Recipe: Grilled Blue-Cheese Burgers

This weekend I'm grilling burgers—what could be better? My tastes tend to prefer healthy, reduced-fat food—except when it comes to burgers. When making a traditional burger, I select a chuck grind which has a higher fat-to-meat ratio. It makes the best burgers, to my palate.

Ingredients

• 1/2 cup blue cheese, crumbled
• 4 tablespoons cream cheese
• 1 tablespoon sour cream or yogurt
• 2 tablespoons prepared horseradish
• 2 pounds hamburger, ground chuck, or sirloin 
• 1 tablespoon finely grated onion
• 6 hamburger buns
• Lettuce and tomatoes

Directions

1. In a bowl, cream together blue cheese, cream cheese, sour cream, and horseradish. ?
2. Preheat gas or charcoal grill to high heat. Oil grill grates.?
3. Spread the beef onto a cutting board and sprinkle with the grated onion. Combine onions into beef and form into 6 patties. Season both sides of beef with kosher salt and freshly ground pepper. Grill burgers, with lid down, about 4 to 5 minutes per side for medium-rare. ?
4. Divide and spread blue cheese sauce on cut side of each bun half then place burger in bun with lettuce and sliced tomato.

This recipe was written by Peggy Lampman and originally posted on AnnArbor.com on Aug. 6, 2010.