Miso Peanut Bacon Burgers

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Recipe & Photo by Lori Rukstales
Roberts, WI

• 1/2 cup white miso paste
• 3/8 cup peanut butter
• 2 tablespoons honey
• 2 tablespoons fresh ginger, minced
• 8 cloves garlic, minced
• 2 tablespoons toasted sesame oil
• 2 tablespoons rice vinegar
• 2 tablespoons soy sauce
• 2 pounds ground beef
• 16 pieces of cooked bacon
• 8 hamburger buns

Prepare the sauce; mix the first eight ingredients in a blender until well-blended.

Mix 1/2 cup of the sauce with the ground beef ; form into 8 patties. Reserve the remaining sauce for topping burgers.

Broil/Grill the patties until cooked through, flipping once.

While burgers are cooking, split the buns; toast. Assemble the burgers - one patty and two pieces of bacon per bun, top with a generous dollop of reserved sauce.

Serve immediately.

• Yields: 8 hamburgers (Shown pictured with an oven fried potato rose.)