The Absolute Best Burger Bowl with Potatoes

My Easy-Peasy Burger Bowl Recipe

I find making an actual burger too challenging. How much does that show off my lack of cooking skills these days? But making the perfect sized patty while also trying to get the right internal temperature without burning the outside. I don’t know. It’s just not for me. But ground beef cooked in a pan? I can handle that. And this burger bowl with potatoes comes together so easily on a weeknight!

Loaded Burger Bowls = Easy Meal

Since having my daughter THREE YEARS AGO, I still haven’t gotten back to my old self that loves cooking. She’s still in the stage where we need to watch her at all times to ensure she doesn’t break a bone or something in our house. And she’s not one to really play alone much. But we will get there! In the meantime, I’m still struggling to get back to my old creative self that loves cooking.

And that means easy meals and bowls are on constant repeat. I tend to just grab whatever I have in the fridge to create a meal. Blueberries and sauerkraut? Cool with me. Cottage cheese and oranges with soy sauce on top? Love. But sometimes, and only sometimes, I’ll put a meal together that makes more sense. Like a bowl with all the best friends from your favorite burger spot, in easy to eat, forkable bites. Is forkable a word? Guessing not based on my spelling error that keeps popping up when I type it. Rude.

Why You’ll Love This Healthy Burger Bowl Recipe

It makes you look like you tried – while you definitely diced some potatoes, smashed some meat, added a few burger toppings and mixed some special sauce…people will think you did way more. And that’s the point of life right – work smarter, not harder? 

It feels like you’re eating out, but it’s way healthier – when you’re eating at restaurants, they are normally using a higher fat content beef along with loading up on a ton of fat, whether they are cooking the ground beef in fat or frying the french fries. When you’re cooking at home, you get to decide how much fat you use or don’t use!

It’s filling without an insane amount of calories – when not cooked in a ton of fat (like they do at restaurants), potatoes are a high volume food, meaning they will are quite filling for a low amount of calories. They will fill up your stomach without an excessive amount of calories, all while tasting delicious!

What You’ll Need For This Meal

• Yellow onions
• Lean ground beef
• Ketchup & mustard
• Steak seasoning
• Worcestershire
• Gouda cheese slices
• Gold potatoes
• Some oil to cook your potatoes in
• Salt
• Garlic powder
• Onion powder
• Mayo
• Sweet relish
• Sugar
• Distilled white vinegar
• Pickle de gallo

How to Make Loaded Burger Bowls with Toppings

1. First and foremost, caramelize those onions of yours. Add diced onions to a pan with some fat and salt over medium heat. Move those onions around every so often, ensuring they don’t burn. Turn temperature down if needed. Once they become translucent, add some sugar and keep letting them cook until they are brown and beautiful.
2. Next you’ll want to start with roasting your potatoes. I like to spray my diced potatoes with some oil, using this oil sprayer. Then toss the potatoes with salt, garlic powder, and onion powder. I roast them at 400 degrees for about 20 minutes, then turn the heat up to 425 degrees for another 5 minutes to get them extra crispy.
3. Then make your burger sauce because it’s stupid easy. All you have to do is mix together mayo, ketchup, relish, sugar, and vinegar. That’s it.
4. And cook your meat, baby!! Cook ground beef in a pan, using this fun kitchen accessory that makes ground beef mashing easy peasy. Add salt and steak seasoning and cook until no pink remains. Then add worcestershire, ketchup, mustard, and sugar and cook until combined. Add cheese slices and cover to steam until cheese is ready for it’s cheese-pull close-up.
5. Finish with assembly. Add crispy potatoes, ground beef, caramelized onions, and burger sauce. And do NOT forget the pickle de gallo!

The Absolute Best Burger Bowl with Potatoes

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• Author: juli

Ingredients

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For the caramelized onions

• 2 medium yellow onions, finely diced
• 1 tablespoon avocado oil
• 1 teaspoons salt
• 1 teaspoons sugar

For the crispy potatoes

• 2lbs gold potatoes, diced
• 1 tablespoon avocado oil
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 1/2 teaspoon garlic powder
• 1/2 teaspoon onion powder

For the burger sauce

• 1/2 cup avocado mayo
• 3 tablespoons ketchup
• 2 tablespoons sweet pickle relish
• 1 teaspoon sugar
• 1 teaspoon distilled white vinegar

For the “burger”

• 2lbs 93/7 lean ground beef
• 1 tablespoon steak seasoning
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 3–4 tablespoons ketchup
• 2 tablespoons yellow mustard
• 2 tablespoons worcestershire
• 5 slices of gouda cheese
• 5–6 tablespoons Grillo’s pickle de gallo

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Instructions

1. Preheat the oven to 400 degrees F.
2. Finely dice onions. Add avocado oil to a pan over medium heat. Add diced onions to the pan, sprinkle with salt, and move those onions around every so often, ensuring they don’t burn. Turn temperature down if needed. Once they become translucent, add some sugar and let them cook until they are brown and beautiful.
3. Dice potatoes and place them on a parchment paper lined baking sheet. Spray with avocado oil and toss the potatoes with salt, garlic powder, and onion powder. Place them in the oven to roast for 20 minutes, then turn the heat up to 425 degrees for another 5 minutes to get them extra crispy.
4. In a small bowl, mix together mayo, ketchup, relish, sugar, and vinegar to make your burger sauce then set aside for later.
5. Cook ground beef in a pan, using this fun kitchen accessory that makes ground beef mashing easy peasy. Add salt and steak seasoning and cook until no pink remains. Then add worcestershire, ketchup, mustard, and sugar and cook until combined. Add cheese slices and cover to steam for about a minute, until the cheese is melted.
6. Now simply add everything to a bowl – Add crispy potatoes, ground beef and cheese mixture, caramelized onions, and burger sauce. Then top with pickle de gallo!

I hope you love this meal as much as we have in our house! Does my 3 year old eat it? No. She’s on a strict string cheese and berry diet. Sometimes a yogurt pouch. But I’ll get her there someday. And we may even enjoy a meal sitting down together. Who knows. Dream big, right?!