Ina Garten’s Beef slider recipe with Gruyere Cheese. Who can argue with a party slider recipe dressed with arugula tomato & onion. Easy dependable and crowd pleasing!
Nothing exotic about this recipe. Just well flavored 80/20 blend ground beef, some melted gruyere and simply topped with tomato and onion.
Ketchup is the condiment suggested for Ina’s sliders. These Ina Garten sliders with Gruyere is just another good solid recipe from one of my favorite celebrity chefs.
I could consume twice my body weight with these sliders. Ground beef flavored with thyme, Dijon mustard makes for a great little burger. Thanks to Ina Garten and The Food Network for this one.
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Now for Ina’s fabulous slider recipe:
Ina Garten Sliders with Gruyere, Arugula, Tomato and Onion
Ingredients
- 2 pounds premium ground beef 80 percent lean and 20 percent fat
- 1 tablespoon Dijon mustard
- 3 tablespoons olive oil plus extra for brushing the grill
- 1 teaspoon thyme leaves chopped
- 3 teaspoons garlic fine chopped
- 1 teaspoon kosher salt
- 1 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper
- 6 ounces Gruyere grated
- 12 Brioche buns slider buns
- 4 ounces baby arugula
- 3 medium tomatoes sliced ⅛-inch-thick rounds
- 2 small red onions sliced ⅛-inch-thick rounds
- Ketchup for serving
Instructions
- Place the ground beef in a large bowl and add the mustard, olive oil, thyme, garlic, salt, and pepper. Mix gently with a fork to combine, taking care not to compress the ingredients. Shape the meat into 12 (2-inch) patties of equal size and thickness.
- When the grill is medium-hot, brush the grill grate with oil to keep the sliders from sticking. Place the sliders on the grill and cook for 4 minutes. Turn the sliders over with a spatula and cook for another 4 to 6 minutes, until medium-rare, or cook longer if you prefer the sliders more well done. For the last 2 minutes of cooking time, place ½-ounce Gruyere on the top of each burger and close the grill lid. Remove the sliders to a platter and cover with foil.
- Slice the buns in half crosswise and toast the halves cut side down on the grill.
- Divide the baby arugula among the 12 bottom buns, top each with a slider, and finish with a slice of tomato and red onion. Cover with the top of the bun and serve hot with ketchup.
Nutrition
Ina Garten Sliders with Gruyere, Arugula, Tomato and Onion…It’s What’s for Dinner.
Why Trust These Recipes? Lea Ann Brown has lived, worked and played in Colorado for 45 years. She has immersed herself in the Colorado Culinary space, is a Culinary School Graduate and publishes her Colorado food Blog, Cooking On The Ranch.
Would love to win Ina’s cookbook, her great recipes.
I’d love to have Ina’s cookbook. And my favorite recipe of hers is the beef tenderloin with Gorgonzola sauce.
Watch the hummingbirds year round here in the Pacific NW at the feeder on my deck.
Would love to win the new Ina cookbook and one of my favorites is the biscotti recipe,
a little different from others I have made.
Oh YUMMMM! Gruyere is my favorite go to cheese for… well, anything cheesy
I’d love to win. Thank you for the contest. 😀
These sliders look wonderful! I’m going to give them a try. I would LOVE to win the new cookbook, and one of my favorite recipes from Ina Garten is Crispy Mustard Chicken and Frisee.
Hi Lea Ann! I would love to win a copy of Ina’s new cookbook. I was all set to make a different recipe for sliders (ham and cheese) for our Super Bowl watching, but I changed plans and now I’m going to make this one. Sounds delicious! I love a lot of Ina’s recipes. I have every confidence that they will come out perfectly and I won’t have wasted money on food that no one will eat! One of my favorite Ina recipes is her simple roast chicken. Sometimes you just want a simple, easy and soul-satisfying meal and that is it.
Ina’s roasted vegetables have changed my life. I use her methods on vegetables I never liked before!
The Garten Sliders sound amazing.
Would love to win that cookbook!
Crap, thanks for the reminder! I forgot to get our feeder out and it’s hummingbird time!
Liked those cute little burgers and fell in love with them when I saw they had thyme in them. Fabulous herb that seems to love cooler climates! The hummers are so cute! We have to put feeders up fairly early because we are at the end of the journey for some of the Rufous and Caliope and the flowers are not so plentiful when they get here. They seriously come to the windows and hover until Dana gets the feeders hung. 🙂
I’ve got two thyme plants that are doing very nicely. One is a lemon thyme that I plant every year. Really nice flavor for my Summer soup recipe. I love that those birds hover until Dana fills the feeders. That’s fabulous.
How do you make a slider irresistible? Put Gruyere on it… 🙂 YUM!!!
I agree Jenn!
Wow, this looks like a great meal for our family. Thanks for stopping by and following – here to do the same! Deb
Thank Deb. Everyone loves a slider.
We brought our hummingbird feeders with us on the move from SoCal to Montana and we only saw ONE hummer in two summers. Needless to say, the feeder went into the garage sale box! I love Ina, too… these sound really good.
Some years the wild flowers will keep them away from feeders. I’ve seen them at my flowers and not touch the feeders at all.
What beautiful little hummers. I guess we need to get with it and get our feeders filled and hung. The sliders look wonderful. I adore Ina’s recipes. I haven’t made a bad one yet.
Yes, get those feeders out Karen. We only put them up this time of year. Plus they love some of the flowers I’ve planted. I agree with those Ina recipes, that’s why I had to try these sliders.
I’ve never seen the Calliope hummer before. How pretty is he! We had a lot of hummingbirds visit us in the northern Bahamas when we lived there. From that I knew they flew an incredible long way, but it’s just hard to imagine how such little birds are so brave and strong to take such a long trip.
Love your slider, especially the gruyere. Sounds like a French burger…
Sam
I would have no idea what hummingbirds are in the bahamas. And probably some that don’t migrate this direction.
I love, love the gruyere! Great looking burger, wish those two were mine!
Thanks Tanya. Ina recipes are just the best.
I absolutely love arugula! It has the best flavor and adds a nice peppery taste to foods. Your recipe and photos look great 🙂
Thanks so much Ann. And thanks for stopping by and the comment.
Forgot to say, I love your beautiful, winged visitors! We normally see hummingbirds in the garden here but I haven’t seen any yet this year 🙁
Maybe they’re waiting on certain flowers to bloom. Surely you’ll see them before the season is out.
These could be on the grill here Sunday! The flavors in the meat sound wonderful, Leann!
Thank you Susan. Ina recipes are so reliable.
The burgers look awesome LA and I like the flavors you added to the meat – hard to beat an Ina recipe. Bev has several hummingbird feeders hanging around, but ours are the Ruby Throated ones – good to see another variety. I saw a critter the other day that looked like a bumblebee at first glance but it had a beak like a hummer – turned out to be a hummingbird moth.
Thank you Larry! And I’m very proud of you for knowing what type of hummingbird you have! 🙂 I’ll make a full-fledged bird watcher out of you yet.