Delicious Fran: Chili Cheese and Pineapple Turkey and Beef Burgers

I did another Food Network Challenge, it was Chili Cheese Burgers. How these challenges go is, the Food Network offers up a vote for a recipe, people vote on which one they want to make, and the winning recipe is what we have to make and add our flare to for that month.

So I took their recipe and made it mine own, I will provide the recipe they gave, but tell you what I did.

I made two type of burgers as my husband wanted beef burgers and I wanted Turkey

So I used my typical burger recipe, which includes, eggs, bread crumbs, italian seasoning, shallots, Worcestershire sauce, garlic, turkey or beef :)

I also used Banana peppers , valdia onions, pineapple, mushrooms, monterery jack and marble cheese, but more on that in a bit.. here is the recipe they put up..

Ingredients

4 medium anaheim peppers

1 half-inch thick slice of a large onion, skewered through the middle horizontally

1 1/2 pounds chuck, at least 20 percent fat

1 teaspoon chili powder

2 teaspoons roasted garlic

1 teaspoon salt

1/2 teaspoon cumin

4 tablespoons bread crumbs

2 eggs

1 tablespoon mustard

1 tablespoon Worcestershire sauce

1/2 teaspoon ground black pepper

4 slices Pepper Jack or Havarti cheese

4 hamburger buns

12 slices bacon, cooked

Directions

Place the chili's and onion on the grill and cook until charred on all sides, about 4 minutes per side. Place the peppers in a ziploc bag and seal, set the onion to the side. When chiles are cool enough to handle, about 5-10 minutes, remove from the back, peel of the charred skin, and seed. Coarsely chop the chiles and onion together and set aside.
Mix the ground beef with the chili powder, garlic, mustard, Worcestershire, eggs, bread crumbs, cumin, salt, and pepper. Form into 4 1/3-lb patties and use your thumb to make a dimple in the middle of each one. Place the patties on the grill and cook until desired doneness. About 2 minuted before the burgers are done, top each with a slice of pepper jack cheese and allow to melt.
Quickly grill hamburger buns, cut side down, until nicely browned, about 30 seconds. To serve, place the burger on the bun and top with the chili and onion mixture.

So we decided that we wanted to make a sweet heat kind of burger, so I sliced the pineapple into slices about a 1/4 inch thick, same with the onions, and grilled them till they had nice grill marks on both side, to help keep the onion whole and not fall apart on the grill we used two medal skewers and put them evenly spaced through the onion. This made it easier to flip and keep the onion whole.

We also skewered some mushrooms and grilled those up, and we grilled the banana pepper exactly the way they described.

we bought some very nice bakery buns and browned them on the grill. We choose to use Monterery jack cheese and marble cheese and melted the cheese on the burgers while they were on the grill.

To put the burger together, I put the pineapple on the bottom bun , placed the burger on top, than topped it with the onion and pepper, used ketchup, mustard and relish (we are originals when it comes to that.)

My husband choose to just eat his grilled pineapple, so he put the mushrooms on his as well as he preferred the marble cheese.

Here are the some photos of our results