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Completed patty melt with toasted bread melted cheese and onions siting on a flowered plate
Calvin Allen

Patty melt

Looking for an amazing combination it don't get much better than a nice hamburger patty that is covered in caramelized onions and melted cheese. With toasted bread that holds it together, your family is going to love this patty melts.
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Prep Time 15 minutes
Cook Time 30 minutes
Total Time 45 minutes
Servings: 2 Sandwiches
Course: Dinner, Main Course
Cuisine: American
Ingredients Equipment Method Notes

Ingredients
  

  • 2 ¼ pound hamburger patty
  • 1 small yellow onion
  • 4 slices of bread
  • 3 tablespoon mayonnaise
  • 2 Slices of cheese

Equipment

  • skillet
  • Spachlia
  • Knife

Method
 

  1. Heat pan over mild high heat
  2. Once that pan is heat add the hamburger patties
  3. Cut the onion in half and the pill of the outside of the onion
  4. Then slice up the onion
  5. Flip the patties so that they don’t burn but you will want to check thought out to get a good cook
  6. Turn down heat down to medium heat.
  7. Let the onions cook and mix them occasionally
  8. Once that hamburger is done then make sure to take it off the heat
  9. Right around now start to get the bread ready
  10. Onion should be almost done around now and you can lay done the bread and then some cheese and a patty and then some onions and the other piece of bread.
  11. Leave for about a minute then check to see if it is golden brown on the bread if you start to smell it burning then check it sooner and then flip it to the other side once the other side is golden brown
  12. Pill it off and get ready to enjoy

Notes

if you let the bread sit too long with the mayonnaise it gets wet and make the bread squishy 
I like to use the fat from hamburgers to cook the onions but if need can use a little oil if using none fatty mix