Pesto Chicken Burgers I Made It

Pesto Chicken Burgers

mommyluvs2cook 9 years ago
By: Christinem

Another chicken burger winner! I am really starting to love ground chicken, and am even thinking about grinding my own...I have a grinder why not use it?! The only change I made was using almond meal in place of breadcrumbs. I was worried about there not being an egg but they held together beautifully :) I sauteed up some onions, bell peppers and mushrooms to go on top along with tomatoes and lettuce. No bun! This was delicious

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chuckieb 9 years ago said:

Very nice Michelle! Gorgeous picture! I'm gonna give this one a try myself based on your recommendation. It sounds awesome.

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frankieanne 9 years ago said:

That looks really good, Michelle, even without a bun! I'll bet this would work with ground turkey as well. Very pretty picture and nice looking tomato for this time of year!

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pointsevenout 9 years ago said:

I have the ingredients. I'll give it a go with homemade ground chicken and pesto.

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mommyluvs2cook 9 years ago said:

Wow, this will be a very popular recipe once we are through with it :) Ground turkey would work great FA! I was kinda surprised at the tomatoes I've been finding this time of year, but I shop at HEB that only uses Texas grown, when in season veggies, and it's been unusually hot here for December, so that means nice tomatoes! Point's when you grind chicken do you just throw it in and grind it up, or do you need to add some sort of fat?

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pointsevenout 9 years ago said:

Don't know. Never ground chicken before. Some 'net sites suggest using thighs. I might do a combo of breast and thighs. Regardless, I'll cut the meat up in about 1/2" pieces and freeze the for 20 minutes then grind in a food processor to a consistency I like. Throw the rest of the ingredients in and pulse to mix.

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NPMarie 9 years ago said:

Looks delish Michelle! I think using some thigh meat along with breast meat would be a good way to make sure you get some fat in your ground chicken..I personally like ground chicken/turkey breast, but it does tend to be dry. Adding the thigh meat would help for sure:) Love your pic, beautiful!

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mommyluvs2cook 9 years ago said:

Thanks Points and Marie :) That's my next project, grinding up some chicken! I like the idea of using both thigh and breast, going to do that!

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pointsevenout 9 years ago said:

Got the pesto made. Waiting on the chicken. Should take a couple/three days in the fridge to defrost.

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pointsevenout 9 years ago said:

Tasty and moist.
I'm ashamed I forgot to put the pesto in the mix. Especially after I did a homemade pesto. Very tasty regardless.
Made my own ground chicken too. Used 2 chicken breasts. So the burgers were about a third pound each.
Sauteed up some onion and 'shrooms. Lettuce on the bottom, tomatoes on the top.
Buttered the buns with salad dressing.

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MissouriFarmWife 9 years ago said:

This looks amazing! I don't have the pesto so will have to wait until the next grocery shopping to make it.

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mommyluvs2cook 9 years ago said:

Oh Man, I can't believe you forgot the pesto lol! You can always make it again using your homemade pesto, it really does add a lot of goodness to the burgers. Glad they still turned out good though, yummy looking photo :)

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frankieanne 9 years ago said:

Oh, you forgot the pesto!! :-)
That looks delicious, pso. "Buttered the buns with salad dressing." :-D

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