Grilled Cheese Burger

Last updated March 18th, 2025

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What’s better than a grilled cheese? A grilled cheese stuffed with a delicious burger patty, red onions, and chipotle mayo – a grilled cheese burger.

A grilled cheese patty melt with red onions and chipotle mayo stacked on a plate

If you’ve never had a patty melt before, it’s basically a grilled cheese burger. And what’s not to love about a grilled cheese with a burger inside? Extra cheese, crispy bread, and a juicy burger. Plus any toppings you want. We love making this simple grilled cheese burger at home for an easy restaurant style, date night in. 

What This Recipe Entails

Make a grilled cheese, make a burger, and combine them. Simple as that!

  • Prep Time: 10 minutes
  • Cook Time: 10 minutes

We think this recipe is best when made with homemade burger patties because they need to be hand shaped to fit the grilled cheese. We want to make sure every bite has both grilled cheese and burger in it after all! 

Note: This recipe works great as a base for whatever creation you can come up with. Don’t let our choices of ingredients keep you from making your personal best grilled cheese burger!

Grilled Cheese Burger Ingredients

  • Burger patties – Store-bought or homemade, either works. However, for best results we always make them homemade because you’ll need to shape the patties to fit the grilled cheese!
  • Grilled cheese – We prefer sourdough for the bread and American cheese for the best meltiness and flavor. However, make the grilled cheese however you think is best. If you have any questions about grilled cheeses, check out our post on making a great grilled cheese
  • Toppings – Thinly sliced red onion and a drizzle of homemade chipotle mayo are our go to patty melt toppings. But get creative here and make your own creation!

How To Make A Grilled Cheese Burger

This part is really simple, I promise. Make a grilled cheese, make a burger, and combine them. That’s really it.

  1. Hand shape the patties – For a grilled cheese burger to work, the burger patty has to fit well on the grilled cheese. This means hand shaping the patties to fit the bread. 
  2. Make a grilled cheese – Simple as that.
  3. Grill the burgers – Cook the burgers to your desired doneness. A meat thermometer is your friend here.
  4. Combine and top! – Open up your grilled cheese, add your burger, and top as desired. 
  5. Serve – Serve hot with a side of french fries and a cold beer.
A grilled cheese patty melt with red onions and chipotle mayo stacked on a plate

Serving Suggestions

What you serve with your burger is almost as important as the burger itself! Here are some of our favorite ways to turn this recipe into a delicious comforting dinner:

  • A burger deserves a beer – Grab a cold beer to go with your patty melt. We like to pair this burger with a light and refreshing beer like a German hefeweizen.
  • Make a side – Go with a classic like fries or onion rings. Or change it up with something a little more fun. We love making these burgers for Sunday football, so we often pair them with creamy buffalo chicken dip or other game day appetizers.
  • Get creative – A burger on a grilled cheese is just the start. Play around with adding your favorite condiments and burger toppings to this recipe. Instead of red onion and chipotle mayo, how about some caramelized onions or hot honey? The sky’s the limit.

Give our grilled cheese burger a try when you’re feeling like a greasy, gooey, cheesy, comforting dinner. And let us know what you think of it in the comments below!

Cheers!

Expert Tips

  • Start with high quality sourdough or other bread, a good bread makes this sandwich that much better.
  • Hand shape the patty to better fit the bread to make sure you have burger in every bite.
  • Everyone has their preference on how to make the perfect grilled cheese, don’t be afraid to make this step your own!
  • When closing the patty melt back up, press down on the top to spread the chipotle mayo evenly and make sure the melty cheese binds everything together.
  • Cut the patty melt in half just like a grilled cheese to make it more manageable.

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A grilled cheese patty melt with red onions and chipotle mayo stacked on a plate

Grilled Cheese Burger

Alex Langdon
What's better than a grilled cheese? A grilled cheese stuffed with a delicious burger patty, red onions, and chipotle mayo – a grilled cheese burger.
5 from 1 vote
Prep Time 10 minutes
Cook Time 10 minutes
Total Time 20 minutes
Course Dinner, Lunch, Main Course
Cuisine American
Servings 2 patty melts
Calories 868 kcal

Ingredients
 
 

  • 2 Burger patties Shapped to fit the bread
  • 4 slices sourdough bread
  • 4 teaspoons butter
  • 6 slices American cheese
  • Red onion thinly sliced
  • Chipotle mayo for drizzling

Instructions
 

How To Assemble The Grilled Cheese Patty Melt

  • Prepare our Classic Burger Patties. Hand-shape each patty to roughly the size of your sourdough bread slices, and flatten slightly.
  • While the grilled cheese sandwiches are cooking, grill the burger patties according to your preferred method, until desired doneness.
  • Transfer grilled cheese sandwiches to plates. Carefully open each grilled cheese and transfer cooked burger patties to the sandwiches. Top with sliced red onions and a drizzle of chipotle mayo, then close the grilled cheeses.
  • Serve immediately with your favorite side, a cold beer, and enjoy!

Notes

Classic Burger Patties: This is our original burger recipe if you want to make the patties from scratch (we highly recommend you do, since you’ll want to hand-shape the patties to fit the sourdough bread).
Chipotle mayo: We used Sir Kensington’s chipotle mayo – it’s our favorite store-bought since it has so much flavor! Alternatively, we like to make our own chipotle mayo at home, and it tastes great on this patty melt too. Get the recipe here if you want to try making your own chipotle mayo!
Preparing the grilled cheese sandwiches: The trick to making a perfectly gooey grilled cheese is to cook it slowly over medium-low heat, so the cheese has time to melt before the bread gets too crispy. Patience is key!
Assembling the patty melt: When opening up the grilled cheese sandwiches, pull back each slice of bread super slowly. If you’re not careful, it’s easy to accidentally tear the bread.
Serving suggestions: We chose a classic side to accompany our patty melt – crispy waffle fries!

Nutrition

Serving: 1patty meltCalories: 868kcalCarbohydrates: 75gProtein: 47gFat: 42gSaturated Fat: 22gPolyunsaturated Fat: 2gMonounsaturated Fat: 13gTrans Fat: 2gCholesterol: 156mgSodium: 1846mgPotassium: 539mgFiber: 3gSugar: 5gVitamin A: 845IUVitamin C: 1mgCalcium: 734mgIron: 7mg
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Keyword burger, cheese, chipotle mayo, grilled cheese, sourdough bread

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