Bacon Buckaroo Burgers
with BBQ Caramelized Onion & Cheesy Loaded Potato Rounds
- Milk
- Wheat
Howdy, fellow burger lovers! It’s time to saddle up for a delicious, down-home dinner (and some more cowboy puns). We’re talking about a bacon-loaded, bodaciously beefed up creation that’s chock full of bold flavors sure to satisfy. Beef patties are topped with melty gouda, tangy pickles, and a heap of BBQ caramelized onions. On the side, there’s a pile of cheesy loaded potato rounds with all the fixin’s. You’re bacon me hungry, partner!
Ingredients
12 ounce
Potatoes
1 unit
Sliced Dill Pickle
4 tablespoon
BBQ Sauce
4 ounce
Bacon
1 tablespoon
Fry Seasoning
1 unit
Onion
2 tablespoon
Sour Cream
½ cup
Pepper Jack Cheese
(Contains: Milk)
10 ounce
Ground Beef
2 slice
Gouda Cheese
(Contains: Milk)
2 unit
Brioche Buns
(Contains: Wheat)
2 unit
Scallions
Not included in your delivery
1 tablespoon (tbsp)
Butter
(Contains: Milk)
2 teaspoon (tsp)
Cooking Oil
2 teaspoon (tsp)
Salt
Nutrition Values
Utensils
Cooking Steps
• Adjust rack to top position and preheat oven to 450 degrees. Wash and dry produce. • Halve, peel, and thinly slice onion; mince a few slices until you have 2 TBSP (4 TBSP for 4 servings). Halve buns. • Cut potatoes into ¼-inch-thick rounds. Toss on a baking sheet with a large drizzle of oil, half the Fry Seasoning (you’ll use the rest later), salt, and pepper. Arrange in a single overlapping layer. • Roast on top rack until lightly browned, 20 minutes (you’ll add more to the sheet then).
• Meanwhile, melt 1 TBSP butter in a medium pan over medium-high heat. Add sliced onion and season with salt. Cook, stirring occasionally, until softened and lightly browned, 8-10 minutes. TIP: Lower heat if onion begins to brown too quickly. • Stir in half the BBQ sauce (save the rest for serving); cook until warmed through, 2-3 minutes. Turn off heat.
• While onion cooks, heat a large pan over medium-high heat. Add bacon* and cook, turning occasionally and adjusting heat if browning too quickly, until crispy, 6-10 minutes. • Turn off heat; transfer bacon to a paper-towel-lined plate. Carefully discard all but a thin layer of bacon fat (you’ll use this to cook the patties). • Once bacon is cool enough to handle, finely chop half the slices.
• In a large bowl, combine beef*, minced onion, remaining Fry Seasoning, and salt (we used ½ tsp; 1 tsp for 4 servings). Form mixture into two patties (four patties for 4), each slightly wider than a burger bun. • Heat pan with bacon fat over medium-high heat; add patties and cook to desired doneness, 3-5 minutes per side. • In the last 1-2 minutes of cooking, top each patty with gouda; cover pan until cheese melts.
• Once potatoes have roasted 20 minutes, remove sheet from oven; evenly sprinkle with pepper jack and chopped bacon. Return to oven until cheese melts and potatoes are tender, 5-7 minutes more. • Meanwhile, toast buns until golden. • Trim and thinly slice scallions.
• Spread buns with remaining BBQ sauce. Fill with patties, caramelized onion, pickle (you may have extra; if so, serve on the side), and bacon slices. • Divide burgers and potatoes between plates. Garnish potatoes with sour cream and scallions and serve.
Customer reviews
Review summary
Updated on Dec 2025- Flavor: Many loved the juicy, flavorful burger with caramelized BBQ onions; some found it too sweet or messy.
- Ease of prep: Recipe had multiple steps and pans; some found timing tricky but instructions generally clear.
- Suggestions: Consider grilling the burgers; try cheddar or pepper jack instead of gouda for more flavor.
- Portions: Potato rounds were a hit, but some wanted more; burger patties were filling for most.
- Toppings: The thick-cut pickle was popular; some preferred less BBQ sauce or onion.
Reviews from our home cooks
These burgers & potatoes are awesome! The Gouda cheese is a wonderful addition to the burger. It melts over the side like a blanket hugging you with flavor. The loaded potato rounds smothered in grated cheese and fresh-made bacon bites & sour cream are great. Top off the burger with the kosher pickles and you'll be hollering Yippy Yahoo Buckaroo after just one bite!
This burger was great! I think the onions would've been better if they were just caramelized, rather than cooked with the bbq sauce. The cheese didn't add much flavor, so maybe a slightly stronger or even smoked cheese would work better. Also could've used a little more bacon in my opinion. Definitely enjoyed the meal though!!
Absolutely delicious!! The combination of bbq sauce, onion, dill pickle, bacon, and gouda cheese on a burger was outstanding!!! The cheesy bacon potatoes were a big hit as well!!
These burgers were great! We needed to sub some extra bacon though because it only came with 2 slices, so we had enough for one slice per burger but not enough to add to the loaded potato rounds.
I enjoyed this meal while watching the Grammys. It had great flavor, texture. The barbqued onions were outstanding. The burger patty was stacked full of awesomeness, the cheese, sauce all outstanding. Let's give a hand to those loaded potatoes. I ordered out for that type of potato and it's so satisfying to make it myself tasting the pops of flavor right out the oven.
Potatoes are to die for, but the recipe/instructions have you doing a lot at once so I missed some crucial steps like chopping only half the bacon to put on the potatoes. Burger was a bit average, but that was on me due to having to rush to bring everything together at once - could've used a bit of extra BBQ sauce and needed to make thinner patties to fit the whole bun.
It was delicious! The bacon was missing from my box, but I had some on hand, so it was fine. The onions weren't cooked low and slow enough to caramelize properly, and my partner thought the cheese on the potatoes was too crispy (we disagree here; I liked the cheese). Can't go wrong though. I enjoy cooking burgers.
These were so good. We love a good burger. Just wish there was more bacon. We got eight pieces for 4 servings and once they cooked and shrunk and used half for the potatoes we only had 1 small piece for each burger that there was no bacon flavor.
I was surprised by this. The onions/sauce was really good and though I'm not much into pickles, the pickle was a perfect addition to the burger. Really good. I didn't do a good job on the potato rounds. I think I made them too thin so they were too crisp.
The combo of bacon and gouda cheese plus all the fixins made these burgers fantastic. The potatoes were also great, will definitely make this meal again.
