Chicken Breast Burgers with Mushrooms, Cheese and Bacon



Chicken Breast Burgers with Mushrooms, Cheese and Bacon

This is so easy that's it's not so much a recipe but just an idea as to what to put together to create something a bit different for dinner. It's a big hit in my house with the hubby, and very simple.

 

Time Taken?: About 30 mins to get all the elements together.

 

3 year old friendly?: He's not into burgers, but I used some extra chicken to make him some homemade chicken nuggets which are easy to cook while cooking the chicken for these burgers as long as you have a little extra prep time for them (recipe for that to come!)

 

The following makes 4 burgers (we only made two and used the left over chicken patties the next night to make BBQ chicken pita pizzas!)

 

INGREDIENTS
500g chicken breast

1 cup mushrooms, sliced

1 tablespoon butter (or nuttelex)

4 pieces of short cut bacon

4 hamburger buns

4 slices low fat cheese

Some iceberg lettuce to serve on burgers

Some BBQ sauce, to serve (if wanted)

Olive oil or Canola Oil spray

 

METHOD

Pre-heat the grill on your oven to high heat.

Cut the chicken into 4 palm sized patties, about half the thickness of a regular breast piece (if it doesn't make 4 patties you can use smaller pieces and put them together in one burger, which is what I did with the tenderloins. The melted cheese sticks them together to make them into 1 patty). Spray them on both sides and cook them on a pre-heated grill plate or fry pan until cooked through.

In a separate fry pan, heat the butter and cook the mushrooms until tender.

Cook the bacon (I used the mushroom pan when was finished with it) until cooked to taste.

On an oven tray place the cooked chicken patties, top each with mushrooms and a slice of cheese and put under grill until cheese has melted.

Serve the chicken and bacon on toasted hamburger buns with lettuce and BBQ sauce.