shake shack copy cat burger

Even though I’ve been in Mexico for three weeks and loving all the tacos, I’ve been craving a really good burger! I remembered that I never posted the copy cat Shake Shack burger recipe from my Access Hollywood TV debut - Ahhhh! still so weird saying that!

Anyway, here it is below and even though Memorial Day has passed we are still in prime time grill season. Enjoy!

Ingredients For The Shack Sauce

• 1/2 cup Hellman's mayonnaise

• 1 tablespoon Dijon mustard

• 1 teaspoon Heinz ketchup

• 1/4 teaspoon kosher dill pickling brine (just the juice from a dil pickle jar)

• Pinch of cayenne pepper

  Additional Ingredients 

• 1 hamburger potato bun

• 2 tablespoons unsalted butter, melted

• ½ pound ground beef (80/20) formed into 1 inch thick hockey pucks or balls 

• 1 piece green leaf lettuce 

• Plum tomato, sliced about ¼ inch thick 

• 1 slice American cheese

• 2 tablespoons unsalted melted butter

• Salt & pepper 

  Directions

• Make shack sauce in a small bowl. Taste and set aside. It’s better to let it sit in the fridge for an hour so the flavors develop more.

•  Heat up a cast iron skillet on medium low heat, brush hamburger bun with melted butter and place hamburger buns buttered side down in the pan for 2-3 minutes until it gets golden brown. Remove and set aside 

•  While the buns are browning, salt & pepper the ground beef. 

•  Remove the hamburger buns and then increase heat to medium heat. Add the ground beef and using a spatula firmly smash the burger until it forms into a thin round patty about ¼ inch thick. Cook without touching it for 2ish minutes. Flip and add American cheese on both burgers and let American cheese melt. 

• Add the cheeseburgers onto the potato buns then top with lettuce, tomato & add the shack sauce on the top bun!