Wednesday, August 7, 2013

Juicy Lean Grilled Chicken-Zucchini Burgers... 2 Ways!!

In our quest for a healthy tasty burger, I decided to try chicken, but it has to be juicy and delicious... and it was!! This is what helped our chicken burgers stay juicy and delicious, grated zucchini, about a meduim or 1 whole cup! But we didn't stop there, we had to give these chicken burgers some flavor! So, we added 1 small onion chopped, 3 cloves of garlic (fine chopped or minced), 1 teaspoon crushed red pepper flakes, 1 and 1/2 teaspoon italian seasoning, 1 teaspoon salt and 1/2 teaspoon black pepper. Now add 2 pounds of ground chicken to that bowl full of flavor and mix gently together with your hands... The meat will be fairly wet, but that's ok... it will stay juicy as it cooks on the grill! Now, the first time we had these chicken burgers we made these cute little sliders! 2 pounds of chicken made 10 sliders. Grill these burgers for about 5 minutes on each side. Since these are chicken burgers, you don't want medium rare, you need to cook the chicken all the way through. Since these burgers have italian flavors, it only made sense to use this... Delicious, melty, slightly nutty, totally yummy fontina cheese, and it was perfect! Make sure to give the cheese at least 1-2 minutes to melt on your burgers. Now... the first way to enjoy these lean, delicious juicy chicken burgers... Adorable tasty little chicken sliders! What's not to love? We loved these burgers so much we had them again a little while later... Only this time, we made these enormous burgers!! Everything else was the same, accept the size, these were huge! Again, make sure to cook these for about 7 minutes on each side to cook through (not medium rare). Now, we had to have something to go with these burgers so we made our favorite wedges... and they were perfect! Now, you know the meat mantra... let those burgers rest for a few minutes so they stay juicy and delicious! Now, here's our lean mean juicy chicken burgers the second way... Enormous tender, juicy, healthy chicken burgers and potato wedges! A lean delicious alternative burger to try instead of beef. Yum!

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