BBQ Chicken Burgers and Cheesy French Fries

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

• Ready In: 45 mins
• Serves: 4

Ingredients

• 1⁄3 cup barbecue sauce
• 1⁄3 cup  grape jelly or 1⁄3 cup  seedless raspberry jam
• 3  cups  frozen waffle cut French-fried potatoes or 3  cups  frozen thick cut French-fried potatoes
• 4  slices  ready-to-serve  cooked bacon, chopped
• 2  tablespoons  dry breadcrumbs, finely chopped
• 2  tablespoons  honey-roasted walnuts or 2  tablespoons  almonds, finely chopped
• 1  tablespoon barbecue sauce
• 1⁄2 teaspoon poultry seasoning
• 8  ounces  uncooked ground chicken or 8  ounces  uncooked ground turkey
• 1⁄2 cup  shredded  Italian cheese blend or 1⁄2 cup  shredded monterey jack pepper cheese or 1⁄2 cup  shredded gorgonzola
•  snipped fresh chives
• 8  dinner rolls or 8  cocktail-sized  hamburger buns, split
•  sliced tomatoes
•  sliced lettuce

Directions

1. 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.
2. 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.
3. 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.
4. 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.
5. 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.
6. 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.
7. 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.
8. NOTE: Burger and Fries can be pan fried.