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Recipe: star spangled cheeseburger

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Star spangled cheeseburger serving suggestion

star spangled cheeseburger

Ingredients

  • 2 pounds ground beef
  • 1/4 cup regular or reduced fat mayonnaise
  • 1/4 cup honey mustard
  • 8 hamburger buns, split
  • TOPPINGS
  • romaine lettuce, tomato slices

Directions

Combine mayonnaise and mustard. Cut star shapes from cheese with cookie cutter.

Lightly shape ground beef into eight 1/2-inch thick patties. Place patties on grid over medium, ash-covered coals. Grill, covered, 8 to 10 minutes (over medium heat on preheated gas grill, covered, 7 to 9 minutes) until instant-read thermometer inserted horizontally into center registers Serve in buns with sauce, lettuce and tomato.

Cook's Tip: Cooking times are for fresh or thoroughly thawed ground beef. Color is not a reliable indicator of ground beef doneness.

Cook's Tip: If using 95% lean ground beef, add 1/2 cup soft bread crumbs and 2 egg whites to ground beef. Continue as directed in step 2.

NUTRITION INFORMATION
Nutrition information per serving, using 95% lean ground beef recipe and reduced fat mayonnaise: 407 calories; 18 g fat (8 g saturated fat; 3 g monounsaturated fat); 95 mg cholesterol; 883 mg sodium; 28 g carbohydrate; 1.2 g fiber; 33 g protein; 7.0 mg niacin; 0.4 mg vitamin B6; 2.2 mcg vitamin B12; 4.1 mg iron; 29.0 mcg selenium; 5.8 mg zinc.
This recipe is an excellent source of protein, niacin, vitaminB6, vitaminB12, iron, selenium and zinc.


Nutrition information per serving, using 80% lean ground beef recipe and regular mayonnaise: 495 calories; 29 g fat (11 g saturated fat; 9 g monounsaturated fat); 100 mg cholesterol; 661 mg sodium; 23 g carbohydrate; 0.9 g fiber; 31 g protein; 6.1 mg niacin; 0.4 mg vitamin B6; 2.6 mcg vitamin B12; 3.6 mg iron; 29.7 mcg selenium; 6.2 mg zinc.
This recipe is an excellent source of protein, niacin, vitaminB6, vitaminB12, iron, selenium and zinc.