Heart Attack American

The motto this week : "Bigger is better"! I wanted to make a typical American hamburger and create a burger that is pure overkill. Two burgers, a lot of cheese, a homemade Jack & Coke BBQ sauce, pickles, onions and lettuce. It's easy, big and very tasty. So let's get started.

Ingredients

Ingredients
- cola
- ketchup
- Jack Daniels Whiskey
- wine vinegar
- 1 eschalot
- rock salt
- smoked paprika
- 1 chipotle pepper
- 1 red onion
- 1 tomato
- 1 large pickle
- lettuce
- 2 slices of Cheddar cheese
- 2 vegetarian burgers
- vegetarian bacon
- hamburger bun
- 1 clove of garlic
- cayenne pepper
- olive oil


Preparation ( Jack & Coke BBQ Sauce ) 

Finely slice the eschalot and the garlic. Heat up some olive oil in a pan and cook the eschalot and the garlic ( about 3 minutes ). Add 1 cup of cola, 1 cup of ketchup, 1/2 cup of white wine vinegar, 1 1/2 cup of Jack Daniels, a tbs of smoked paprika, a tsp of cayenne pepper, and the chopped up chipotle. Stir it until all the ingredients are mixed and leave it to simmer on low heat for about 1 hour. You should get a thick sauce. At the end add some salt to your own taste. Let the sauce cool down.

Preparation ( Heart Attack American )

Heat up oil in a pan ( I used olive oil ) and fry the burgers and the bacon until crispy on the outside. Put a little bit of sauce on the bottom half of the bun, add one of the burgers, top it with a slice of cheddar, and add a little bit of the bbq sauce. Now put on the second burger and top it with a slice of cheddar. Put it under the grill until the cheese starts melting. Also put the top part of the bun under the grill. Take a spoonfull of sauce and put it on the melted cheese, add bacon bits, red onion slices, tomato, pickles and lettuce. And Bob's your uncle!

The Heart Attack American

Music

The music accompanying this dish is a song by one of my favourite bands at the moment. I also stole the tittle of the song for the burger. Heart Attack American by L.A. based band The Bronx. Enjoy the food and the music!

The Bronx

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=97Ej_i2qaH8