Make a pound of ground beef go further in these hamburgers stuffed with shredded vegetables, breadcrumbs, and cheese.
For other recipe ideas for a pound of ground beef, please see my Ground Beef Recipe Round Up--106 recipes from food bloggers using my favorite freezer staple. [Because let's be honest, while roasted beets are always in my freezer, they are not my favorite freezer staple.]
When I get an abundance of onions, celery, carrots, bell peppers, and/or summer squash in the farm share, or from my garden, or on super sale at the store, I will fire up my new food processor and make bags of veggies. I'll finely chop the onions, celery, and peppers, then switch to the fine shred disc and finely shred carrots and summer squash. Then I'll pack 1/2 to 1 cup of each veggie in zip top bags.
In a perfect seasonal world, the veggies would all be ripe and overabundant at the same time. Reality for me is that I'll have an excess of squash, peppers and onion one time, or carrots and celery another time. So I make up bags with what I've got, and use however many bags I need to get the mix I desire. I store these in my freezer.
Previously I showed how I stretch a pound of ground meat by combining it with an assortment of farm fresh veggies to make taco meat. But there's more that you can do with a pound of meat and a couple of cups of vegetables.
I recently had a coupon for Fresh Takes* seasoned breadcrumbs and cheese and decided to try making burgers with it. Here's how it turned out.