BBQ Chicken Burgers and Cheesy French Fries

Name: BBQ Chicken Burgers and Cheesy French Fries
Prep time: 20 min
Cook time: 25 min
Total time: 45 min
Yield: 4 serving(s)
Ingredients: 78.78 ml barbecue sauce; 78.78 ml grape jelly or 78.78 ml seedless raspberry jam; 709.77 ml frozen waffle cut French-fried potatoes or 709.77 ml frozen thick cut French-fried potatoes; 4 slice ready-to-serve cooked bacon, chopped; 29.58 ml dry breadcrumbs, finely chopped; 29.58 ml honey-roasted walnuts or 29.58 ml almonds, finely chopped; 14.79 ml barbecue sauce; 2.46 ml poultry seasoning; 226.79 g uncooked ground chicken or 226.79 g uncooked ground turkey; 118.29 ml shredded monterey jack pepper cheese or 118.29 ml shredded gorgonzola; snipped fresh chives; 8 dinner rolls or 8 cocktail-sized hamburger buns, split; sliced tomatoes; sliced lettuce

Submitted by Member 610488

"A lunch combo sure to please. Recipe was found in an old Sunset magazine and modified for chicken instead of beef."

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Ready In:: 45mins
Ingredients:: 14
Serves:: 4

ingredients

78.78 ml barbecue sauce
78.78 ml grape jelly or 78.78 ml seedless raspberry jam
709.77 ml frozen waffle cut French-fried potatoes or 709.77 ml frozen thick cut French-fried potatoes
4 slice ready-to-serve cooked bacon, chopped
29.58 ml dry breadcrumbs, finely chopped
29.58 ml honey-roasted walnuts or 29.58 ml almonds, finely chopped
14.79 ml barbecue sauce
2.46 ml poultry seasoning
226.79 g uncooked ground chicken or 226.79 g uncooked ground turkey
118.29 118.29 ml shredded monterey jack pepper cheese or 118.29 ml shredded gorgonzola
snipped fresh chives
8 dinner rolls or 8 cocktail-sized hamburger buns, split
sliced tomatoes
sliced lettuce

directions

Preheat oven to 425°F Combine the 1/3 cup barbecue sauce and the jelly or jam. Mix with a wire whisk until smooth. Set aside.
Arrange waffle-cut potatoes or thick-cut french fried potatoes in a single layer on an ungreased baking sheet. Sprinkle with chopped bacon. Bake for 8 minutes.
Meanwhile, in a bowl combine bread crumbs, nuts, the 1 tablespoon barbecue sauce, poultry seasoning, 1/4 teaspoon salt, and 1/8 teaspoon ground black pepper. Add ground chicken; mix well.
Shape into 8 balls; place 2 inches apart on greased shallow baking pan. Moisten the bottom of a glass and press each ball to about 1/4 inch thickness.
Place pan of burgers in oven. Bake fries and burgers for 5 minutes. Stir fries; turn burgers. Continue baking burgers and potatoes for 5 more minutes.
Sprinkle cheese over fries. Brush barbecue sauce mixture on burgers. Bake burgers and potatoes 2 minutes more or until burgers are no longer pink in center and cheese is melted on fries.
To serve, sprinkle fries with snipped chives. Place mini burgers in cocktail buns with additional barbecue-jelly mixture spooned over. Top with tomato slices and/or lettuce.
NOTE: Burger and Fries can be pan fried.