Perfectly golden crisp sour dough bread is piled high with a tender, flavorful, juicy grilled hamburger patty, topped with caramelized onions, mushrooms, bacon, and three kinds of melted cheese. All to create these Ultimate Patty Melts!

I woke up one night last week thinking about… Patty Melts! (It happens! A lot!) Why was I thinking about Patty Melts in the middle of the night, you ask? Wish I could say it was a hormonal thing and call it good! (Sounds so much saner than the real reason!) 

Well…I had a really busy schedule that week, and I was ticking off in my mind what I had on hand to make a menu for dinners that week. There was a pound of hamburger out in the freezer…but I didn’t have any hamburger buns!

I couldn’t stand the thought of having to go to the store! (Real life problems my friends! Walmart shopping is not my favorite!) 

Next thought… Patty Melts! (This is what all women do in the wee hours of the morning…think of Patty Melts!)  A great cross between a grilled cheese and a hamburger. 

There I sat at three o’clock in the morning creating the Ultimate Patty Melt in my head! It would be loaded with bacon, fresh sauteed mushrooms, caramelized onions and lots of ooey-gooey melted cheese! This was going to be EPIC!!! 

Any awesome sandwich is only as great as its ingredients! So…

Ingredients List

• 1 pound ground beef
• 1 pound bacon, cooked
• 2 cups sliced fresh mushrooms
• 1 medium-sized onion
• 8 slices Munster cheese
• 8 slices Colby jack cheese
• 8 slices sour dough bread, or rye bread
• Butter for bread

How to Make the Ultimate Patty Melt…

Divide the hamburger into four equal portions. Form 4 patties, 1/4 of an inch thick, into the shape of your bread. For me, that was a rectangle.

TIP: You want to make sure that your hamburger patty covers the bread. 

Season with salt and pepper to taste. Grill on the BBQ, or in a Grill Pan on your stovetop.  

Cook 3–5 minutes or until patty is golden brown. Flip burgers over and grill the other side.

Topping Prep

Meanwhile…in other words…as the burgers are cooking, in a medium skillet over medium heat, add 1 tablespoon butter. Melt butter and add mushrooms and thinly sliced onions.

Cook until mushrooms are tender and onions are slightly caramelized or tender, whichever you prefer! 

Back to your burgers… Remove patties from pan and set aside. 

Let’s talk bread! What type of bread is used in a patty melt?

The original Patty Melt was made on rye bread. The birds at this nest don’t love rye bread. So I used a beautiful sour dough.

TIP: You can use whatever type of bread is your favorite! Like I always say…get creative in the kitchen! Have FUN!

How To Grill the Ultimate Patty Melt

Butter one side of each slice of bread. Place the slices of bread, buttered side down, on a hot griddle.

Cover one half of the bread slices with Munster cheese, on the other slices, Colby Jack. Now I was out of sliced Colby Jack, so I used grated cheese. You can use sliced. (It’s much easier… trust me!)

Place the grilled hamburger patties on top of the Colby Jack cheese. On the Munster cheese place three slices of pre-cooked bacon.

Once the cheese is melted and all gooey…and the bread is a beautiful golden brown… Add the mushrooms and onions on top of the burgers!

WOW! That patty melt looks mighty tasty! (I may have been drooling at this point…just another reason to wear an apron when cooking! Face it…they’re big girl bibs!) 

Now for the tricky part…bringing it all together! It’s time to marry two sides together, bacon and burger, without losing anything during the process! (This requires some MAD flipping skills! Thankfully, any mother who has had more than one small child at a time can do this with her eyes closed!)

TIP: Use a spatula to do this! (Don’t use your bare hands!) Also, I recommend placing the bacon side on top of the burger side and pressing it all down together with the back side of your “flipper”! (That’s the technical term for a flapjack-burger-grilled cheese-flipper thingy!)

Look at that Patty Melt! Isn’t it a thing of beauty! (Yep, this is what men find beautiful ladies!)

What to serve with a Patty Melt if you’re making this for dinner?

I made oven-fried potato wedges with garlic salt and a heavy sprinkle of Parmesan cheese! (Cause at this point calories are not even worth mentioning!) A great compliment to this delicious sandwich.  There are lots of great options though…

Great Sandwich Side Recipes

• California Slaw
• Loaded Tater Tots
• Oven Fried Squash
• Honey Poppy Seed Fruit Salad
• Parmesan Garlic Butter Red Potatoes
• Crunchy Broccoli Salad from Julia’s Simply Southern

The great thing about a patty-melt this size…is that it’s an entire meal! Truth be told…me and Mr. Nest could only eat half…they are HUGE! I’ll share a secret with you though…we ate the other halves the next day! I heated them up in my air fryer, and they were as crispy and tasty as the first day!

I suggest adding a little mustard to this sandwich! It really kicks it up! If you’ve never added Munster cheese to your grilled cheese…do it!!! The melt factor is out of this world!!!

Try it sometime…until then…TRY THESE Ultimate Patty Melts!

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Happy Nesting!

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Ultimate Patty Melts

Juicy Beef patties on grilled sour dough bread with mushrooms, onions, bacon, and loads of melted cheese! All combine to create the most amazing patty melt EVER!

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Prep Time 15 minutes mins

Cook Time 15 minutes mins

Total Time 30 minutes mins

Servings 4 servings

Calories 1612 kcal

Ingredients

  

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• 1 lb ground beef
• 1 lb bacon cooked
• 8 slices sourdough bread
• 8 slices Munster cheese
• 8 slices Colby Jack Cheese
• 2 cups sliced mushrooms
• 1 medium onion sliced thinly
• butter
• salt and pepper to taste

Instructions

 

• Divide hamburger into four equal parts. Form hamburger into 1/4 inch thick patties that will fit the surface of the bread you’ve selected.
• Heat Grill pan over medium high heat. Place burgers on hot grill pan. Season with salt and pepper. Flip burgers to cook other side of patties. When done remove from skillet and set aside.
• While burgers are cooking place medium skillet over medium-high heat. Add 1 Tablespoon butter. Melt butter. Add sliced mushrooms and onions. Saute until mushrooms are tender and onions are translucent.
• Butter one side of each piece of bread. Place bread slices buttered side down on hot grill. Add two slices of Munster cheese on four slices of the buttered bread. On the remaining slices of bread add the Colby Jack cheese.
• When cheese begins to melt, add grilled hamburger patty to the Colby Jack cheese. On the Munster cheese side add three slices of cooked bacon.
• Add sauteed mushrooms and onion to the top of each meat patty. When bread is toasted to a golden brown, carefully place the bacon side of the sandwich on top of the patty side. Remove from grill with spatula, cut in half and serve immediately.

Nutrition

Serving: 1gCalories: 1612kcalCarbohydrates: 76gProtein: 108gFat: 96gSaturated Fat: 43gPolyunsaturated Fat: 46gTrans Fat: 1gCholesterol: 313mgSodium: 3487mgFiber: 5gSugar: 10g

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