Music, food, and drinks: Festival Season is coming! Long days turn into nights, you are sharing music history moments with thousands of strangers, all singing and jumping to the same beat. It’s a marathon, so you need to stay hydrated and feed your soul. This is KittiePIG, a non-alcoholic brew developed specifically for the heavy music fan.
Whether you are alcohol free, or just wanting to go all day without bogging down, this brew will satisfy your thirst, and deliver a bounce of flavor that plays well with those food truck offerings. Recharge with a KittiePIG and a burger, and I’ll see you in the pit!
KittiePIG Pit Burger
Ingredients
- 2 lbs Ground Beef 20% fat
- 1 cup KittiePIG Bacon-Onion Jam
- 4 buns Brioche Hamburger Buns
- 8 slices Cheese Slices I used American slices
- Brown Mustard
- Little Gem or Butter Lettuce
- Salt & Pepper
Instructions
- Form ground beef into 8 patties, 1/4lb each, salt and pepper both sides of patties.
- Bring flat grill or heavy frying pan to medium-high heat.
- Have a flat weighty ready to “smash” the burger patties. I used a saucepan.
- Add 1 tbsp vegetable oil or bacon fat, and place patties down to cook.
- Wait one minute and press the patties down to flatten, continue cooking for 2-3 minutes, then flip.
- After about one minute, smash the second side, and continue cooking until desired doneness.
- Add the cheese slice about one minute before removing the patties from the grill.
- Set patties aside, turn the heat down to medium, then toast the buns in the hamburger drippings.
- Slather mustard on both buns, place lettuce down first, then the double stack of hamburger patties.
- Top with slices of onion, and then a big scoop of Bacon-Onion Jam, and dig in!
Bacon-Onion Jam
Ingredients
- 1 lb Thick Cut Bacon sliced
- 1 large Yellow Onion
- 6 oz Blackberries
- 2 cloves Garlic minced
- 1/4 cup Balsamic Vinegar
- 1/4 cup Brown Sugar
- 1/2 cup Scotch
- 1 tsp Vanilla Extract
- 1 tsp Salt
Instructions
- Cut bacon across the width into ¼ inch wide pieces.
- Heat a heavy frying pan to medium-high.
- Add 1 tbsp vegetable oil and cook bacon till crispy.
- Strain out bacon, and reserve bacon fat.
- Place the pan back onto medium-high heat and add 1 tbsp of the bacon fat.
- Sautee the onions and blackberries until onions are translucent, about 7-8 minutes.
- Reduce heat to medium, add cooked bacon, minced garlic, balsamic vinegar, brown sugar,
- Scotch, vanilla and salt, and cook until the liquid is absorbed, and the sauce thickens, about 5 minutes.
- Scoop it onto your burgers! If you have any left, refrigerate in an airtight container.
