Chicken Apple Bacon Burgers

Submitted by dicentra

"Cooking Light. June 2003. Skip a step and used ground turkey!"

 

• Ready In: 30mins
• Ingredients: 9
• Serves: 4

ingredients

• 2 slice bacon
• 59.14 ml chopped red onion
• 453.59 g chicken breast, coarsely chopped (boneless, skinless)
• 9.85 ml chopped fresh sage
• 2.46 ml salt
• 2.46 ml fresh ground black pepper
• cooking spray
• 1 granny smith apple, peeled, cored, and cut crosswise into 8 (1/4-inch-thick)
• 4 (226.79 g) kaiser rolls

directions

1. Prepare grill.
2. Cook bacon in a large nonstick skillet over medium-high heat until crisp. Remove bacon from pan, and crumble.
3. Add onion to drippings in pan, and saute 2 minutes or until lightly browned. Cool slightly.
4. Place chicken in a food processor; process until coarsely ground. Combine chicken, bacon, onion, sage, salt, and pepper.
5. Divide chicken mixture into 4 equal portions, shaping each into a 1/2-inch-thick patty.
6. Place patties on a grill rack coated with cooking spray; grill 5 minutes on each side or until done. Place apple slices on grill rack coated with cooking spray; grill 1 minute on each side.
7. Place rolls, cut sides down, on grill rack; grill 1 minute or until toasted. Place patties on bottom halves of rolls; top each serving with 2 apple slices and top half of roll.

Reviews

[ES4VOLS1]

This was tasty, but I didn't think the apple added much. I did add a little BBQ sauce for a little flavor which was great. This was a quick meal that I would make again but next time I'll skip the apple, it wasn't necessary!