Bariatric Friendly - Cheese Wrapped Burger Dog On The Grill Recipe

"It is NOT a hot dog. It is a cheese stuffed hamburger, shaped round like a hot dog, seasoned and grilled, and served on a hot dog roll. If you make the dogs about 7-8" long, they will fit into a hot dog roll nicely once they are grilled, as they do shrink during grilling. You can make them smaller if you like, just adjust the size of the cheese stick. I slice my block of cheese into 8 pieces, making sure each one is about 6 inch by 1/2 inch thick. You won't use all of them, but the extras are great to munch on for a snack. You can change up what type of cheese you use, and you can also wrap each one in a piece of bacon, if you like, before grilling. Kids love these things almost as much as they do hot dogs! I have wrapped mine in a Joseph's Multigrain Flatbread half, and make them smaller to cut way down on the calories. I recently started wrapping them in lettuce leaves to cut out the carbs too!"

Original is 5-6 servings

Metric US

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Ingredients

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2 pounds lean ground beef (80-85% lean)
1 block (8 ounce) cheddar cheese (cut into strips about the size of string cheese)
Salt and pepper, to taste (if using celery salt, omit salt)

7 1/2 to 9 ounces bread rolls (hot dog rolls, 5-6, I use the New England style hot dog rolls, so you can grill them)
Condiments (your favorite, mustard, ketchup, dill or sweet relish, chopped onion, and celery salt are some of my favorites)

Nutritional

Serving Size: 1 (269.3 g)
Calories 710.5
Total Fat - 39.3 g
Saturated Fat - 16 g
Cholesterol - 186.9 mg
Sodium - 710 mg
Total Carbohydrate - 21.8 g
Dietary Fiber - 1.1 g
Sugars - 2.4 g
Protein - 63.5 g
Calcium - 537.4 mg
Iron - 7 mg
Vitamin C - 0 mg
Thiamin - 0.4 mg

Step by Step Method

Step 1

Slice the cheese into sticks (about the size of a string cheese).

Step 2

Season the ground beef with salt and pepper (or your favorite seasoning mix, I like to use garlic and onion powder) and split it up into 5-6 palm-sized balls.

Step 3

Flatten each ball out into a rectangle, and place a cheese stick horizontally down the middle. Roll it up, making sure that the ground beef is evenly covering the cheese stick.

Step 4

Place the soon-to-be burger dogs on a hot grill. Grill for 6-10 minutes, turning the dogs when charred grill marks appear on a side. You’ll need to do 3-4 turns (or more) to make sure you have even cooking around each dog.