Piled Portobello Gouda Burgers with Roasted Garlic.
File the following under my list of current obsessions.
Perfect single serving margaritas… with lots of salt.
Creating the extra smokey [aqua] eye with a $24 dollar brush and MAC’s Talent Pool.
Surviving on toast, cheese, chocolate, avocado and butter-sauteed mushrooms while playing single lady for an entire week.
Real World. What.a.trainwreck. But I don’t watch it. That’s just what I’ve heard.
Searching for the only self tanner in the universe that doesn’t turn me 6 shades of dirty Jersey Shore orange.
Hugging it out.
Daily long walks that are triumphant to any other form of cardio.
Ice cold water studded with strawberries and cucumbers.
See also:
Trashy celeb magazines.
Blake Shelton. Huuuuuuge girl crush.
Pinterest. Still can’t stop.
Vacuuming up a 2 pound container of spilled sprinkles in the crevice of my counter.
Eating burgers off of English muffins.
Have you ever eater a burger on top of the crusty nooks and crannies? Obsessed. I can’t get over the toastiness and the crunchiness and all-around goodness.
My current fixation on mushrooms finally led me down the dusty and sometime-fungied path of a giant portobello burger. I’m waaay too much of a beef lover to order something like this on the reg, so I took it upon myself to create a little snack that I am now enamored with.
Buttery roasted garlic, creamy avocado, marinated portobello caps and syrupy balsamic. Oh, and two thick slices of gouda. What are you waiting for?
Imagine how much better your day is going to get after eating this. I think it’s time to drop whatever you’re doing and make one. You have my permission.
Piled Portobello Gouda Burgers with Roasted Garlic
Ingredients
- 4 English muffins, light multigrain are our favorites
- 4 portobello mushroom caps
- 2 heads of garlic
- 1 tablespoon olive oil
- 4 thick slices of gouda cheese
- 1 small red onion
- 1 medium tomato, sliced
- 1 avocado, sliced
- butter lettuce for garnish
- 1/2 cup balsamic vinegar
for mushroom marinade:
- 1/3 cup olive oil
- 2 tablespoons soy sauce
- 2 tablespoons cooking sherry
- 2 tablespoons balsamic vinegar
- 1 garlic clove, minced
Instructions
- Two hours before serving, combine the marinade ingredients in a shallow dish and add mushrooms. I let them lay on their top side in the marinade, and spoon some marinade into the bottom-up side to let it soak. Marinate for two hours.
- One hour before serving, preheat oven to 375 degrees F. Slice off the top of the heads of garlic and drizzle a bit of olive oil (1/2 tablespoon) on top. Wrap in foil and roast for 45 minutes. Let cool completely. Heat the balsamic vinegar in a small saucepan and bring to a boil. Reduce to a simmer and cook for 3 minutes, then turn off heat and set aside to thicken.
- Slice red onion into rings and add 1/2 tablespoon olive oil into a large skillet on medium heat. Add onions and let soften and caramelize for 10-12 minutes. Set aside once finished, leaving the skillet on. Add the marinated mushrooms to the skillet top side up. Cook for 5 minutes, then flip and cook for 4 more. Turn back over, add a slice of gouda on top, and turn off heat.
- Toast the English muffins. Using your fingers, squeeze roasted garlic out of the head into a bowl. Mash with a spoon. Spread on both sides of each English muffin.
- Top English muffin with a portobello cap, onion rings, tomato, avocado, and butter lettuce. I recommend a light sprinkle of salt and pepper on the tomato and avocado for flavor. Finish with a drizzle of syrupy balsamic and serve.
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Only made better with bacon. Duh.
163 Comments on “Piled Portobello Gouda Burgers with Roasted Garlic.”
Making these TONIGHT!
it was so delicious! the roasted garlic on the bread took it over the top! love your blog..
Lovely recipe! I can’t wait to try it. I came across your blog on the Tasty Kitchen site and I love your recipes. Question….do you scrape off the gills from the portobello mushroom caps? I’ve heard some recipes that call for scraping them off.
Also can’t wait to make your funfetti cupcakes!
These. were. AMAZING. I may have them for dinner every night this week!
I have a couple portabellas and just found this. I must make it. Trying to convince the hubby to eat mushrooms instead of a regular burger for one night….we’ll see.
Made this last week and they were amazing! I didn’t have gouda so I used whatever we had. So, these were so good that MY carnivorous husband even said he could do another dinner out of them. Only he also told me as long as we had a “solid side dish”. Progress?
Holy crap. Just had these as our main dish at cooking club. Awesome. And there was bacon. Awesomer.
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Oh yes, I definitely could live on cheese, chocolate, and avocados. Everything in butter too, please!
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Do you think it would be alright to marinate to mushrooms all day?
I think it would become too soggy since mushrooms have a tendency to absorb moisture – hence the common belief that they should not be washed, but just brushed with a damp paper towel.
Hope it helps
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if not, will you be in a triad with me and my husband?
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I’ve spent the last hour tootling around your blog. I’m starving, near-drooling, and absolutely delighted. I’d love to stick around longer, but I have a great deal of shopping ahead of me, and several years’ worth of cooking to get to.
But I WILL be back. :)
I made this for my husband and he devoured two of them… right before asking if I would make it again next week. Thank you for introducing me to the world of roasted garlic!
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Amazing!! I didn’t have time to do the 2hr marinade and it turned out perfectly! I’ll be adding this to our menu on “meat- free Mondays” :)
Made these tonight. Most delicious thing I have made in a long time! Thank you, Jessica!! You are a genius!!!
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Made this last night. It was ridiculously delicious.
Since it took hours to make and a lot of prep work, we won’t be making it often but will definitely make it again.
We had these last night–so delicious!