I wanted to share an amazing slider recipe that a good friend of mine recently surprised me with at a backyard BBQ. He packed some of the best ingredients on the planet into these mini burgers including bacon, beer, garlic, onions and mushrooms (Did I mention bacon?). These sliders are a little different than others you may have had in the past, as all of the ingredients I mentioned above are blended into the meat patties. See the full Guinness Slider recipe below.

Guinness Sliders
by Guy Grice, Cedar Park TX

Ingredients

• 4lbs 80/20 ground chuck
• 1 lb of bacon
• 4 pack of Guinness (2 for consumption 2 for the burgers)
• 2 yellow onions
• 1 Pkg of sliced button mushrooms
• 4 cloves of garlic
• 1 can of tomato paste
• 2 pkgs Hawaiian roles

Directions
Using a grilling skillet fry up bacon half way followed by both onions, mushrooms and garlic (garlic last as it will burn) hit generously with seasoned salt, put the goods into your pot along with the Guinness and half a can of tomato paste, cook until bacon is cooked and beer is reduced usually 20-25 min at med heat. Allow to cool and then blend only pulsing the blender as you do not want to liquefy the mixture, you want it smooth and a little chunky. Mix all the goodness in with your beef and patty away. I prefer the mini burgers but you can get as creative as you like. Allow the burgers a couple of hours to cool and form in the fridge then back to the grill, use the same grilling skillet you used to cook the bacon and onion mix…

Then have a Guinness and enjoy!

See the Guinness Kegerator to get Guinness on tap at your house.