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Elk Sliders with Pancetta Bacon and Smoked Mozzarella

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Do you feel like you need to go on a diet and cut back on your calorie intake for the day? It’s simple: make your favorite meal into half the size, just like these mini elk sliders. Half the size must does mean half the calories, right?

Ingredients

  • 1 pound Ground Elk
  • 2 Tablespoons Whole Grain Mustard
  • 1 dash Bread Crumbs
  • 1 whole Egg
  • 1 Tablespoon Garlic Powder
  • 1 Tablespoon Worcestershire
  • 1 Tablespoon A1
  • 8 slices Smoked Mozzarella
  • 8 slices Pancetta Bacon
  • 8 whole Hawaiian Sweet Rolls

Preparation

1) In a large bowl, add mustard, bread crumbs, egg, garlic powder, Worcestershire, A1 sauce, salt and pepper to ground elk meat. Mix all ingredients by hand and then form into small patties. Use a ¼ cup measuring cup to measure how much meat to use when forming your patties. Place meat on tinfoil and press gently with your thumb, creating a small indention in the center. This will help keep patties from shrinking when cooking.

2) Preheat the barbecue grill to high temperature.

3) I recommend leaving the elk burgers on the tinfoil while cooking on the grill. The elk meat is very lean and can have the tendency to dry out if overcooked. Cooking on tinfoil reduces the risk of overcooking.

4) Cook for 7 minutes or until brown and then flip patties. Continue cooking on the other side until brown, about 7 minutes. Add smoked mozzarella cheese to the top of burgers during the last 2 minutes of cooking. Close the lid and melt the cheese.

5) While cooking your burgers, place pancetta bacon slices on tinfoil and place it on the grill for the last few minutes of cooking. Toast buns on the grill as well.

6) Place elk sliders on Hawaiian Sweet Rolls, top with a slice of pancetta bacon and a few cherry tomatoes and you are set! Enjoy!

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sarcasticquilter on 6.20.2010

These sound fantastic and as soon as my husband brings another Elk home this winter, I’m making them!

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heidimay18 on 8.26.2011

I did change this up a bit. I made regular sized burgers and I didn’t do the bacon because we aren’t a fan of bacon on burgers. I also substituted the mozzarella for cheddar because that’s what I had. The flavor of the burger is so good though, thank you for the recipe!

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