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Sweet Pepper Bunless Sliders

Prep Time1 hour 10 minutes
Cook Time20 minutes
Total Time1 hour 30 minutes
Servings: 8

Ingredients

  • 1/4 cup tomato ketchup
  • 1 tbsp balsamic vinegar
  • 1 tbsp honey
  • Vegetable oil
  • 4 scallions
  • 1 large sweet pepper
  • Drizzle olive oil
  • 1 lb 80% lean ground chuck beef
  • Salt and pepper to taste
  • 1/2 cup arugula
  • 8 ciliegine mozzarella balls
  • 8 cherry tomatoes
  • 8 toothpicks

Instructions

  • Mix together ketchup, vinegar and honey and set aside in the fridge until ready to serve.
  • Slice scallions into 2 inch strips, make sure they're dry.
  • Fill skillet to 1/3 with vegetable oil and place on high heat.
  • Once oil is hot carefully add sliced scallions and toss using a mesh skimmer.
  • Get the scallions as crisp as you can without burning them.
  • Remove the skillet from the heat and strain the scallions out with a mesh skimmer and tip onto a paper towel lined plate. Keep the oil in the skillet, you'll need it.
  • Cut the sweet pepper in half and remove core and seeds, then cut each half into 4 equally sized chunks.
  • Place sweet pepper chunks on a parchment line cooking sheet and drizzle with olive oil.
  • Place cooking sheet in a preheated oven at 450 and cook for 15-20 mins until the peppers begin to blister just a little.
  • Once done remove peppers from oven and place on top of the stove to keep them warm.
  • Return skillet with vegetable oil to heat and heat until hot.
  • Add the once cooked scallions and toss again with a mesh skimmer.
  • Once the scallion get to a nice crisp remove and tip onto a paper towel line plate and allow to cool.
  • Divide ground chuck into eight and massage into patties, making sure the center is thinner than the edges and season patties with salt and pepper.
  • Cook your slider patties on the stove or the grill on a high heat and cook until desired doneness, then allow patties to rest.
  • Toss crispy scallions together with arugula.
  • Assemble each slider around a cocktail stick. First a chunk of sweet pepper, top with a beef patty, then a handful of the arugula and scallion mixture, push one piece of cilliegine mozzarella on top and then a cherry tomato.
  • Once all sliders are assembled, drizzle with ketchup and serve.