Pita Burgers with Chorizo

As I promised, even some of my husband’s kitchen creations would make it up here!  Needless to say, final exam time came around for Civil Procedure B, so the kitchen was the last place I wanted to be.  If it doesn’t involve either a book and my outline or a pillow and a bed, I wasn’t interested.  I even took a few days off work to study.  Civil Procedure will probably be the death of me.  Since it was Sunday, my husband’s idea of a perfect summer dinner was certainly grilled burgers and beer, thus that was what he made.  But to my surprise, he kicked it up a notch!

Ingredients

• 4 oz Chorizo
• 1 lb Ground Beef, we usually use lean sirloin
• 1 Tbsp Worcestershire
• 1 Avocado
• 1/3 cup Salsa or a can of Embasa Salsa
• 1 Tomato – Sliced
• Shredded Lettuce, Bag or from a head of lettuce
• 1 Onion (1/2 chopped & 1/2 sliced in rings)
• Pita Bread with pocket
• Hot Sauce – We use Valentino or Tobasco
• 1 Medium Onion
• 1 Egg
• 1/2 tsp Salt
• 1/2 tsp Pepper
• 1/4 cup Bread Crumbs

Directions

1. First, cook the chorizo on the stove top.  Just take it out of the packaging and cook it until it’s in small crumbles of spicy meet.
2. Mix the Ground Beef, Worcestershire, Chopped Onion, Egg, Salt, Pepper, and Bread Crumbs by hand. Then add in the chorizo into the mixture.  Divide out into 4-6 patties.  We found smaller patties (making 6) works better with half pockets of pita bread.
3. To make the guacamole – take the flesh out of the avocado, mash it up.  Add in the Salsa.  Yes, this is the quick version of guacamole instead of adding in the individual ingredients!  Remember, after all, we do work and go to school.
4. Time to heat up the grill!
5. Next, cook up your burgers to your preference
6. Time to assemble!  In half a pita pocket, spread the guacamole to the inside.  Then add in the burger, lettuce, tomato, and onion.
7. Add hot sauce to you tastes.
8. Grab a cold beer.  We used Oberon as you can see.
9. Eat up!  And have seconds!

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