Chick-Chick Burgers

Chick-Chick Burgers

Chick-Chick.  That's chicken and chickpeas.  (Yeah, not chk-chk boom! for you Australians who remember.)   It was 4:45... we normally eat at 5:30... and I hadn't even decided what to make!!!  I had some chicken thigh mince in the freezer and then I just went from there.  This made about 27 or so patties and I expected to have some for school lunches tomorrow.  I was wrong!  They all went!!

The method with this basically went, find something, chuck it in, pulse it...

Ingredients:

• 1-2 cloves garlic
• handful of parsley leaves
• 2 spring onions
• 1 stick celery, roughly chopped
• 1 egg
• 1 can chickpeas, drained and rinsed
• about 1 cup breadcrumbs (homemade, of course!!)
• 1 tsp sea salt
• 1/2 tsp citric acid
• 500g chicken thigh mince

Method:

• Add each ingredient in turn and pulse on about Speed 5-7 after each, to chop, mince and combine.  Only a few seconds each time.
• Form mixture into thin patties, about palm-size and shallow fry
• I served with Miracle Mash and green beans and goes really well with Pear Ketchup

Verdict: 
Ms C said "You're the best meat-maker!!"  Ummm... thanks.

Tweeks:
Actually, I was surprised they loved them so much.  I thought they might be a little dry and said they needed the sauce.  But Ms D doesn't eat the ketchup and ate more burgers than anyone!
Of course,  you can serve these like the beef burgers: in a bread-roll, with lettuce,  a little grated carrot, cucumber & pear ketchup.