French Onion Burgers

When time is tight there is nothing easier than a skillet meal like these pan fried burgers. This recipe from CampbellsKitchen.com uses a can of French Onion Soup to enhance the flavor of the traditional cheeseburger. The recipe for the Frozen Cherry Salad was posted on 12/30/2013 and I cheated with the baked beans and opened a can of our favorite steakhouse beans. Blessings...

Recipe:

1 lb. ground beef
1 can (10 1/2 ounces) Campbell's Condensed French Onion Soup
sliced cheese of choice
4 hamburger or sandwich buns

1. Shape the beef into 4 patties
2. Heat a 10-inch skillet over medium-high heat. Add the burgers and cook until well browned on both sides, about 5 minutes per side. Remove the burgers from the skillet. Pour off any fat.
3. Stir the soup in the skillet and heat to a boil. Return the burgers to the skillet. Reduce the heat to low. Cover and cook for a minute or two until desired doneness. Top each burger with cheese and allow to melt. Serve the burgers on the buns with the soup mixture for dipping.

Note: I put the cheese inside very lean (4%) beef. This way the beef doesn't dry out and the cheese doesn't melt off and end up in the pan or if your grilling, down in the coals. I also topped the cooked beef patties with some of the soup mixture rather than having soggy buns. This worked great for us.

Yield: 4 burgers
Prep: 5 minutes
Cook: 15 to 20 minutes