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Jessica Beacom
By: Jessica Beacom Updated: 8/14/21

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Banish boring burgers with these mouthwatering and insanely tender Grilled Bacon Burgers!

Grilled Bacon Burger on a white plate

Is your mouth watering yet?

Mine is. I love me a good burger piled high grilled mushrooms and onions and topped with tomato and onion – all wrapped up in a big lettuce leaf or two. And I really love a slice of bacon on top if I’m going to go all out.

But between me and you, I HATE frying bacon. Ugh. So messy.

I usually bake my bacon in the oven because it’s much tidier but that takes some planning ahead and these burgers needed to go down ASAP because I was feeling that summer vibe this past weekend. So here’s what I did instead: I added chopped raw bacon to the ground meat (I used bison from Pederson’s Natural Farms but you could use grass-fed beef, too).

Wondering if you should purchase grass-fed beef? Learn how to choose quality red meat in this post!

Grilled Bacon Burgers ingredients

Yes. I added the bacon to the burger before it was cooked. And it was crazy amazing. The burger stayed nice and tender even though I’d cooked it all the way through. And you got the smokey bacon flavor with every bite. No more trying to balance the bacon on top of the burger and strategically trying to place it so that you get a bite of burger + bacon with every bite. You do do that, right? Surely I’m not alone in this struggle.

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Grilled Bacon Burgers on a white plate with slice tomatoes and onion on the side

And look at those grill marks!

Grill marking is a little obsession of mine and these Grilled Bacon Burgers turned out gorgeous. I mean, c’mon. See those lines and itty bitty bits of bacon goodness there?

So good.

Oh! And the mushrooms and onions. Almost forgot about those. Man, those were good, too.

I love using the grill to prepare vegetables because A) I get to stand outside and cook, and B) they get such an awesome flavor and caramelization that’s hard to replicate with a frying pan.

If you don’t already have a perforated stainless steel grill pan you’ll want to get one. It’s how you keep your veggies from falling into the coals. This is the one I use:

Image of a grill pan

For this recipe I tossed the thinly sliced onions and mushrooms with avocado oil and a pinch of sea salt. Because both onions and mushrooms give off moisture when they cook they’ll take longer to get caramelized and lightly charred on the edges than the burgers will to cook. Therefore, I grill the vegetables first then remove them from the grill and cook the burgers. If your grill is large enough you can simply slide the pan to the side then add the burgers to the grill.

 

Grilled Bacon Burgers on a white plate with a pickle on the side

It’s totally your call. However you do it, just do it. Your tastebuds will thank you a million times over. Especially if you add a dallop of something cool and creamy and Whole30-friendly like some Primal Kitchen Chipotle Lime Mayo (which, sadly, I cannot eat but I enjoy listening to my hubby ‘food moan’ while enjoying it on his burger. Okay, maybe I don’t ‘enjoy’ it because I’m secretly resentful that I can’t eat eggs… but you get the idea!)

Break out the bacon and brush off the grill – it’s burger time!

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Grilled Bacon Burgers

Prep: 10 minsCook: 25 minsTotal: 35 mins
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Ingredients

  • 1 lb. ground grass-fed beef or bison
  • 4 slices Whole30-compliant uncured bacon (such as Pederson’s Natural Farms)
  • ½ tsp. garlic powder
  • ¼ tsp. black pepper
  • ½ medium yellow onion, thinly sliced
  • 8 ounces cremini or white button mushrooms, sliced
  • 1 Tbsp. avocado oil (such as Primal Kitchen)
  • Pinch of salt

Instructions

  1. Preheat grill to high heat. While grill is heating, finely mince uncooked bacon using a large knife.
  2. Place ground bison in medium bowl. Add minced bacon, garlic powder and black pepper. Mix well to distribute the bacon and spices throughout the ground meat.
  3. Divide meat mixture into 4 balls and flatten into patties ½ – ¾ -inch thick patties. Place patties on a plate in the fridge until ready to cook.
  4. Place sliced onions and mushrooms onto a perforated grill pan or into a large cast-iron skillet. Toss with oil and sprinkle with salt.
  5. When grill is hot, place grill pan on over direct heat and cook for 10-12 minutes, stirring occasionally, until vegetables are tender and slightly charred on the edges. Remove grill pan from grill and scrape grill grate if necessary.
  6. To cook burgers, place patties on grill grate and cook 5-6 minutes on each side or until desired degree on doneness. Remove patties to a clean plate and allow to rest 5 minutes before serving.
  7. Serve burgers with grilled mushrooms and onions, green leaf lettuce, sliced tomatoes and other desired toppings.

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Jessica is a Registered Dietitian Nutritionist living in Boulder, CO with her husband and two daughters. She's been raising backyard chickens for over a decade. When she's not in the kitchen you'll find her mountain biking, gravel cycling, telemark skiing, and camping.

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