Big King XL-style quadruple-burger recipe

Burger King Big King XL recipe: four flame-grilled beef burgers stacked with American cheese, smoky bacon, lettuce, tomato, onion, pickles and Big King sauce on a toasted sesame seed crown bun.

Ingredients

• For the burgers: 1.4 kg beef mince (20% fat)
• 2 tsp salt
• 1 tsp black pepper
• To assemble: 4 large sesame seed crown buns
• 8 slices American cheese
• 8 streaky bacon rashers
• ½ iceberg lettuce, shredded
• 1 white onion, sliced into rings
• 16-20 dill pickle slices
• For Big King sauce: 4 tbsp mayonnaise
• 2 tbsp ketchup
• 1 tbsp yellow mustard
• 1 tsp sweet pickle relish
• ½ tsp white vinegar
• ¼ tsp garlic powder

Method

1. Make the Big King sauce. Whisk mayonnaise, ketchup, mustard, relish, vinegar and garlic powder in a small bowl. Set aside.

2. Form 16 thin burgers (about 87g each) from the beef. Season both sides with salt and pepper.

3. Cook the bacon in a dry pan over medium-high for 3-4 minutes per side until crisp. Set aside.

4. Heat a heavy griddle over high heat until smoking. Cook the burgers in batches for 1-2 minutes per side — thin burgers, fast cook.

5. Top 8 of the burgers with American cheese in the last 30 seconds to melt. Stack: cheese-topped burger on plain burger, repeat, so you have 4 stacks of 2.

6. Toast the large buns cut-side down on the griddle for 30 seconds.

7. Build: bun base, Big King sauce, shredded lettuce, onion rings, pickle slices, 2-stacked burgers, 2 bacon rashers, more sauce, top bun.

8. Serve immediately with napkins , this is a serious burger.

Notes

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XL is essentially a quadruple-burger Big King with extra bacon , same sauce, more of everything.

For the standard Big King (double patty), see /recipes/burger-king/big-king/.

For the basic Double Cheeseburger, see /recipes/burger-king/double-cheeseburger/.