Beef and Fresh Vegetable Burgers

I needed some good old fashioned comfort food today. However, I do love to throw lots of veggies into food, and that makes for very juicy burgers!

Ingredients:

2 teaspoons olive oil

1 cup Swiss chard, leaves and stems, chopped

1 cup chopped mushrooms (I used button and shitake because they were both on sale)

½ cup yellow onion

½ cup yellow squash

1 cup bell peppers (green and yellow and orange)

1 pound lean ground beef

Salt and pepper to taste

5 slices cheddar cheese

5 Tablespoons tomato relish

Directions: Heat the olive oil in a large skillet. Add all the vegetables and sauté over medium heat for 12 minutes or until the liquid from the veggies is absorbed back in and the onions start to brown. Remove the veggies to a medium mixing bowl and let cool for 10 minutes. Add in the ground beef, salt and pepper to taste and form into 5 patties. Really, using your hands is the best thing to mix the beef and veggies together. Cook (2-3 burgers at a time so as not to crowd the pan) in the same skillet used for the veggies for 4-6 minutes per side on medium heat.  Top with one slice of cheese per burger and one Tablespoon of relish.