Air fryer cheeseburger bombs
Golden biscuit pockets stuffed with saucy beef and a hidden cube of melty cheddar, like a cheeseburger you can hold in one hand.
- 45 min total
- 30 min hands-on
- Follow-a-recipe easy
- Serves 4
- About $2.06 a serving
- 680 calories
Dolly says: Read the steps once before you start. Everything goes smoother after that.
Ingredients
For 4 servings.
- 12 oz 85/15 ground beef
- ½ yellow onion, finely chopped
- 2 tbsp ketchup
- 1 tbsp yellow mustard
- 4 oz cheddar cheese
- 1 can refrigerated biscuit dough
- 1 tbsp butter, melted
- 1 tsp sesame seeds (optional)
From your pantry
- ½ tsp salt
- ¼ tsp black pepper
Each serving has about 680 calories, 29 g protein, 53 g carbs and 39 g fat, and costs about $2.06 at typical US grocery prices. Both are estimates from what the recipe uses.
Missing something?
- No 85/15 ground beef? 90/10 ground beef works.
- No yellow onions? White onions or red onions work.
- No yellow mustard? Dijon mustard works.
- No cheddar cheese? Shredded cheddar or Monterey Jack cheese or Mexican blend cheese works.
- No butter? Ghee works.
Steps
Tap an underlined word for a quick explanation.
Heat a large over medium-high, add the beef and onion, and cook 7 to 8 minutes, breaking up the beef, until no pink is left.
Skillet. A skillet is a frying pan: wide and flat with low, sloped sides. The shape lets steam escape, so food browns instead of stewing.
How you’ll know: It’s the pan you’d fry an egg in, and a 10 or 12 inch one handles most recipes.
Medium-high heatTimer: 7 min 30 sec
Food safety: Ground beef, pork and lamb are done at 160°F. When it’s cooked through there’s no pink left anywhere in the pan.
Spoon off the fat, stir in the ketchup, mustard, salt and pepper, and spread it on a plate to cool 10 minutes.
Timer: 10 min
Dolly’s tip: Hot filling makes the dough sticky and it tears. Cool is easier to seal.Cut the cheddar into 8 .
Cube. Cubing means cutting food into chunky, even squares, usually three quarters of an inch to an inch. Same-size cubes cook at the same speed and brown on every side.
How you’ll know: Your pieces look like a handful of sugar cubes, a little bigger than diced, all close to the same size.
Separate the biscuits and press each into a 4-inch circle with your fingers.
Spoon about 3 tablespoons of beef and a cube of cheese onto each circle, pull the edges up around it, and pinch firmly to seal.
Dolly’s tip: Pinch it closed like a little purse, then roll it smooth and set it seam side down.Heat the air fryer to 330°F. Brush the tops with the butter and sprinkle with sesame seeds if you like.
Melt. Melting means gently heating something solid, like butter or cheese, until it turns liquid. Low or medium heat keeps it from browning or burning.
How you’ll know: It’s smooth and liquid, and butter may foam a little but hasn’t turned brown.
Air fry 4 at a time, seam side down with space between them, 9 to 11 minutes, until deep all over.
Golden brown. Golden brown is the color of good toast, somewhere between yellow and light brown. It means the outside is cooked and crisp but not burnt.
How you’ll know: It looks like toast and smells toasty; dark brown with a bitter smell means it went too far.
Timer: 10 min
Dolly’s tip: Tap the bottom of one. If it sounds hollow and looks golden, the dough is baked through.Let them cool 3 minutes before eating. The cheese inside is molten.
Timer: 3 min
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