Pizza burgers are a quick and easy meal that can be made with burgers, pizza sauce, and toppings like cheese and pepperoni. They can be made as a patty or sloppy joe-style sandwich, and can be toasted before being finished in the oven. Variations include using thick bread or serving as open-faced pizzas.
Pizza burgers are either a combo burger or sloppy joe, depending on the recipe. Typical toppings include cheese, peppers, and onion. Some recipes suggest toasting the sandwiches before serving to give a thin, crust-like finish to the sandwiches. Burger-style pizza burgers can be made on the grill or stovetop, with both styles being finished in the oven to melt the toppings.
When a host or hostess is challenged for time and faced with several hungry guests, pizza burgers are often a low-effort dish that gives the illusion of a well-planned meal. The basic ingredients needed to build a pizza burger are burgers, pizza sauce, and buns. Toppings include cheese, pepperoni, and other traditional pizza toppings. One of the most important decisions to make is whether or not to make sandwiches like meatballs or Joe-type sandwiches. These burgers can be made with pre-formed hamburger patties, such as the frozen kind sold by most supermarkets.
To create a patty-type sandwich, the hamburger is topped with Italian seasonings and fried or grilled as usual. When making joe-style sloppy pizza burgers, the pizza sauce is combined with the ground beef after browning it. The entire concoction is then placed on a toasted bun. The buns can be toasted using butter or olive oil lightly brushed on one side and then placed on a hot pan until golden brown. The patty can be placed on the bun and then a dollop of pizza sauce can be placed on both the bun and patty.
The burgers are topped with your desired cheese and toppings and placed on a baking sheet. The foil is placed in a hot oven to melt the cheese on the buns. Once the cheese has melted, the buns can be removed from the oven.
The freshly baked buns are reassembled and left to cool slightly. If the burgers don’t cool slightly, the meat and toppings just slide off the sandwich as soon as it’s bitten into. Variations of the recipe include placing cheese on both the top and bottom of the meat patty, serving the pizza burgers as individual open-faced pizzas, and using thick, toasted bread in place of a hamburger bun. A toaster oven or small grill can also be used to toast the sandwich and melt the cheese instead of the oven.
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