Portobello Mushroom Stuffed Burgers Wrapped in Bacon

Shape the Burgers

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Prepare a rimmed baking sheet with tin foil and a rack lightly coated in cooking spray.
2. Clean mushrooms and scrape out the insides to create a bowl.
3. Next, in a medium sized bowl, combine ground meat, egg (if desired), and Montreal steak seasoning. Divide mixture into 4 equal parts; as even as possible.
4. Press ground mixture into mushroom caps.

Make the Bacon Weave

1. At your workstation, lay 6 slices of bacon, just touching, side by side, with fatty edges touching the meatier edges. Do your best to not leave spaces as the bacon shrinks your weave will not bake properly or as a square. 
2. Fold up every other slice of bacon, a couple of inches up the slice. You should now have 3 slices up and 3 slices down. 
3. Place a strip of bacon across the three slices down to create a row, leaning right up to the top of the three flipped over bacon slices or the top edge.  
4. Then unfold the three slices of bacon so they now lie on top of your horizontal slice and lift the other 3 slices of bacon upwards.
5. Lay another slice of bacon across the three slices that are folded downwards or are straight and no longer folded over. 
6. Unfold upwards bacon slices again and lift the opposite or other three slices and add another horizontal slice and again. Unfold the slices of bacon on top of the horizontal slice. You get the idea! 
7. Keep going until there are the same number of bacon strips down as there are across. 

Wrap the Burgers

1. Place weaved bacon on cutting board or at your workstation. Place meat filled mushroom cap in the middle of the weaved bacon square.
2. Grab bacon ends and pull across mushroom cap until cap is totally covered in bacon. Use toothpicks if needed to secure the bacon strips. 
3. Place bacon covered mushrooms, meat side up between 45 and 60 minutes or until bacon is cooked all around.
4. Toast buns with cheese. Serve and enjoy!

Make Without Bacon

1. Follow instructions above for shaping the burgers except preheat oven to 425 degrees.
2. Place ground meat stuffed mushroom cap UPSIDE DOWN OR MEAT SIDE DOWN on prepared rack. Bake for 30 minutes. Remove from oven and gently flip them over. Bake for 10 more minutes.
3. Serve and enjoy!