This smashburger salad is our favorite way to enjoy a burger bowl these days! It’s from my 4th cookbook, Easy Everyday and can be throw together in less than 30 minutes. Refreshing lettuce and all your favorite burger toppings, under a blanket of smashed patties covered in melty cheese. So delicious and satisfying!
One year ago today, my 4th cookbook Easy Everyday was released into the world! 
It has been so fun watching you make alllll the recipes inside of the book! This is so jam-packed with so many great dishes. Sometimes I FORGET what is inside my own books because I am constantly testing so many new recipes. And then I flip through and see something I adore and have to make it over and over. Love them!
If you don’t have a copy of Easy Everyday, you can grab yours here. It’s on MAJOR sale right now!
And if you’re new to Easy Everyday, it is packed with over 100 fantastic recipes, from breakfast to dinner to snacks to treats to mocktails and more. We have simple and flavorful dishes for every time time of day, some entertaining snacks, another one (!) of my signature sauces & dressings chapters (the fridge essentials that elevate everything!), so many tips for how I get meals prepped and ready for the week along with a lot of our family favorites. Along with so much more.
Inside, you will find:
- Over 100+ effortless recipes for everyday life.
- An assortment of all sorts of recipes, many of them meatless and vegetarian.
- My 10-minute meal prep strategy for EVERY recipe.
- My pantry and fridge essentials, aka the recipes I can’t live without. They change the game for easy meals.
- My tips and tricks for how to get a meal on the table for your family, consistently and in an enjoyable way, without stress!
- Low-maintenance, uncomplicated dishes!
- All my usual ramblings and of course, photos for everything. Woohoo!
To celebrate one year of Easy Everyday, I’m giving you a sneak peek recipe of my smashburger salad, which is one of my absolute FAVORITE recipes in the book! I am so thankful for all of your support over the years. You mean the world to me!
The smashburger salad relies on those super thin smashed patties with scraggly edges and crispy sides, melty cheese right on top and so much freaking flavor. It’s more than just my regular cheeseburger salad. It’s the elevated, updated version! A grown up version.
The best part is that it has a caramelized onion vinaigrette that’s in the book!! Now, you’ll have to grab the book to get that vinaigrette recipe, but in the meantime, here’s an excellent dill pickle vinaigrette that goes too!
I could drink pickle dressing, to be honest.
Smashburger Salad
Smashburger Salad
This smashburger salad is our favorite way to enjoy a burger bowl these days! Refreshing lettuce and all your favorite burger toppings, under a blanket of smashed patties covered in melty cheese. So delicious and satisfying!
- 1 pound lean ground beef
- kosher salt and pepper
- 2 tablespoons unsalted butter
- 6 slices sharp white cheddar cheese
- 10 ounces butter lettuce
- 1 ½ cups cherry tomatoes, halved
- ½ cup chopped pickles
- dill pickle vinaigrette, for topping
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Heat the butter in a large cast iron skillet over medium heat. Season the ground beef with lots of salt and pepper, then divide it into 4 pieces.
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Once the skillet is hot, press each piece of ground beef into the skillet, using the bottom of a jar or spatula to smash it into the skillet. Cook for 5 to 6 minutes, then flip and smash the other side into the skillet. You want golden, crisp edges!
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Place a piece of cheddar over each smash burger. Let it melt completely, then remove the burgers from the skillet.
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Place the lettuce in a bowl and toss it with a big pinch of salt and pepper. Add in the tomatoes and pickles. Tear or cut the smash burgers into pieces and scatter them over the salad.
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Drizzle with the caramelized shallot vinaigrette and serve!
Live for this.
