Chopped Cheese Recipe You’ll Love

Chopped cheese to me sounds like someone just took a butcher knife and went to town on a block of provolone or some slices of American. That’s not quite what it is but it’s actually kind of close.

This chopped cheese recipe does involve some chopping and it does involve cheese, so, I mean, the name doesn’t completely lie. It’s basically just another sandwich that’s loaded with popular seasonings, butter, ground beef and you can probably guess the rest.

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Let’s take a look at what you need to make this.

What It Is	Name	Where to Buy
Cookware	Medium-large skillet	Amazon
Cookware	Butter knife	Amazon
Cookware	Medium kitchen knife	Amazon
Cookware	Cutting board	Amazon
Cookware	Potato peeler	Amazon
Cookware	Small bowl	Amazon
Cookware	Kitchen scale	Amazon
Cookware	Measuring spoons – various sizes	Amazon
Cookware	Measuring cup (1 cup)	Amazon
Cookware	Spatula	Amazon
Cookware	Small plate (for weighing raw meat on scale)	Amazon
Ingredient	2/3-pound 85% lean ground beef	Store
Ingredient	4 slices of American cheese	Store
Ingredient	1/4 cup of mayonaise	Store
Ingredient	1 small onion, sliced very thin	Store
Ingredient	2 tablespoons butter	Store
Ingredient	1/2 teaspoon salt	Store
Ingredient	1/4 teaspoon pepper	Store
Ingredient	1/4 teaspoon garlic powder	Store
Ingredient	1 cup shredded iceberg lettuce	Store
Ingredient	1 medium tomato cut into thin slices	Store
Ingredient	2 hoagie buns	Store

Let’s do it, one chopped cheese recipe step-by-step for ya right here. I think it’s best practice to prep all your ingredients before turning on the skillet.

If you wait until the meat starts cooking, you’ll end up feeling pretty rushed trying to get everything chopped up and ready.

Anyways, start with a cutting board and your onion.

Grab a medium-sized kitchen knife, too, to cut off the bad parts.

Once the onion’s cleaned up, use a potato peeler (or if you have a razor blade use that) to make really thin slices.

If the onion’s huge, don’t worry about using all of it. This chopped cheese recipe just needs a handful.

Next, grab a tomato.

Slice that up. Normal sized slices are fine, these are just going on the sandwich later.

Grab a paper towel to dry off your tomato slices so the chopped cheese isn’t all wet and gross. There was a ton of water in my tomato. Maybe yours won’t be as moist.

Next, grab a little bowl for all your seasonings.

Grab your salt and pepper for this part of the chopped cheese recipe.

Measure out a 1/2 teaspoon of salt and dump that in the bowl.

Then, measure out 1/4 teaspoon of pepper and dump that in the bowl, too.

Once that’s in there, get the garlic powder and measure out 1/4 teaspoon of that.

Dump that in and shake them all around in the bowl.

Take care of the lettuce next. I guess this step could be optional because it’s pretty easy to grab a handful of lettuce when it’s time to put in in the bun.

Measure out a cup of that and put it on the cutting board.

Following that, grab your two plates and their hoagie buns.

Slice each bun.

Once those are taken care of, grab a stick of butter and a butter knife for this part of the chopped cheese recipe.

Using the measurement on the wrapper, cut off 1 tablespoon of butter and spread it around the skillet. The skillet should be at medium-high heat.

Once that’s done, lower the heat (not all the way – see the picture) and put the first bun face down into the skillet for 3 minutes to toast it.

Once that bun’s toasted, add some more butter to the pan and toast the second bun. Half a tablespoon should be enough.

Once those are toasted, get out your kitchen scale and the 85% lean ground beef to measure 2/3 pound of it.

That’s about how much you’ll have once it’s measured out:

Before putting it in the skillet, throw another tablespoon of butter in with the onion slices. Increase your burner to medium-high heat.

Let the onions cook for about 3 minutes, moving them around periodically.

When the time’s up, move the onions to the side of the skillet and put the ground beef chunks in there. Leave them as-is and don’t break them up yet.

Sear for 3 minutes and sprinkle the bowl of seasonings on the raw side while doing that.

Once the time’s up there, flip the pieces of meat around and cook the other side for 2 minutes for this part of the chopped cheese recipe.

Once that 2 minutes is up, the meat should be starting to get brown. Start chopping it up with your spatula and mixing the onion in with the meat for this part of the chopped cheese recipe.

It’ll need about 3 more minutes to become completely browned, so here’s another timer for that:

Once your meat’s browned, get the cheese. Set two slices of American cheese on top of the ground beef. At this point, you can either cut the burner completely or lower it to a simmer if the meat’s fully browned. The cheese will get melted pretty fast while you’re prepping the bun.

Go over to your buns and measure out 1/4 cup of mayo. Spread about half of that on each bun.

Once that’s on there, grab a few tomatoes and put them on the bun, too.

Meat time. By now, the cheese for this chopped cheese recipe should be pretty melty (as you an see). Scoop one of those piles of meat and cheese into the hoagie bun.

It’s almost done. Look at that beautiful cheesy goodness.

Lastly, load it up with some shredded iceberg lettuce.

That’s it! Your sandwich is ready to eat. Heads up, it’s pretty messy, so make sure you have a napkin handy.

Notecard Version of the Chopped Cheese Recipe

Calorie Calculation Chopped Cheese

Name	Calories
Bun	300
Butter est	100
Cheese	130
Mayo est	180
Meat est for 1/3 pound	320
Total	1030

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