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Patty Melt

Griddled patty melts on rye — Old Fashion Patty Melt, Patty Melts with Secret Sauce, Bacon Patty Melt, The Throwback Patty Melt — for busy weeknights.

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Joe B.
Eric Steinmetzer
Bryan Lewis
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Old Fashion Patty Meltdinner

Old Fashion Patty Melt

Simple sandwich recipe the family will love!

45 min680 cal35 g proteinServes 8160 saves
Joe B.Joe B.

Ingredients

  • 1 lbs Ground Meat
  • 5 Slices American Cheese
  • 1/2 White Onion
  • 2 tbsp Onion Powder
  • 2 tbsp Garlic Powder
  • 1 tsp Salt
  • 1 tbsp Ground Black Pepper
  • 2 tbsp Butter (unsalted)
  • 4 tbsp Mayonnaise
  • slices Butter Bread
  • 2 tbsp Ketchup
  • 2 tbsp Mayonnaise
  • 1 tbsp Yellow Mustard
  • 2 tsp Worchester Sauce

Instructions

  1. 1Prep by mincing the white onion. Next, spread mayo to one side of the sliced butter bread. For the sauce, place all the ingredients into the same bowl and stir. Until a orange like consistency appears.
  2. 2Over medium-high heat add butter and the cut onions to the pan.
  3. 3Once the onion is cooked to a golden-brown, take off the stove and place into a bowl.
  4. 4Next, cook the ground meat in the same pan. Once fully cooked, drain excess fat and put cooked ground meat back into pan.
  5. 5Add garlic powder, onion powder, salt, and pepper. Stir in the cooked onion.
  6. 6Once the ground meat is fully seasoned and mixed, add slices of american cheese over the cooked and seasoned ground meat. Wait for the american cheese to melt over the cooked meat than stir the cheese in. Once the cheese is melted into the meat, stove can be reduced to a low heat.
  7. 7In another pan, toast the sandwich by placing a piece of butter bread mayo side down onto low heat pan. Place the sandwich sauce on the side of the bread facing up.
  8. 8Add the ground meat mix (optional: add another slice of american cheese). Once the bread is golden brown flip sandwich to toast the opposite side.
  9. 9Once both sides of bread are golden brown cut sandwich is half and enjoy!

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A Burger That Gets Better On Rye

A patty melt is what happens when a hamburger and a grilled cheese stop arguing. Ground beef, soft onions cooked down slow, melty cheese, and buttered rye griddled until the crust crackles — all from things you probably already have.

Cooks on Pepper reach for these on the nights when nobody wants to decide, when the ground beef is thawed and dinner needs to be hot in half an hour with one skillet to wash.

Every recipe here is a real patty melt: Old Fashion Patty Melt with American cheese and white onion, Patty Melts with Secret Sauce, a provolone-and-rye version, Bacon Patty Melt, The Throwback Patty Melt, and a Kick-Ass Patty Melt with Tangy Onion Sauce.

Quick Tips

  1. 1

    Cook the onions slow

    Give thinly sliced onions 20 to 25 minutes over medium-low in butter, stirring now and then, until deep gold. Rushing them on high just burns the edges.

  2. 2

    Use 80/20 ground beef

    The fat is what keeps the patty juicy under all that cheese. Press the patties thin and a little wider than the bread, since they shrink about a half inch.

  3. 3

    Butter the bread, not the pan

    Spread softened butter edge to edge on the outside of each rye slice so the whole crust browns evenly in 3 to 4 minutes per side.

  4. 4

    Melt with a lid

    Cover the skillet for the last 1 to 2 minutes over medium-low heat. The trapped steam melts the cheese before the bread goes too dark.

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