Red-Neck Turtle Burgers

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Description

This is a GREAT kids’ favorite, whether BBQ, frying or oven prepared. This recipe fits for all flavors of hot dogs and hamburger meat. If you make smaller hamburger patties, you can put them in hamburger buns to eat. BBQ grilling works also.

Ingredients

  • 2 pounds ground beef round
  • 2 teaspoons minced fresh chives
  • ½ teaspoon salt
  • ¼ teaspoon Worcestershire sauce
  • ¼ teaspoon dry mustard
  • 4 slices sharp Cheddar cheese
  • ½ cup chopped sweet onion (such as Maui)
  • 12 regular-sized hot dogs, halved crosswise
  • 12 slices bacon, cut in half crosswise

Instructions

  1. Preheat oven to 400 degrees F (200 degrees C).
  2. Mix ground beef
  3. chives
  4. salt
  5. Worcestershire sauce
  6. and ground mustard thoroughly in a bowl; divide in fourths and make 4 thick oval-shaped burgers. Top each burger with a slice of sharp Cheddar cheese and about 2 tablespoons of chopped sweet onion.
  7. Poke 2 holes in the long ends of each burger with your fingers for the heads and tails. Insert half a hot dog into the head and tail holes
  8. letting the rounded ends of the hot dogs poke out about 1 1/2 inches. Press to secure. Poke 2 more holes on each side of the burger and insert 2 more hot dog halves on each side for legs. Cut 2 small slits
  9. about 3/4 inch long
  10. into the ends of the legs to make toes. Repeat with remaining ground beef
  11. hot dogs
  12. cheese slices
  13. and onion to make 4 turtle burgers topped with cheese and onion. If desired
  14. cut tails to small sharp points for more realism.
  15. Place 3 halved bacon slices onto a work surface
  16. sides touching. Weave 3 more bacon slices into the first ones
  17. facing 90 degrees to the first slices
  18. to make a woven bacon piece; lay the woven bacon onto a burger
  19. arranging bacon between heads
  20. legs
  21. and tails. Secure with toothpicks. Repeat with remaining bacon to make 3 more woven bacon pieces and cover remaining burgers with bacon.
  22. Place a baking rack into a large roasting pan; lay the bacon-wrapped turtle burgers onto the rack and cover lightly with foil.
  23. Bake in the preheated oven until the burgers are no longer pink in the middle and hot dog ends are browned
  24. 20 to 30 minutes. An instant-read meat thermometer inserted into the thickest part of a burger should read at least 160 degrees F (70 degrees C).

Prep Time: 30 mins

Cook Time: 20 mins

Total Time: 50 mins

Servings: 8

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