Portuguese chicken burgers

    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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