to my family and childhood memories.  From the pimento cheese combined with beer cheese to the bourbon onions and pickled okra topping everything on this burger reminds me of home. #BurgerMonth

 

And now the light bulb has gone off, right?

 

Now you made the connection of my putting the pimento cheese and beer cheese together into one recipe and spread for this killer burger. They’re both made with cheese and my recipes has then both made into spread consistencies. Perfect to top a Kentucky burger with!

 

And, well, I think the bourbon part is pretty self explanatory. But bourbon onions might not be. Grated most put onions on their burgers, but these onions are not those onions. These are bourbon Vidalia onions.

 

Kentucky Burger with Bourbon Onions and Pimento Beer Cheese is an homage to my family and childhood memories.  From the pimento cheese combined with beer cheese to the bourbon onions and pickled okra topping everything on this burger reminds me of home. #BurgerMonth

 

You see, for many years in a row, our family would hike down 95 south to spend a week or two in Florida. And no, not Orlando. Our family vacations almost always centered around the beach of some sort. Most of the time it was St. Augustine, but not always.

 

But, we would always plan a stop through Georgia to pick up some Vidalia onions. Which, at that time, you could only get in Georgia. Now they;re shipped north every year. And every year I look at them and think fondly of all those trips south and stopping at some farmer;s market on the way down to pick them up.

 

Kentucky Burger with Bourbon Onions and Pimento Beer Cheese is an homage to my family and childhood memories.  From the pimento cheese combined with beer cheese to the bourbon onions and pickled okra topping everything on this burger reminds me of home.

 

Why not on the way back? Well, almost all of our family vacations centered around having at the last a kitchenette to book food. We planned maybe 2 dinners our, but the rest of the time we cooked dinner. Yes, even on vacation. That’s what you do when you’re vacation on the cheap or budget friendly, I should say. And quite frankly, I prefer it. Eating out all that time just tears my tongue up. I feel like it’s been on a salt lick all week when we eat out so much.

 

Yes. I realize that is more than you wanted to know. But it’s the driving force behind cooking at home 6 nights a week-ish. Yes, lately I am not motivated. But with my new job and my husband’s work schedule, I will need to be more organized. Just to I can make sure there’s something healthy -ish to eat when I get home and when he gets home. Whether he eats it or not is up to him. He’s a big boy. If he doesn’t want to eat when he gets home, that’s his choice.

 

Kentucky Burger with Bourbon Onions and Pimento Beer Cheese is an homage to my family and childhood memories.  From the pimento cheese combined with beer cheese to the bourbon onions and pickled okra topping everything on this burger reminds me of home. #BurgerMonth

 

So, there you have it. My Kentucky Burger with Bourbon Onions and Pimento Beer Cheese. I will have to confess that the pimento beer cheese is out of his world. I have no idea why I never considered combining the two before now. But, you can bet that i will be keeping this spread on hand any at all times. It’s great for sandwiches, dips for pretzels and veggies, and perfect to melt with macaroni for a killer mac n cheese.

 

Kentucky Burger with Bourbon Onions and Pimento Beer Cheese is an homage to my family and childhood memories.  From the pimento cheese combined with beer cheese to the bourbon onions and pickled okra topping everything on this burger reminds me of home. #BurgerMonth

 

Today is the first day of #BurgerMonth. I hope you follow with us this week as we all create epic burgerness that is lick your phone drool worthy!

 

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Kentucky Burger with Bourbon Onions and Pimento Beer Cheese is an homage to my family and childhood memories.  From the pimento cheese combined with beer cheese to the bourbon onions and pickled okra topping everything on this burger reminds me of home.

Kentucky Burger with Bourbon Onions and Pimento Beer Cheese

Yield: 4 burgers
Prep Time: 20 minutes
Cook Time: 50 minutes
Total Time: 1 hour 10 minutes

Kentucky Burger with Bourbon Onions and Pimento Beer Cheese is an homage to my family and childhood memories.  From the pimento cheese combined with beer cheese to the bourbon onions and pickled okra topping everything on this burger reminds me of home.

Ingredients

For the pimento cheese:

  • 2 to 4 tablespoons mayonnaise
  • 2 tablespoons finely chopped green olives
  • 4 ounces pimentos
  • 2 ounces Velveeta grated
  • 2 ounces extra sharp Cheddar cheese grated
  • 2 ounces sharp Cheddar cheese grated

For the beer cheese:

  • Pinch cayenne pepper to taste
  • 1/4 to 1/2 cup beer
  • 1/4 cup cottage cheese
  • 3 ounces Cheddar cheese cubed
  • 2 tablespoons grated onion
  • 1 clove garlic chopped

For the bourbon onions:

  • 4 tablespoons bourbon
  • 4 tablespoons butter
  • 2 cups thinly sliced onions

Remaining Ingredients:

  • 20 ounces ground beef
  • 4 hamburger buns
  • 4 to 6 pickled okra thinly sliced lengthwise

Instructions

To make the bourbon onions:

  1. Heat a skillet over medium-high heat and melt 2 tablespoons butter to the pan. Add the onions and sauté, stirring occasionally until they begin to soften and start to brown.
  2. Stir in 1 tablespoon bourbon and continue to sauté the onions.
  3. As they dry out and start to add 1 tablespoon of bourbon at a time until they’re a nice, brown color.

To make the pimento beer cheese:

  1. Combine all pimento cheese ingredients in a mixing bowl with a spoon until combined.
  2. Combine the cottage cheese with the Cheddar cheese, onion, and garlic in the bowl of a food processor. With the processor running, slowly pour the beer into the cheese mixture until smooth and creamy. Stir in the pinch of cayenne.
  3. Stir together the beer cheese and pimento cheese spreads. Refrigerate until ready to assemble your burgers.

To make the burgers:

  1. Divide the ground beef into 4 portions and form into patties. Grill 7 to 10 minutes on each side depending on thickness until the burgers reach 5 degrees short of the desired internal temperature. Remove from heat and rest until ready to assemble.
  2. Place the buns on each of 4 plates. Please a few pickled okra halves on the bottom bun. Top with a burger, pimento beer cheese, and bourbon onions. Then place a few more pickled okra halves on top and dive in!
© Chris Campbell
Cuisine: American / Category: Sandwich

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Comments

  1. Sue Lau says

    June 2, 2019 at 6:51 am

    I don’t usually love pickles on a burger but that okra! What an amazing idea.

    Reply
    • Chris says

      June 2, 2019 at 3:27 pm

      Thanks! Okra is a different kind of pickle.

      Reply
  2. Eileen Kelly says

    May 16, 2019 at 8:59 pm

    You have more than paid respect to Kentucky with this burger! I love the double cheese and those bourbon onions!

    Reply
    • Chris says

      June 2, 2019 at 3:47 pm

      Thank you! That cheese spread is so good…

      Reply
  3. Michele says

    May 12, 2019 at 1:32 pm

    Beer cheese with pimento cheese…. and bourbon onions? You are talking right to my burger loving heart! I just mentioned it to my husband as I was reading this and he’s like…. can we have that for dinner? Id say thats a winner when we can agree on a burger!

    Reply
    • Chris says

      June 2, 2019 at 3:50 pm

      Thank you! I hope you enjoy it as much as I did.

      Reply
  4. Kelsey says

    May 9, 2019 at 10:55 pm

    I love all of the flavors and textures you were able to combine in this burger. Great addition to #BurgerMonth!

    Reply
    • Chris says

      May 10, 2019 at 7:47 pm

      Thank you!

      Reply
  5. Aaron says

    May 9, 2019 at 6:09 am

    This looks so good Christy! I might need to start making beer cheese for everything ?

    Reply
    • Chris says

      May 10, 2019 at 7:48 pm

      I LOVE beer cheese! I make a batch every now and then to nibble on. It’s a great spread for sandwiches, burgers, dip with veggies, pretzels. You name it!

      Reply
  6. Lauren Schmidt says

    May 6, 2019 at 9:24 pm

    I love the story behind this burger! It is so cool that you chose something so meaningful to your childhood! Plus the burger sounds like it tastes AMAZING!

    Reply
    • Chris says

      May 6, 2019 at 10:15 pm

      Thank you! So much of my love of food comes from family. It was only fitting.

      Reply
  7. Kelly from Wildflour's Cottage Kitchen says

    May 6, 2019 at 7:49 am

    This is right up my alley, too!! LOVE any kind of pimento cheese, and that OKRA! Yes!!!

    Reply
    • Chris says

      May 6, 2019 at 10:16 pm

      Pimento cheese is always a fave in our house. Thank you!

      Reply
  8. Claudia Lamascolo says

    May 6, 2019 at 7:38 am

    what an awesome looking burger I just want to sink my teeth into this beauty! I love everything in it and its the perfect burger to get that grill going!

    Reply
    • Chris says

      May 6, 2019 at 10:17 pm

      Thank you! It was oh so delicious.

      Reply
  9. Karen Dawkins says

    May 5, 2019 at 10:12 pm

    That burger sounds incredible. We have a huge tub of pimento cheese in the fridge right now! I think it’s time to up that game and make this recipe. Wish I had seen it yesterday for Derby Day.

    Reply
    • Chris says

      May 10, 2019 at 7:48 pm

      It would have been PERFECT for Derby Day! I may make them next year…

      Reply
  10. Hannah Lewis says

    May 5, 2019 at 2:37 pm

    Oh my goodness, this looks amazing!! I loveeee pimento cheese on anything.

    Reply
    • Chris says

      May 10, 2019 at 7:49 pm

      Right?? It’s so good. I sneak spoonfuls every now and then. Don’t judge. LOL

      Reply
  11. Ann from Sumptuous Spoonfuls says

    May 5, 2019 at 10:13 am

    What an awesome tribute to your homeland! That pimento beer cheese sounds freaking ah-mazing, and the bourbon onions! I’m afraid I might be drooling on my keyboard …

    Reply
    • Chris says

      May 10, 2019 at 7:51 pm

      I do that often. No shame. The cheese was awesome. SO addictively versatile.

      Reply
  12. Nicole says

    May 4, 2019 at 8:28 am

    Just wow… this burger is literally my jam! I love everything about this… both of those cheeses (especially that amazing pimento cheese which I am slightly addicted to) and then those incredible bourbon onions. Wow… this burger blows it out the water!

    Reply
    • Chris says

      May 10, 2019 at 7:51 pm

      Thank you! That cheese spread has so many purposes. It’s one to keep on hand all the time.

      Reply
  13. kita says

    May 3, 2019 at 9:05 am

    I feel like this may be the year of the southern burger – and I am totally digging it.

    Reply
    • Chris says

      May 10, 2019 at 7:52 pm

      There are so many good southern flavors. Totally digging all of them this year.

      Reply
  14. Jennifer says

    May 3, 2019 at 9:00 am

    You had me at Bourbon!

    Reply
    • Chris says

      May 10, 2019 at 7:52 pm

      Right? That’s what I said!

      Reply
  15. Jennifer Osterholt says

    May 3, 2019 at 8:47 am

    This burger looks so unique and delicious! Love it!

    Reply
    • Chris says

      May 10, 2019 at 7:52 pm

      Thank you!

      Reply
  16. Lauranne says

    May 2, 2019 at 6:17 pm

    Where is the rest of the recipe?

    Reply
    • Chris says

      May 10, 2019 at 8:01 pm

      It was there at one point… Thank you! It’s back now.

      Reply
      • Lauranne says

        May 19, 2019 at 7:17 pm

        Thank you! Haven’t had your bourbon burger before and it looks absolutely incredible! Of course I had a sad face when I couldn’t see the whole recipe lol! I will be making this very soon!

        Reply
        • Chris says

          June 2, 2019 at 3:43 pm

          I hope you enjoy it!

          Reply
  17. Deanne says

    May 2, 2019 at 3:06 pm

    This combo sounds amazing! Bourbon AND pimento cheese? Be still my southern lovin’ heart!! 😉

    Reply
    • Chris says

      May 10, 2019 at 8:02 pm

      Right? Pimento BEER cheese!

      Reply
  18. Wanda Baker says

    May 1, 2019 at 10:53 pm

    Loves me some Maker’s Mark! I really need to visit Kentucky and eat my way through all of it. I’m totally hungry after reading your post. What a fantastic burger!

    Reply
    • Chris says

      May 10, 2019 at 8:03 pm

      Thank you! While you’re there, hit the Bourbon trail!

      Reply
  19. Karly says

    May 1, 2019 at 10:37 pm

    I need this burger in my life, ASAP. It looks so mouthwatering delicious!

    Reply
    • Chris says

      May 10, 2019 at 8:06 pm

      It was. So so good. You’re gonna need a bib and a few paper towels though.

      Reply
  20. Hezzi-D says

    May 1, 2019 at 7:00 am

    Those cheeses sound amazing! I’m totally sending this burger to my brother. He was in Kentucky last weekend for pre-derby activities and I know he’d love this burger (of course, so would I!)

    Reply
    • Chris says

      May 1, 2019 at 8:55 pm

      How exciting! I have never been to a Derby. But had many a Derby party at our house.

      Reply

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