Cheeseburger Bites

If there is one immutable law in this house, it is that finger food is always going to disappear like David Copperfield. Anything that is bite-sized, little, on a stick or otherwise easily portable, or shove-into-the-mouth-able is going to be an easy sale.

With Super Sunday—the crowned jewel of the snack food calendar—right around the corner, I’m assembling my master plan for feeding my football-crazy crew keeping them happy, whatever the outcome of the game.

We have some tried and true recipes that cannot be left off of the menu (chicken wings, soft pretzel wrapped smoked sausages, dill pickle dip, and more…), but each year we add a fun new recipe or two to the rotation. This year’s star addition is Cheeseburger Bites from the Land O’Lakes Big Game Recipe Collection of simple, crowd-pleasing recipes.

I made this recipe to have on hand for the webinar I co-hosted with Amber from the Land O’Lakes test kitchen this past Friday. A girl has to keep her energy up while she’s chatting up a virtual room full of fabulous bloggers, right? Hi. I’m Rebecca, I’m a stress eater.”

Here’s the point. I made them, put them on the counter, and found five little men at my elbows giving me the usual shake-down: “What’s that?”, “Is that meat?”,  “Can I eat one?”,  “Can I eat four?”, “Can I eat all of them?”

Before I knew what had happened, three-quarters of the platter was empty.

I only had a handful of Cheeseburger Bites and a bowlful of dark chocolate chunks and pretzels in my lap to sustain me. Poor me.

Are you looking for more delicious and economical ground beef recipes? Try out our Ground Beef Fried Rice a.k.a. Cheeseburger Fried Rice as well as our 15 Minute Korean Style Beef and Cheater Sesame Beef. 

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Rebecca Lindamood

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Crispy, simple wonton cups filled with melty, cheesy good cheeseburger filling. Garnish with chopped pickles and sesame seeds for a super Super Bowl (or any game day!) treat. Ever so gently adapted from and with thanks to the Land O’Lakes Test Kitchen recipe

Ingredients

  

• 36-48 wonton wrappers trimmed to 3-inch squares
• nonstick cooking spray
• 1 pound lean ground beef
• 1/2 cup finely minced or grated onion
• 1 clove of garlic or 1/4 teaspoon of garlic powder, peeled and minced or pressed
• 1 teaspoon ground black pepper preferably freshly ground
• 1 cup finely chopped dill pickles divided
• 1/2 cup milk
• 14 slices Land O Lakes Deli American
• toasted sesame seeds for garnish

Instructions

 

• Preheat the oven to 350°F with a rack positioned in the middle of the oven.
• Lightly spray mini-muffin pans with non-stick cooking spray. Gently press one trimmed wonton square into each muffin cup.
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• Place pan in the center of the oven rack and bake for 5-10 minutes, watching carefully as they burn easily!
• Immediately turn the wonton cups out onto a cooling rack to cool completely. While they cool, turn your attention to the filling.
• Add the minced onion, garlic, and black pepper to a small frying or sautee pan. Use your hands to break up the ground beef over the onion and cook over medium heat, breaking the beef down into very small pieces with a sturdy spoon, until it is cooked through and browned. Tear up the slices of American cheese and add them to the pan along with the milk. Continue cooking, stirring to help the process, until the cheese is completely melted and the mixture is creamy. At this point, you can remove some of the mixture for anyone who is not a pickle fiend. To the remaining cheesy beef mixture, add about 1/2 cup of the chopped pickles and stir them in well. Spoon the mixture into the wonton cups and garnish with the rest of the chopped pickles and a sprinkling of toasted sesame seeds.
• Serve immediately.

Notes

I made a couple of tweaks to the original Land O’Lakes Test Kitchen recipe to suit our family’s tastes. Instead of lettuce, we garnished the cheeseburger bites with additional chopped pickles. Because of this added salty component, I omitted the salt called for in the recipe. Additionally, I upped the cheese, because really? How can you go wrong with more cheese? And for no reason other than that I love my cheeseburgers with a hint of garlic and a belt of black pepper, I added garlic and increased the amount of black pepper. We loved it!

Nutritional information is an estimate and provided to you as a courtesy. You should calculate the nutritional information with the actual ingredients used in your recipe using your preferred nutrition calculator.

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Disclosure: I’ve partnered with Land O Lakes^® Deli Cheese. This blog post is sponsored by Land O’Lakes.