Fajita Burger

Here is how my thought process went last night while I was preparing for dinner.  I wanted a burger and I had the ground beef on hand, but no bun.  It was getting ready to storm outside and I just did not feel like making a run to the grocery store just for a bun.  I looked around the kitchen and found some left over crusty french peasant bread from a night or two ago and decided I could create some sort of an open faced burger.  I realized I had onions and an orange pepper so I got them sauteeing in a skillet with some canola oil.  Since I love Southerwestern type Mexican food, I decided to combine the flavors and ingredients used to make a fajita with a burger.  Thus, the Fajita Open Faced Burger on Texas Toast was created.

I brushed the thick sliced bread with some butter and place it in a 375 degree oven for about 10 minutes to get nice and toasty.  The onions and orange peppers were already sautee slowly in a skillet and my burger was in a pan cooking over a medium high flame for about 5 minutes per side.  Meanwhile, I made a sauce for the burger by combining mayonnaise, ketchup and some hot sauce.  When the peppers and onions were cooked all the way down and were sweet and caramelized, I hit them with a few dashes of Worchestershire sauce and placed them ontop of the burger while it was still in the pan.  I topped the peppers and onions with a handful of pickled jalapenos and some white cheddar cheese and placed the pan in the oven just long enough for the cheese to melt.  

To assemble, I spread a layer of the fajita burger sauce on the Texas toast and placed the onion, pepper, jalapeno and cheese topped burger on the toast.  A few dashes of hot sauce for good measure and the Fajita Burger was complete!