Cheese-stuffed Burgers

Total Time: 30 mins Preparation Time: 15 mins Cook Time: 15 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 4
• 1/4 lb monterey jack cheese, grated
• 1 fresh hot chili pepper
• 1 tomato
• 1 1/2 lbs lean ground beef
• 2 teaspoons oil
• salt and pepper
• 8 slices crusty bread
• 2 tablespoons fresh coriander, chopped

Recipe

• 1 shred the cheese, seed and chop the chile pepper; combine.
• 2 slice the tomato; set aside.
• 3 shape the beef into 8 thin patties, put 1/4 of the cheese mixture in the centre of 4 of the patties; top with remaining patties and pinch to seal.
• 4 toast the bread.
• 5 heat oil in a frying pan and cook the hamburgers 6-8 minutes over medium heat for medium rare (i don't recommend cooking any ground meat to medium rare-- safety concerns-- but this is what the recipe states).
• 6 sprinkle with salt and pepper.
• 7 place cooked hamburgers on the toast and top with tomato slices and coriander, then another slice of toast.