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Green Chile Cheeseburgers

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June/July 2009

Green Chile Cheeseburgers

For our version of New Mexico’s green chile cheeseburgers—ground beef patties grilled to a crusty brown and topped with chopped fire-roasted chiles and a slice of cheese—we preferred the flavor and fat of 85 percent lean ground beef. After a few trial runs, we settled on 6-ounce patties, which could accommodate a generous chile topping.

For the topping, we used mild Anaheim chiles and spicy jalapeños for a complex chile flavor. We grilled the chiles with onions, then chopped them with fresh garlic in the food processor. For even more chile flavor, we pureed some of the chile topping into a smooth paste and mixed it into the raw ground beef. This produced burgers with a pleasurable hot punch through and through.

Serves 4

In step 2, you may need to add a teaspoon or two of water to the food processor to help process the chile mixture. Pressing a shallow divot in the center of each burger patty keeps the burgers flat during grilling.

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