Taco Smash Burgers
What do you get when you combine all your favorite taco flavors in a smash burger? These delicious taco smash burgers! Made with a blend of Mexican chorizo and ground beef, this taco chorizo burger will satisfy two cravings, tacos and burgers, in one bite!
Servings: 14 small burger patties
Calories: 520kcal
Ingredients
- 16 oz. 80/20 ground beef
- 9 oz. beef chorizo - You can substitute for pork chorizo if you want.
- 1 tablespoon taco seasoning
- 8 cheddar cheese slices
- 8 hamburger buns
For the Pico de Gallo
- 2 large tomatoes diced
- 1/4 large sweet onion diced
- 1 jalapeno veins and seeds removed, diced
- 1/4 cup chopped cilantro
- juice of 1/2 lime
- 1 tablespoon minced garlic
- salt and pepper to taste
Toppings for Taco Smash Burgers
- avocado slices
- sour cream
- shredded lettuce
Instructions
- Combine all pico de gallo ingredients in a medium bowl and mix. Refrigerate for a few hours before serving.
- Preheat your flat top grill or electric griddle to about 425 to 450 degrees.
- Combine ground beef, chorizo, and taco seasoning in a medium bowl and mix well.
- Form meat mixture into balls about the size of 1/3 cup.
- Place chorizo burger balls on your heated flat top grill. Let them cook for 2-3 minutes before touching them. *Note - You do not need to oil or butter your cooking surface. The fat from your burgers will be plenty to grease your flat top or griddle.
- After burgers have been cooking for 2-3 minutes, gently "smash" them down using a spatula until they are about 1/4" to 1/2" thick.
- Continue to let smashed burgers cook on the 1st side until the burgers are about 75% done.
- Flip your taco smash burgers, taking care to scrap underneath the burger crust so that it stays intact. Top each chorizo burger patty with 1/2 slice cheddar cheese, and continue to cook burgers on 2nd side until done.
- When burgers are almost done cooking, toast hamburger buns on your flat top grill in the leftover grease.
- Remove taco smash burgers from the grill and serve immediately.
- Build chorizo taco burgers with your favorite taco toppings: pico de gallo, sour cream, shredded lettuce, avocado slices, taco sauce, etc.