Bbq Chicken Burgers And Cheesy French Fries

Total Time: 45 mins Preparation Time: 20 mins Cook Time: 25 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 4
• 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 tomato
• sliced lettuce

Recipe

• 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.