Portobello Mushroom Burgers are veggie burgers that even meat lovers will enjoy, flavored with balsamic vinegar and topped with classic burger fillings.
This Sandwich Recipe is a great alternative to a Classic Burger. It’s the perfect dinner for anyone who doesn’t eat meat or if you’re trying to make healthier recipes.
This Veggie Burger recipe makes the perfect beef alternative. The mushrooms are tossed in a mixture of balsamic vinegar and oil that adds lots of flavor to them. Then they’re topped off with cheese, pickles, tomato, onion, and other favorite burger fillings for more flavor and texture.
Portobello Burgers are perfect for a vegetarian diet, but it’s a delicious Dinner Recipe even if you do eat meat. The Portobello mushrooms make an excellent meat alternative. They have a nice earthy flavor that easily absorbs the other flavors around them, and they’re the perfect size for the burger. Plus, they grill up in just a few minutes!
Though they have less protein than a typical Cheeseburger, they are also lower in calories and high in vitamins. A Portobello Burger is the most delicious way to enjoy a burger without red meat. You can make them for meatless Mondays, or any other time you want a burger, but don’t want to handle raw meat.
DELICIOUS SIDE DISHES
Potato Salad
Easy Macaroni Salad
Easy Cole Slaw
Southern Baked Beans
TIPS FOR MAKING PORTOBELLO MUSHROOM BURGERS
- Prep: Start the recipe by preheating your grill to medium-high heat. Then slice the tomato and onion, and set them to the side until you assemble the sandwich.
- Mushrooms: Add the mushroom caps to a large bowl with balsamic vinegar, oil, salt, and pepper to flavor the mushrooms. Toss the ingredients together until the mushrooms are thoroughly coated.
- Cook: Add the mushrooms to the grill to cook for 6-8 minutes on each side. As they’re cooking brush the Portobello mushrooms with the oil and vinegar mixture to continue flavoring them. Remove the mushrooms from the grill.
- Buns: Spread mayonnaise over one side of each bun. Place the bottom buns on the grill at medium heat, and toast them mayonnaise side down. Take the buns from the grill after a minute and then add the top bun.
- Assemble: Add the pickles, mushrooms, Provolone cheese, onions, lettuce, and tomato to each bottom bun. Then top that off with the toasted top bun.
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VARIATIONS ON PORTOBELLO MUSHROOM BURGERS
- Topping ideas: For some more sandwich toppings add coleslaw, cucumber, avocado, mushrooms, baby spinach, or arugula. If you don’t care about keeping it vegetarian, you could also add on some bacon.
- Sauces: You can also add additional sauces to the burger like garlic aioli, mustard, ketchup, ranch, blue cheese dressing, or BBQ sauce.
- Onions: Instead of just using raw onion, you could cook up the onions to make a caramelized onion addition to the recipe.
- Cheese: There are so many different kinds of cheeses that would taste amazing in this recipe like provolone cheese, Swiss cheese, Pepper Jack, mozzarella, American cheese, or goat cheese.
- Buns: In place of a typical hamburger bun, you could try out brioche, pretzel buns, or even simple sliced bread to make this recipe more like a Patty Melt. You can toast them in the oven, like in our Oven-Baked Burger, or on the stovetop, as we do in our Stovetop Burger Recipe.
FRIED SIDES
Beer Battered Onion Rings
Crispy Sweet Potato Fries
KFC Potato Wedges (Copycat)
Loaded Garlic French Fries
HOW TO STORE PORTOBELLO MUSHROOM BURGERS
- Serve: To keep this recipe fresh, if you have any leftovers don’t leave them at room temperature for more than 2 hours.
- Store: Take the mushroom patty and other fillings out of the bun and store them in an airtight container in the fridge for 3-4 days. Then serve them in a fresh bun to eat.
- Freeze: You can also freeze the sandwich filling for up to 3 months. Let it thaw in the fridge before reheating.
Ingredients
- 4 portobello mushroom caps , stems removed
- 2 tablespoons balsamic vinegar
- 2 tablespoons olive oil
- 1 teaspoon kosher salt
- 1/2 teaspoon coarse ground black pepper
- 2 tablespoons unsalted butter
- 1 red onion , thinly sliced
- 4 slices Provolone cheese
- 1/3 cup mayonnaise
- 4 large hamburger buns
- 4 leaves lettuce
- 4 slices tomato
- 8 pickle chips
Instructions
- Preheat grill to a medium-high setting.
- In a large bowl add the mushrooms, vinegar, oil, salt, and pepper.
- Toss well to coat.
- Add mushrooms to the grill and cook for 6-8 minutes on each side, brushing with oil-vinegar mixture often.
- Spread buns with mayonnaise and add to grill mayonnaise side down.
- Cook for 1 minute until browned.
- Remove bun bottoms and add bun tops, mayonnaise side down while you assemble burgers.
- Add pickles, mushrooms, Provolone cheese, onions, lettuce, tomato, and finally the bun tops.
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This recipe was amazing. I don’t normally care for mushrooms but the picture of your mushroom burger looked so delicious, we had to try it. You are right. The flavors from the other ingredients in the burger really made me believe I was eating a grilled burger. Toasting the bun with mayo added to the texture. We really loved it. Now I don’t have to worry about the high price of hamburger and it’s definitely more healthy. Thank you Sabrina.
Why do you have 2 tablespoons of butter in this recipe? There is no instruction of where to include it. Sounds delicious!!!!?
If no grill available, can this be modified for stovetop, oven, broiler, etc.?