Papa's Bacon Cheeseburger American Style

Ingredients for 4 servings:

• 4 large rolls (hamburger buns)
• 2 packs of beef (Black Angus Burger, frozen)
• 3 tomatoes
• 4 slice(s) pickled gherkin(s) (sandwich gherkins)
• 8 slices of processed cheese
• 2 shallots
• 8 slices of bacon
• 4 leaves of iceberg lettuce
• some ketchup
• some sauce (Mississippi Sweet’n Spicy Barbecue Sauce)
• some rapeseed oil
• some sugar

Instructions

Working time approx. 40 minutes; Cooking/baking time approx. 20 minutes; Total time approx. 1 hour

Wash the iceberg lettuce, tear the leaves into bun-sized pieces, and dry them. Slice the tomatoes and set aside four slices for each hamburger. Halve the long cucumber slices to make them easier to distribute on the burger. I think two cucumber slices would be too much on the burger, so I halve one. Finely dice the shallots. Pan-fry the meat in rapeseed oil for 4 minutes per side. Two minutes after turning, add two slices of processed cheese to each slice of meat to melt it nicely. While the meat is cooking, you can use a second pan and fry the bacon without oil until crispy. Once the bacon is cooked, sauté the shallots in the bacon fat until translucent, caramelize them with a tablespoon of sugar, and then set aside on a plate. Halve the hamburger buns and toast them in a toaster on setting 2.5 (Note: If the toaster is already preheated, you’ll need to use setting 2 or 1.5!). When the meat is cooked, place a slice of iceberg lettuce on the hamburger bun, then add the meat, cheese, pickles, tomatoes, onions, barbecue sauce, and a little ketchup, and finally the bacon. Fold it up and serve.