At the beginning of Carl’s Jr. attempt to spice up their menu they came out with a buffalo wing inspired featured burger that they called the Buffalo Blue Cheese Burger. It was pretty good, but didn’t quite have the right mix of flavors, in my opinion. But it got us working on making a quiche inspired by it and some other ideas. This Buffalo Wing Cheese Burger Quiche took a few tries to get right.
Serves: 16 – 22
Ingredients
- 1.5 – 2 lb. 80/20 Hamburger
- 2 tspn salt
- 4 tspn black pepper
- 1 extra egg
- 1/2 cup of Panko or bread crumbs
- 1/2 cup – of your favorite buffalo wing sauce (we found Frank’s RedHot Wing Sauce works best)
- 1 cup – chopped tomato
- 1 cup – chopped lettuce
- 1 cup – chopped red onion
- 1 cup – chopped white onion
- 1 cup – shredded Swiss cheese
- 1 cup – crumbled Blue cheese
- 2 pie crusts
Preparation
Prepare all of the items that need to be chopped by cutting into 1/4 – 1/2 inch sized chunks. Fine chop the white onions. You can put the tomato, lettuce and red onion into the same container and return to the refrigerator until final assembly.
In a large mixing bowl, mix together the hamburger, salt, pepper, chopped white onions, extra egg and panko. Make sure this is fully mixed together. Add in half of the wing sauce and thoroughly mix. Save the rest of the wing sauce until final preparation. Form the meat into 3 – 5 hamburger patties. On a medium high heat either in a skillet or preferably on a grill, and cook the patties until they are starting to get a little char on the outside, medium well. Remove from grill and allow to rest until cool enough to chop into 1/2 sized chunks. Put the chopped burgers in a container and refrigerate until final assembly.
For the crust, you can use a basic crust or if you want to take it up a notch make a bacon crust.
Final Assembly and Cooking
Preheat the oven to 375 degrees. In a large mixing bowl combine the tomato, lettuce, red onion and burger together and mix. Then half and put each half into each pie crust. Prepare the basic quiche mix and mix into it the 1/4 cup of wing sauce that you didn’t use in preparing the hamburger. Pour this over the chopped ingredients in the pie crusts. Mix together the cheeses and spread evenly on top of the pies. Sprinkle a little salt and pepper if you want for a little extra seasoning. Into the oven the pies go for 30 – 40 minutes or until the cheese starts to brown. Remove and it’s ready to go.