Easy, cheeseburger bowls loaded with toppings, and a delicious big mac sauce. Customize the way you like! They never get old with the topping options.

Why Make These Cheeseburger Bowls

Burger bowls are such a great change up from your typically burger. Eating your burger in a bowl means way more room for toppings.

• Customize your toppings however you like.
• Cooks Quickly. These bowls can be ready in 30 minutes.
• Easy. This is such an easy recipe to follow.
• Cheesy. Use any cheese of choice.

If you aren’t a big beef eater and want to make these hamburger bowls a bit healthier, you can use ground turkey or chicken as the base for this easy meal. My Air Fried Turkey Burgers or Turkey Smash Burgers would be tasty as well. This meal can be meal prepped and you can switch up the toppings every night to make it taste like new.

Ingredient Notes

All other ingredients and measurements can be found in the recipe card towards the bottom of this post. 

• Ground Beef. High quality 90/10 or 80/20 will work great. If you want to make this recipe a little healthier, use ground turkey or ground chicken instead.

• Seasoning. Seasoning is what makes this dish so flavorful (plus a few other things of course). You will need garlic, onion powder, dried thyme, salt, pepper.

• Worcestershire Sauce. This is a fermented liquid condiment invented in the city of Worcester in Worcestershire, England. It’s a malty, vinegar style condiment that tastes great with beef.

• Onions. I use white onions. These will be sautéed, almost caramelized in balsamic vinegar. They add a great depth of flavor to this bowl.

• Balsamic Vinegar. This will be used to flavor the beef in a unique way.

• Fries. This is optional but I love my burger bowls with fries. You can use frozen french fries or use my Crispy Homemade Fries Recipe.

• Mayo. This makes the big mac sauce.

• Mustard. To make the big mac sauce.
• Relish. a smidge goes into the cheeseburger bowl big mac sauce!

• Lettuce. I use lettuce as the base of this recipe and serve all the Ingredients over the lettuce. It’s the perfect crunch.

Optional Toppings For Cheeseburger Bowls

• Tomatoes. Diced cherry tomatoes are perfect for toppings here.

• Pickles. I love the sweet and spicy pickles the best but dill pickles will also work.

• Bacon. I can’t have a burger without bacon so I love to add a little bacon to these bowls for some salty crunch.

Steps To Make Cheeseburger Bowls

• Step One. Gather all your ingredients. Chop up your toppings (tomatoes, pickles, bacon and set them to the side). If you are using fries, bake them now according to the package or follow my Homemade Crispy Fries Recipe.

• Step Two. In a small bowl, add mayo, dijon, a pinch of salt pepper and whisk together. To thin the sauce a little, add 1 tsp of water to the mix until desired consistency.

• Step Three. Dice the onion. In a medium sized pan, add a spritz of olive oil and heat on medium heat Add the onions and season with a pinch of salt/pepper. Sauté for about 3 minutes or until browned and sweating.

• Step Four. Add the ground beef to the pan on medium heat. Season the beef. Continue to cook until beef is browned. Soak up the excess grease with a paper towel. Once the grease is soaked up, add in the Worcestershire Sauce and balsamic, simmer for 1 minute and top with shredded cheese. Let it melt a tad and take the beef off the heat.

• Step Five. In a bowl, add lettuce, hamburger meat, toppings (pickles, onions, tomatoes, cheese, fries) and drizzle optional big mac sauce over the bowl.

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