Recipe: Perfect Patty Melt

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Patty Melt. Antonis Achilleos; Prop Styling: Kathleen Varner; Food Styling: Maggie Ruggiero. Instead of the usual hamburgers, surprise everyone with patty melts for dinner tonight. The humble patty melt, found in diners across America, is experiencing a renaissance.

Patty Melt A patty melt is basically a better version of the humble burger. The patty melt recipe is truly a simple sandwich recipe that I love dearly. It holds very special memories for me. You can have Patty Melt using 4 ingredients and 3 steps. Here is how you achieve that.

Ingredients of Patty Melt

  1. 🢂 1 lb of ground sirloin or 80\20.
  2. 🢂 1 of cheese of choice.
  3. 🢂 1 of sweet onion.
  4. 🢂 4 piece of bread of choice.

You see, sometimes during the summer, I would ride along with my Daddy as he visited with. Then (not pictured because I'm an airhead). Season hamburger patties on both sides with salt and pepper. Swirl to coat bottom of skillet and add both burger patties.

step by step Patty Melt

  1. I grill these over charcoal with hickory chips. Once grill is hot I put the onion right on the coals. Don't be afraid of the char...your gonna want that..
  2. While onion cooks. Patty the meat into 8 ounce portions. Allow onion about twenty minutes and give it a turn or two. Now put those patty's on and cook to desired temp. Add your cheese and toast that bread..
  3. Remove the outer char from onion and get to that soft inner portion. Add to your patty melt and start grubbin. I also put sweet potatoes right on the coals also...makes an awesome side..

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