Cream Cheesy Burgers
Diet types:
Recipe submitted by DaVita renal dietitian Judy from Illinois.
Portions: 4
Serving size: One hamburger with cream cheese mixture
Ingredients
- 1 pound hamburger meat
- 4 eggs
- 4 tablespoons cream cheese
- 1 teaspoon basil
- 1 teaspoon onion powder (or 1 tablespoon fresh onion)
- 1 teaspoon garlic powder (or 1 garlic clove, minced)
- 4 hamburger buns
Preparation
- Mix eggs and hamburger together.
- Separate meat into eight 2-ounce patties.
- In a separate bowl, mix cream cheese, basil, onion powder and garlic powder.
- Take about 1-1/2 tablespoons of the cream cheese mixture and place on top of a patty.
- Take another patty and place it on top, to sandwich the cream cheese between the two patties.
- Repeat this procedure with the remaining patties.
- Cook in a frying pan or on a grill to desired doneness.
Renal and renal diabetic food choices
Carbohydrate choices
2
Helpful hints
- For a variation, combine all the ingredients together with cream cheese in the meat, make four 4-ounce patties and cook.
- Recipe may be varied by rolling cream cheese in bread crumbs or panko crumbs.
- Patties cook best in a frying pan, in their own juices.
- Many herbs and flavorings work well to add flavor without sodium — try using horseradish, oregano or Italian seasoning.
- Top burger with lettuce and onion on a bun or top with a small amount of ketchup or steak sauce without the bun.
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says:
I agree with Amy. We made this tonight and my daughter put all 4 eggs in with the hamburger and we ended up with meat soup! LOL So we added 1/4 cup of bread crumbs. These burgers turned out quite well. The entire family liked them - I think next time we will try to add the horseradish to the cream cheese. Yummy!!
Dec. 21, 2009, 5:52 PM - Inappropriate review?
says:
The burgers were awesome!!! Although I don't see how you can get 4 eggs to go into 1 lb. of hamburger. I used 1 egg and it was very slimey and the meat wouldn't stay together!! Unless breadcrumbs are used, 4 eggs cannot be used!
Sep. 19, 2009, 1:47 PM - Inappropriate review?