Cooking With Beer – Sierra Nevada Double IPA Beef Patty Melts

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Festive foods take on new meaning when made with serious beer. And who doesn’t like a hot, cheesy, ground beef patty melt, especially when it’s made with the right super hoppy Imperial IPA?

This tasty recipe comes our way from Sierra Nevada Brewing and it’s made the brewery’s new late-winter seasonal, Powder Day IPA, a double dry-hopped 7.7% ABV India Pale Ale with bright a blizzard of bright citrus, mango, pineapple, and stone fruit that really compliment this tasty dish.

Plus Sierra Nevada has joined forces with Protect Our Winters (POW) a great environmental advocacy organization, so when you’re cooking with Powder Day IPA you’ll be doing some good for the world while you’re fixing up some good eats.

So let’s do this!

Powder Day IPA Double Patty Melts

Ingredients

6 tablespoons unsalted butter

2 onions, sliced 1-inch thick

1/4 cup, plus a splash of Powder Day IPA

1 pound ground beef

2 slices of cheddar cheese

2 slices of Swiss cheese

4 slices Rye bread

Salt and freshly ground black pepper, to season

(Courtesy Sierra Nevada Brewing)

Directions

Step 1

Melt 2 tablespoons butter in a large skillet over medium heat. Add onions and season with salt and pepper. Cook onions for 20-25 minutes, stirring occasionally, until nicely caramelized.

Step 2

Add 1/4 cup of Powder Day IPA, and lower heat to a simmer. Cook for 3-5 minutes. Remove from heat.

Step 3

In a mixing bowl, add a splash of Powder Day IPA to ground beef. Mix in with fingers. Divide ground beef in half, then half again to make four equal-sized meat balls. On a cutting board, press each ball into a disc, then shape into patties, seasoning well on both sides.

Step 4

Heat a large skillet over medium-high heat. Add patties and cook for 2-4 minutes, until nicely browned. Flip, top with cheese, and cook until cheese is melted, about 2-3 minutes.

Step 5

Melt 2 tablespoons butter in a large skillet over medium heat. Add 2 slices of rye bread, top with two patties each, and caramelized onions. Top each with a slice of rye, cook for 3-5 minutes, until the bread is nicely browned, and flip patty melts over.

Step 6

Add remaining butter, tossing sandwiches around in melted butter. Cook for 3-5 minutes, remove patty melts from the pan, slice, and serve.

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