You can never go wrong with a perfectly cooked juicy burger. There is something comforting about that familiar bite when a little grease drips down your pinky. At least there is for me. It really is hard to make burgers better, but I discovered the secret. This avocado stuffed burger recipe is life changing. Don’t believe me, go read the comments because these become a weekly staple in most households.
Avocado Stuffed Burger
So this recipe was born thanks to some awesome farmers I always have at my local farmers market. I will admit that I am lucky I live in California and always have access to delicious avocados. One of my local farmers at a plethora of ripe avocados and he threw me a bag. My first thought was what am I going to do with all of these and then I realized I shouldn’t be complaining about the excess of green gold.
I only needed 2 avocados to make this delicious avocado stuffed burger. I remembered that I had a couple pounds of delicious grass fed ground beef defrosted from Butcher Box and just started looking around for inspiration. Sun-Dried Tomatoes and Lemons caught my eye and I decided that’s where I was going with this one. Boom, avocado stuffed burger for the win.
Like I stated earlier, this avocado stuffed burger recipe is phenomenal and you will find yourself eating more of the filling than you put in the burgers. I am a self admitted happy fat kid and you should have seen my face making these burgers. Truth is, if you ever catch me in the kitchen my face is normally covered with some sort of delicious creation. Avocados from these burgers, chocolate from all my brownie creations and so on. My theory is I am saving dishes by licking the bowl.
Avocado Recipes
If you run into a similar problem as I did with the extra avocados, you will need some other recipes to use. Of course I would recommend this avocado stuffed burger the most, and here are some other favorites.
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Avocado Stuffed Burger
Ingredients
- 2 pounds grass-fed ground beef from the awesome Butcher Box
- 2 avocados ripe
- 1 cup sun-dried tomatoes chopped NO OIL
- Juice of 1/2 a lemon
- Zest of 1 lemon
- 1 tablespoon black pepper
- 2 teaspoons sea salt makes it salty depending on your sun-dried tomatoes
- Bacon fat Optional
Instructions
- Preheat your grill to medium-medium high heat
- Put your ground beef in a large mixing bowl and add black pepper, 1 teaspoon of sea salt, and the zest of one lemon
- Mix well and then using your hands form into thin patties all the same size (you need them thin because you will be using two of them to make one patty)
- In another mixing bowl combine avocados, sun dried tomatoes, lemon juice, and the remaining teaspoon of sea salt.
- Mash the avocado and mix ingredients well to get as smooth as you like
- Place your avocado mixture on top of the bottom of half of the burgers, ensuring you leave room to seal the burgers without it leaking out
- Put your other patty over the top of your mixture and pinch the edges of your burgers together to seal all the way around
- Now go out and grill to your liking. I normally do about 6-8 Minutes per side on my grill but yours may be different. Ensure you cook evenly on both sides of the burger or you will end up with an undercooked and an overcooked side
- While grilling, I drizzle my burgers with bacon grease and it adds an amazing flavor
- When done grilling, allow your burgers to rest for 10 minutes and then serve. You can use the rest of your avocado mixture to top your burgers with and go to town
- Enjoy!
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Brilliant! Absolutely loved these. The tanginess of the sundried tomato works so well with the avocado and meat. Flavour explosion – another great recipe George.
Would this work on a Foreman grill?
Can you make these and freeze them for use later?
I haven’t tried but in theory it would work perfectly
No grill, curious how these would fare in the oven and cooking time?
I am sure they would be delicious, I have never cooked a burger in the oven though so I don’t know
Made them on the stove in a frying pan on Friday, they came out amazing! thank you
You are so welcome
DELICIOUS! But for step 6 “Place your avocado mixture on the bottoms of half of the burgers, ensuring you leave room to seal the burgers without it leaking out” – don’t you mean “Place your avocado mixture on top of half of the burgers, ensuring you leave room to seal the burgers without it leaking out”?
Oh yes, place your avocado mixture on top of the bottom half burger.
We tried these avocado burgers last night. There is SO much potential, but the 2 TBsp of pepper was overpowering. Didn’t anyone else think so?? We will try again with about 1/2 TBsp of pepper next time. Otherwise, these are going to be awesome.
Ah I am sorry to hear that, I will adjust to add pepper to taste :)
We just tried this recipe. It’s delicious. Check out our picture :
https://twitter.com/myPaleoPal/status/505379336686669826
Made this today, and it was awesome. Wish I could post the pics here. This rating thing won’t let me select 5 stars? I select it, them it goes to 3 :(
You can always post your pictures on any Social Media site, I love when people share their own pictures! Use #CivilizedCaveman or you can always tag Civilized Caveman Cooking Creations on Facebook so we can all see them!
Made this today and my avocado went everywhere when I was cooking these burgers because I didn’t pinch the beef patty edges well enough .. nevertheless it was a magically wonderful explosion of flavours in my mouth. THANK YOU.
Sad it exploded, glad it was a magical wonderful one :)
Yum… going to have to experiment with something other than Avocado though (cream cheese perhaps) – I love Avo’s but the quality of them in this part of the world makes them almost impossible to eat… bookmarked for the next time I find a good one – Reflex Reactions
Hi! New to Paleo and not a very experienced cook, but tried to make these tonight and I had a problem with the avocado mixture coming out the sides! Not sure what I could’ve done differently….
Hmmmm, possibly used less?
I have been wanting to make these Avocado Stuffed Burgers since I first saw them after I bought your Caveman App (which is awesome by the way) when it was fist launced and I finally made them last night for supper and wow they are delicious. However due to living in Northwestern Ontario we have a ton of snow this winter and our BBQ is buried so I made them on the stove in a frying pan and they were still delicious. Thank you for all your hard work and delicious recipes which I have made many of.
I’m so glad they came out well on the frying pan ;) enjoy!
OMG! I made these one night for dinner and they were awesome!!!! Anything with avocados grabs my attention… this was so easy!
Just an FYI, in your Cavemen Feast android app, while the ingredient list says 2 teaspoons salt divided, the directions say to add 1*tablespoon* salt to the ground beef. Thankfully I’ve made this enough times that I realized it before adding it (one of my go-to recipes–I simply *love* this dish! ).
Do you think these can be prepared and frozen???
Definitely!
Yum!! Added diced bacon to my beef tonight and chilli to the avocado – even more amazing
Thank sounds delicious :)
Made these tonight with Yucca Root fries. Absolutely delicious! THANKS!
p.s. I left out the sun dried tomatoes as I can’t handle nightshades. Didn’t miss them :-)
That sounds delicious, so glad you loved them
I love this recipe. Here in Minneapolis, there are restaurants famous for their “Juicy Lucy’s”; essentially cheese stuffed burgers. I get a craving for them, and these have sufficiently slaked my craving.
That is awesome :)
Made this last night and I absolutely LOVED it! The flavors are amazing and each bite was surprising. I split the recipe in half but forgot to split the lemon zest and juice in half so it was a bit tart but wonderful! Thank you!!!!!!
You are so welcome :)
These are fabulous!!! So glad I made enough to have for dinner again tomorrow night. Because of my forgetfulness & lack of time I was forced to tweak the recipe a bit…forgot sun dried tomatoes so I used garlic…no time to fry bacon for the fat, so I let a pad of butter melt on each patty during the 10 minute rest. The were so yummy that my husband didn’t even use catsup…which is a big deal!
Thanks George!!!
Woohoo, I am so glad you loved them
Yes it is. We are fixing it. Thank you
You had me at AVO……. cado……
Can’t wait to make these tomorrow! Gracias Señor
Your welcome, they are amazing
Local farmers market???? I must know all about this :-) Is it all year? I Also had to tell you that I’m a fat-aholic too. I could seriously live without my natural sweeteners, but fat? No way. I can barely go a few hours without fat. Seriously. LOVE it :-)
We will chat when you get here Kelly
Prepared them last night so I could have one for breakfast this morning. Loving avocado and ground beef this recipe I just had to try. Delicious. So glad I found your website and recipes – thanks for putting them out there!!
What brand of sun-dried tomatoes do you use?
I used the ones I buy from Tropical Traditions for this one
Bacon optional, ha…funny man! Can’t wait to make these, thanks!
Your welcome
I made these tonight, and they were ok.
The burger meat was great, but the avocado filling was just far too salty.
I think my problem was the sun dried tomatoes. I brought dried ones to make sure they where not swimming in nasty cheap oil, but forgot that the dried ones are generally about 10% salt to preserve them. I soaked them for a bit in hot water, and chopped them into the avocado mix. at the time, it looked a lot of tomato, and wish I had only put in a bit at a time and tasted it, as the saltiness of the tomatoes ruining the avocado filling.
will try again though and adjust the recipe to either exclude the sun dried tomatoes, or use far far less of them.
Stuart I will update the recipe to say be careful with the salt
Did these last night with a pork/venison combo for the meat. SO GOOD!
Made these for my new boyfriend last night. He was super impressed and devoured them! I love these awesome burgers :)
Woohoo I hope I am responsible for a successful relationship
I LOVE your recipes, they always turn out amazing! These are my next challenge tonight, just wondering can I replace the sun dried tomatoes with fresh ones? I can’t get hold of any sun dried where I live! Look forward to trying them, and thanks for the recipe!
Yes you can there just won’t be as much contrast in flavor
I have made these before and they were great, just like everyone else has said. I do love the lemon/sundried tomoato mixture, but I also just love the basic idea of stuffing the avocado inside the burger! I might try some other flavor themes too like chilli powder/chpotle with salsa on top, or even a curry flavor with caramalized onions on top… Anyway, I just wanted to mention in case anyone else was wondering that I don’t hve a grill and these worked great in the oven too. Just laid them on top of some parchment paper on a cookie sheet at about 400 for maybe 10 min or so? Can’t remember exactly but just keep an eye on them and no need to flip. Thanks!
Haha that is a true statement Katie
This concept is fantastic – I will most definitely make these again but with some tweaks.
The one major problem I found with this recipe is that the avocado mix (after cooked)
came out way too salty! It was so salty that I had to scrape out the avocado mixture from my burger.
I would recommend
1. maybe 1 teaspoon vs 1 tablespoon for the avocado mix.
2. kick up some more spices for the meat and possible add some very finely chopped onions
Otherwise this is great.. starts to get me thinking of what else I can stuff inside these burgers
Ah Rick I have a heavy hand for salt because I love it. Awesome recommendations
this recipe is awesome! oven-baked mine on a foil lined baking tray for 15min at 180C and then 5min under the grill – absolute perfection! loving that you only have the mixing bowls to clean :)
great recipe! oven-baked these on a foil lined baking tray at 180C for 15min and then 5min under the grill, absolute perfection! loving that you only have the mixing bowl to clean :)
Oh that’s awesome. Thanks for doing it in the oven and letting me know :)
Man, these were awesome! I ate them with portabello mushrooms for buns. They looked so good even my non-paleo husband wanted to try one. I gave him a half, because I only made two and he had already had his own two regular burgers. He found it delicious, too. So next time I’ll have to make avocado burgers for the both of us. Thanks for the great recipe!
Awesome, so glad you enjoyed :)
OMG!!!! This is probably one of the best things I have ever eaten in my entire life!!! Love it so much. I omitted the sundried tomatoes (I just can’t acquire a taste for them), and added garlic and onion. Thanks for the fantastic recipe!
That sounds delicious Mona. You are so welcome
I’ve made this a few times now so I figured I should stop by and tell you…from here on out, I will not be able to make a burger without stuffing it with avocado. Thanks. Thanks a lot.
Seriously though, I didn’t even use the tomatoes and I cooked them inside, and they were so good. Probably going to try some on the grill this weekend. This is only the second recipe I’ve made of yours, but no doubt I will be back for more :)
Thank you for taking the time to come tell me Annie. I really appreciate it :)
I found your site through Facebook and Pinterest. I have been needing to find some paleo gluten free recipes for my family so the timing couldn’t have been any better. I made your advocado burgers last week for my family. I did not have the tomatoes on hand so I sustituted with some fresh spaghetti sauce I had on hand but other than that followed the recipe to a ‘T’. They were the ‘bomb’!! ;) We LOVED them and are not big fans of advocado either! We will be having these on a regular basis now. Thanks!!
Welcome Lisa. So glad to have you :)
Why did i wait so long to make these…amazing
I don’t know Rob, but I am glad you finally made them
Loved the recipe. I decided to make these this night and they were amazing. The first bite oozed the warm comforting avocado and it melted straight away. And the blend of the lemon and beef combined so well with the avocado. I seriously recommend whoever is reading this to try this recipe. And don’t hold back on the pepper it adds a wonderful smokyness to these burgers when they brown on the grill. Honestly even though this recipe was simple it was oh so intoxicating. I made these on grilled eggplant as buns with a little bit of bleu cheese crumbled on them. Although next time I might try goat cheese. But anyway enough of the sexual food talk. Thanks for the awesome recipe, I really enjoyed. And I love the blog by the way. We both have a very similar story when it comes to coming of health you and I .
16 years old and lost 100 lbs. You are amazing. Keep up the great work
Great recipe and great site! Quick question: Why do you say no oil on the sun dried tomatoes? I was forced to use store bought olive oil packed sun-dried tomatoes and made sure to drain off as much of the oil before mixing. The recipe turned out fine, so i’m left wondering, “Could it have been better if I didn’t have the oil?”
Joey glad you liked it. I just say no oil as some people wouldn’t drain them all and end up with oily burgers. You got it nailed
Killer! I made them last night, and even my kids (who were skeptical initially) LOVED them. Going to have a leftover one for breakfast. Thanks, and keep it up.
So awesome. Glad you loved them and hope it tastes good for breakfast
What an awesome idea, can’t wait to try it!
What a wonderful idea, can’t wait to try it!
Its delicious
Jesus-tap-dancing-Christ…….. These are AMAZING! Thank you sir for another awesome recipe!!
You are so welcome, I love this recipe
Just a quick question?? How and does the meat stay together without an egg as a binder like most other burger recipes? Just waitin for my ground beef to defrost so I can make these…. Hurry hurry hurry :)
I rarely ever use eggs in my burgers, especially in grass fed beef but these stay together just fine. If you are nervous just add an egg but you don’t need them
These look fantastic! I’m a huge avocado addict!
Question for you – I am just getting started on the Paleo lifestyle (still working on cutting out grains and such) and I can guarantee my bread obsessed husband is going to have a tough time eating these without a hamburger bun. Any suggestions for an alternative to a hamburger bun? I thought maybe a portobello mushroom, but he outright refused that because the “texture will be different”.
Either lettuce or portabello mushrooms were going to be my recommendation. There are lots of sites tht have paleo bread recipes etc. I would just do a quick google search
Ok thank you! I found one made from sweet potatoes, so I may try that.
we just made these for dinner…awesome! truly amazing
And how are they
freaking genius!
Thank you
Totally amazing. Have made it twice since. Definitely recommend making lots of the avocado filling to slather on just about anything. I put some on my omelet this morning, but it would make a great dip for veggies and stuff too.
Oh yes I have been making tons and tons. So glad you enjoyed
Avocado. Be still my heart. What a genius idea. I’m not usually a big burger person, but this is a must!
Let me know how you like It
OMG!!! So AMAZING!!! Thank you for all that you!! You ROCK!!
You are so welcome. I love this recipe too
Wonderful!!
Awesome Jeffrey, so glad you liked them
I made these last night and ate 2 before I bothered looking up from my plate. Holy mackerel, were they good! I have 2 more of waiting for me tonight. This will become one of my “go to” staples recipes. Thanks!
You are most welcome. So glad to hear you love them as much as I do. I will be making this often as well.
Just made these tonight! An hour later I’m still basking in the afterglow. Wow!
Woohoo that makes me happy :)
when are you coming to south florida so you can cook this glorious food? lol
Haha that I dont know
I will happily guarantee you a full kitchen and a box =)
Haha ok I’ll keep that in mind.
I just recently made the jump to Paleo and found your blog. Made these for dinner tonight and it was like a little piece of Heaven in my mouth. Thank You!!
Woohoo I always love to hear I can provide heaven on a plate, thank you for making my night and welcome to the Paleosphere
This sounds HEAVENLY. Love avocado (who doesn’t?). I’ll definitely be trying this.
Great site!
They taste heavenly too, can’t wait to hear how you like them and thank you so much for the compliments on the site
Looks amazing. I too love avocados on top of burgers (and absolutely anything else). Just picked up 4 yesterday… as soon as they’re ripe I may have to make this.
This was delicious for breakfast too Katie so do it up.
i ALWAYS top burgers with avocado but never though to stuff them! Love the idea and I’m sad that I literally just finished eating a grass fed burger for dinner. Sigh, not I’ll have to wait until breakfast to make this!
I found this website and your Facebook page from a link on Pinterest. Funny how things work. I’ve been interested in Paleo from listening to Jimmy Moore’s podcast and last night was thinking I need to jumpstart my stagnating program with a sugar detox–I had really been slacking. Meant to be. lol Thank you so much.
Well I am glad you found my website. Welcome and good luck