Portuguese chicken burgers

Serves:

Ingredients

• 600g chicken thigh fillets
• 5 burger buns or 1 loaf of Turkish bread, sliced and toasted
• 3 cups lettuce, shredded
• 2 large tomatoes, sliced

Chicken marinade

• 1/4 finely diced onion
• 1 garlic clove
• 1 and a half  tsp paprika
• 1 tsp dried or fresh oregano
• 3 cardamom pods
• 1/4 tsp piri piri spice mix
• 1 tbsp olive oil
• 1 tbsp lemon juice

Mayonnaise

• 1/3 cup mayonnaise
• 2 tbsp sweet chilli sauce

Method

Mix all marinade ingredient together with a mortar and pestle until they becomes a paste (about 3 minutes).

Pound the chicken fillets as flat as you can with a mallet or similar.

Brush on marinade and refrigerate for 30 mins – 1 hour.

Fry chicken in frying pan or on griddle/BBQ until cooked but not too brown.

Combine mayonnaise ingredients in a small bowl.

Toast and butter the buns or turkish bread, add chicken, mayonnaise, tomato and lettuce and serve.

Notes

• These are sooooo good. Really!
• These Portuguese chicken burgers might be a bit spicy for little kids but you could cut down on the spices to make them more acceptable.
• These burgers are not only a wonderful, easy, tasty meal but the chicken fillets would even be fantastic chopped up in a salad, or just as is on your BBQ.
• You can use paprika in place of piri piri spice mix if you can’t find piri piri.
• This recipe was created by Melissa Klemke for Kidspot, New Zealand’s best recipe finder.

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