Easy Burger Bowl (With Burger Sauce!)

These burger bowls are one of my go-tos when no one can agree on dinner. I just lay everything out and let everyone build their own, which solves a lot of dinner drama even with a picky eater at the table.

A burger bowl filled with ground beef, sliced potatoes, shredded lettuce, cheddar cheese, tomatoes, pickles, red onions, and a drizzle of creamy sauce.

Why We Love Easy Burger Bowls

Easy To Customize – With picky eaters in the house, customizing a meal without having to make multiple meals can be a life saver.
Light And Refreshing – Feeling like a burger but want to keep dinner light and fresh? Bowl style meals give you all the flavor of burgers but without all the fast food grease. Honeslty it kind of feels like I’m rebranding a salad for my family, but I’m ok with that.
Budget Friendly – The drive through has been less than appealing lately with prices rising everywhere. This gives you a budget friendly dinner that can feed the whoel family for less.

Ingredients For Burger Bowls

Assorted burger bowl ingredients on a white surface, including baby potatoes, ground beef, lettuce, cherry tomatoes, pickles, cheddar cheese, red onion, and various condiments.

baby potatoes
olive oil
salt
black pepper
mayonnaise
ketchup
yellow mustard
dill pickle relish – or finely chopped pickles
ground beef – I prefer 80/20
Worcestershire sauce
iceberg lettuce – can use other types of lettuce like spring mix or baby spinach
cherry tomatoes – romas also work great
dill pickles
red onion – can also use sweet onion
shredded cheddar cheese

How To Make Burger Bowls

Roasting The Potatoes

Preheat the oven to 425°F. Cut the potatoes in half and dry well with a paper towel. In a large bowl add potatoes, olive oil, salt, and pepper and toss well.
Spread the potatoes on a baking sheet and roast until golden brown and fork tender. Potatoes will take about 25-30 minutes, and flipping halfway through will help make sure all sides are crispy.

Small golden potatoes seasoned with black pepper and salt, spread out on a baking sheet to bake to be added to a burger bowl.

Halved, roasted baby potatoes with seasoning scattered on a baking sheet for adding to a burger bowl.

Making The Burger Sauce

In a small bowl, mix mayonnaise, ketchup, mustard, pickle relish until smooth. Set to the side or chill in the fridge until you are ready to use.

A white bowl containing mayonnaise, ketchup, mustard, and relish with a metal whisk on a white marble surface being mixed together to make burger sauce for a burger bowl.

A metal whisk rests in a white bowl filled with a creamy, orange-colored burger sauce for a burger bowl.

Cooking The Ground Beef

Place a large skillet over medium heat. Add oil and let it warm, then add the ground beef. Then cook the ground beef until no longer pink, about 7-10 minutes.
Add salt, pepper and Worcestershire sauce to the ground beef. Cook and stir for about 1 minute. Then remove from the heat and cover with a lid, setting the beef to the side.

Making The Bowls

Start with lettuce covering the bottom of each bowl. Then layer potatoes, beef, tomatoes, pickles, red onion and cheese. Drizzle with burger sauce, then enjoy!

A burger bowl containing ground beef, sliced pickles, cherry tomatoes, shredded cheddar cheese, lettuce, diced red onion, roasted potatoes, and drizzled with a creamy sauce.

Bruger Bowl Variation Ideas

You can make these burger bowls simple or more loaded style, depending on what your family loves.

Add Bacon – Try adding some crumbled bacon on top. You could cook raw bacon or use precooked bacon and just crisp it up in the pan a little.
Try Avocado – Large chunks of avocado go well with this burger bowl.
Mushrooms and Onions – If you love a mushroom style bowl, try adding some sauteed mushrooms and onions to the this burger bowl!
Add In BBQ Sauce – I love bbq sauce on a burger, so a good drizzle on my ground beef is always a part of my bowl.
Swap Beef For Ground Turkey – Easily can swap ground turkey into this recipe, though I would add a little garlic powder and onion powder as ground turkey can have less flavor then ground beef.
Try Fries Instead Of Potatoes – You can use frozen fries, waffle fries, sweet potato fries or even tater tots in place of making the homemade potatoes if you prefer.
Swap Onion Rings For Potatoes – Frozen onion rings or even the crispy onions meant for green bean casserole can both be great on this bowl.
Drizzle Queso – A little warm queso or warm cheese dip drizzled on top of this recipe is pretty darn tasty.

How Long Will Burger Bowls Last?

This recipe can last up to three to four days if stored in covered containers in the refrigerator.

I prefer to store the individual items in separate containers, reheat the meat and potatoes, then assemble fresh bowls from my leftovers. I find this gives my leftovers the most amount of freshness and still works really well for meal prep.

If you assemble all the ingredients into a bowl and try to save it, it really will only be tasty for about 24 hours, as the lettuce tends to wilt.

A burger bowl with ground beef, cherry tomatoes, pickles, shredded lettuce, shredded cheese, diced red onion, roasted potatoes, and dressing drizzled on top.