Spicy Chicken Burger with Cinnamon Apple “Bun” and an Arugula-Tomato Salad.
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This is a Z2 (ZReduction) recipe. These chicken burgers can be cooked and eaten immediately, or you can pack them in pieces, in containers to go to the office or a picnic. Assemble right before eating. You can eat it cold or warm the chicken. When the chicken is cooked you’ll hardly recognize it as a patty. It stays really moist too.
Servings: Serves 2
Ingredients:
- 8 oz of ground chicken formed into patties. I buy the chicken by the pound and form the patties as soon as I get home and put them in the freezer. Just take a pound and divide it into 4 sections, approx 4 oz each
- blackening seasoning and cayenne to taste
- 2 slices of Vidalia onion, quarter inch, raw
- 4 slices of granny smith apple. Remove core bits
- 2 slices of beefsteak tomato and a bit of arugula salad for each person
Instructions:
Lightly spray your grill pan with olive oil spray. Season your patties with blackening spice and I even add a bit of cayenne to zip it up even more.
Put the patties, blackening side down on the grill pan. Grill on high or medium-high for 2 minutes to sear that side. Turn to medium and grill until they are done. You want to check to make sure there’s no pink in the middle. This usually takes 5 – 7 minutes more. Because I thaw the patties right before I cook them, sometimes mine are a bit frozen in the middle so I am careful to make sure they get cooked all the way through.
Sprinkle one side of the apple slices with a teeny bit of cinnamon.
Use one slice for the bottom. It’s your “bun.” Put the cooked chicken patty on the apple slice. Then add the onion on top and even the tomato slice if you’d like. Then the “bun top”; which is another slice of apple. Arugula on the side, or if you are daring you can even put that in your sandwich. I like to sort of spread things out during this stage of the diet so it covers more of the plate.
It’s amazing how good this tastes with the cinnamon apple and the spicy chicken.
Enjoy!
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