Healthy.....not so much
Bacon is all about indulgence. Adding it to beef, beef and more beef, is even better. Here is a recipe that looks good and tastes better: Turtle Burgers!
Ingredients
- 4 oz. lean beef
- 1 pack of Hot Dogs
- 1 package of Bacon
- Cheddar cheese (or any cheese of your choice)
- 1 egg white
- Spices (salt, pepper, garlic salt, Worchestire sauce)
Directions
- Start by weaving the bacon just like a basket. Cut some of the fat off the outside of the bacon if you need to in order to make it straight. Make it into a square. (5X5 strips of bacon usually work.)
- Mix the ground meat, spices and egg white together in a bowl. (The egg whites are used to help hold things together.)
- Make a thin, flat meat patty with part of the meat.
- Place the meat on the center of the bacon weave.
- Place some cheese slices on the center of the patty. Make sure there is a “crust” of burger meat around the cheese.
- Place another thinly formed meat patty on top of the cheese and form it into one meat patty. (Form the edges of the meat together- causing the meat patty to be “filled” with the cheese.)
- Fold the bacon weave over it.
- Take out three hotdogs. Make 2 cuts on both ends of two of the hot dogs (acting as the “feet”.) Cut the two hot dogs directly in half. Now you have the feet.
- With the other hot dog, cut it in half, and on one end, cut the hot dog into a point to act as the tail. The other end will be the head.
- Make holes in the bacon weave, (one each for the head, tail, and four legs), poke hot dogs into the body- embedding them into the meat by about 1/2 and inch to 1 inch.
- Use extra bacon to cover the gap and bring stray ends of bacon into the weave.
- Use a spatula to get it onto the pan.
- Put toothpicks (that have been soaking in water) into the body to secure the hot dogs and keep the bacon ends secure.
- Cook the Bacon Turtle at 400 to 450 degrees (depending upon oven)