This Garlic butter chicken burger is INSANE!
We know that garlic butter and chicken goes well together, but how can you take two already delicious things to the next level? Well what you do, is you slap them in a burger with cheese and other delicious stuff, that's what you do! So I have been thinking about this for a few days now. I just kind of ended up like a stuck vinyl record, constantly thinking about the same thing over and over and over again, until well...I just had to make it. So here it is, my garlic butter chicken cheeseburger. Go make it!
To make my garlic butter chicken burger you will need:
Makes 2 burgers
2 medium sized chicken breasts
2 Brioche buns
2 garlic cloves
About 60g of room temp butter
A small handful of parsley
Juice of about 1/4 of a lemon
Salt & pepper
Pie D'Angloys cheese (brie, camembert, reblochon also works well)
Little gem lettuce
Mayonnaise
Extra lemon juice for basting the chicken
Sliced tomatoes
Method:
Make the garlic butter
Add the softened butter to a bowl and mince in the garlic. Add the freshly chopped parsley, a little lemon juice and a pinch of salt and pepper. Mix it up nicely and that’s your garlic butter ready. Roll it up in some clingfilm and pop it in the fridge to firm up for half an hour or longer.
Prep the chicken
Take the chicken breasts and trim them of any cartilage, sinew and not very nice bits.
Next lay each breast in-between two sheets of cling film and bash them out flat until they are an equal thickness. You can use a meat mallet, rolling pin or use the bottom of a heavy saucepan. Once they are the thickness of about a £1 coin, place them to one side for later.
Do your prep
Get your buns toasted, slice the tomatoes, lettuce and the cheese. If you want any other toppings make sure to get those ready too.
Make the chicken burger
Start by seasoning your chicken breasts on both sides with salt and pepper then get them into a medium hot pan with a little oil.
Fry the chicken breasts for around two minutes each side. They shouldn’t take too long to cook since they have been beaten out flat.
Once almost cooked through, turn the heat down to it’s lowest setting and add a few slices of your garlic butter over the top. It should gently melt over the chicken and not vigorously fry in the pan.
Gently baste the chicken with the butter and squeeze over some lemon juice.
Then lastly add a few slices of the Pie D’Angloys cheese on top of each chicken breast, and watch it slowly melt in the residual heat.
Assemble your burger
Add some mayonnaise to the base of your toasted bun, then some lettuce before adding your chicken fillet.
Top with a little more garlic butter, some slices of fresh in season tomato, whack the lid on and enjoy!
Serve with fries or enjoy on it’s own!