Monday, August 6, 2018

Chicken Burger

Hi guys,
How are you doing? How many of you have favorite burger joint? As a foodie, I love different cuisine. Thus burger too finds a placed in my heart. Sometimes I crave burger and French fries. I know these junk foods are not healthy for our body. Hence I came up with a burger recipe, which has fresh nutritious, ingredients and it also fills the soul. You can easily consider this dish as a burger night dinner with the family. I also have swapped French fries with the oven baked sweet potato strips which really complement the burger. The combo dish won’t make you guilty of eating junk food as well as it will satisfy your cravings. Now lets crank up the heat.

Chicken Burger with sweet potato fries
Chicken Burger with sweet potato fries


 Recipe will yield 6 servings

Ingredients for chicken burger paties

  1. 1.5 pound ground chicken
  2. 1 medium green bell paper chopped into small pieces
  3. 1 small onion chopped into small pieces
  4. 1/2 cup shredded mozzarella cheese
  5. 1 tsp lemon juice
  6. 1 tsp freshly crushed black pepper
  7. 1 tsp garam masala powder
  8. 6 slices of pepper jack cheese
  9. 2 tbsp oil for burger + 1 tsp oil to grease the grill pan
  10. Salt according to taste
  11. Aluminum foil


Methods

1. In a mixing bowl dump all the ingredients except oil and cheese slices. Mix it well.
2. Add 2 tbsp oil into the mixture and mix in one more time. Now from the mixture, try to make three equal portion by eye balling. Now divide each of the three portion into half. You will get six almost equal portions. Now put some oil in your hand and try to make a disc out of each portion. Repeat for all the portions and you will get six burger patties.
3. Heat a grill pan and grease it with remaining oil. When the grill pan is hot, place burgers. Cook it for 5 minutes on one side. Flip it and cook the other side for another 5 minutes. The secret of juicy burger is never ever press the burger.
4. When the burger is cooked on other side add slices of cheese on the burger. Cover the pan with the lid and cook for 1-2 minutes till the cheese melts. When the cheese is molten, take those out of the pan and put them on a plate. Cover them on the plate with a aluminum foil.
Chicken burger patties hitting the hot grill

Cooked Chicken Burger

Molten cheese on the burger


Now comes the assembly of the masterpiece with the choice of buns and toppings.

Ingredients for the assembled burger

  1. Brioche buns
  2. 2 tsp of butter
  3. Avocado cut into slices
  4. 1 tsp lemon juice
  5. Red lettuce leaves
  6. 3 tbsp of mayonnaise
  7. 2 tsp of Black pepper

Brioche Buns, Avacado, Tomato, Pepper Jack Cheese Slices and Lettuce


Methods

1. Prepare the bun by slathering butter on the inner sides of the bun. Toast the buns on both sides for a minute and by flipping once in between.
2. Take out the buns from the grill. Keep all the buns open faced. Now slathered mayonnaise on the inner sided faces. You will have 6 bottom buns and 6 top buns.
3. Add lemon juice to the avocado slices. Mix it well carefully so that slices don’t break.
4. Arrange the avocado slices on the mayo bed of the bottom buns as a layer.
5. Place the tomato slices on the avocado base. Sprinkle some salt and pepper on the tomatoes.
6. Now come the show stopper burger patties. Place them on the layer of tomato slices
7. Place the lettuce leaves by folding the leaves on top of the burger patties.
8. Now finally cover the patties with the top bun lids.
Avocado Slices added

Tomatoes added

Lettuce added

Chicken Burger


Baked sweet potato fries

Ingredients

  1. 2 sweet potatoes
  2. 1/2 tsp sea salt
  3. 1 tbsp oil


Methods

1. Preheat the oven to 400 F
2. Wash the sweet potatoes, peel them, then cut them into strips.
3. Add the oil to sweet potatoes strips. Mix it well so that they are coated in oil.
4. In a baking tray arrange the strips in one layer as evenly as possible.
5. Bake it for 18 minutes. Take out the baking tray and flip them with a spatula.
6. Again bake them for another 16 minutes. Now take the baking tray out of oven. Sprinkle some sea salt over the potatoes and give a good stir.
7. Let them cool for a minute or two and serve them hot with the burgers and ketchup.
Sweet Potato in the oven

Serve the chicken burger and the fries with ketch up or honey mustard sauce. Make it as a weekend dinner. Let me warn you, it's a messy food. So hold your sleeves up, grab the burger tight and take a big bite. It will definitely bring a happy smile in your face when you can enjoy the juice burger not at any burger joint but at your own nest. This recipe can also be considered as go to lunch menu for the office and it is very filling and healthy too. Let me know in the comment section how do you like it and how much mess you created.

Thanks,
Moumita











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