Chicken Pesto Burgers

Name: Chicken Pesto Burgers
Prep time: 5 min
Cook time: 10 min
Total time: 15 min
Ingredients: 150 g Chicken breast ((cut in to chunks)); 2 Shallots; 4 tbsp Pesto; 4 tbsp Breadcrumbs; 2 Burger buns; 1 handful Rocket (arugula); 2 tbsp Low fat yogurt; 30 g Mature cheddar (sliced)

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* This is a sponsored post for Red Tractor *
Take a classic chicken burger up a notch by mixing some pesto in to it and drizzling a creamy pesto sauce on top. If you love burgers, but are stuck in a bit or a rut or you want to make more burgers at home, then give these Chicken Pesto Burgers a try! They are made with Red Tractor Logo chicken too, so you can be sure that it has been responsibly produced.

A chicken burger in a bun on a wooden board, beer and another burger in the background

Adding pesto to your chicken burgers not only adds lots of extra flavour, but it keeps them nice and moist too. Boost the pesto flavour by adding our creamy pesto burger sauce and you are in pesto heaven!

Put the burger in between a soft bun with some melted cheese and some peppery rocket lettuce and you have a burger that will blow all others out of the water.

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Why should you try it?
What you will need
Step by step
Red Tractor assured food standards
Pesto sauce
FAQs
Extra tips
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Why should you try it?

Ready in 15 minutes
A new way to enjoy a burger
Easy to adapt with different flavours
Kids will love them

What you will need

1 chicken breast (with Red Tractor logo), cut in to 2 inch chunks
2 shallots
4 tablespoon pesto (homemade preferably)
4 tablespoon breadcrumbs
2 burger buns
A handful of rocket (arugula)
2 tablespoon low fat yogurt
30g mature cheddar, sliced

Two burger buns, a chicken breast, shallots, pesto, yoghurt, cheese and lettuce on a wooden surface

Step by step

One: Put the chicken, shallots and half the pesto in to a food processor and blend until minced.

A food processor containing minced chicken

Two:Combine the mince with the breadcrumbs and form the mixture in to two burgers.

Two raw chicken burger patties on a plate

Three: Make the pesto burger sauce by mixing together the rest of the pesto with the yogurt.

a green and yellow coloured sauce in a small blue bowl

Four: Add a little oil to a frying pan and cook the burgers for 10 minutes or until they reach 75°C, flipping every couple of minutes. Melt the cheese for a couple of minutes before finished.

Two chicken burger patties in a frying pan, one has been flipped to show the cooked side

Five: Stack your burger by adding some sauce to the bottom and top bun, then putting some rocket on the bottom, topping with the cooked burger and putting the bun top on.

Chicken Pesto Burgers sat on a wooden serving board with potato wedges

Red Tractor assured food standards

When it comes to the ingredients we use in our cooking, we make sure that they are the best quality possible - that's something really important to us, especially when it comes to things like food safety, environmental protection and animal welfare.

Which is why we look out for the Red Tractor Logo on products when we go shopping, as that means the products have been responsibly produced to some of the most comprehensive and respected standards in the world.

What Does The Red Tractor Logo Mean?

There is so much choice out there when it comes to food shopping. But, the Red Tractor label provides reassurance that those products are excellent quality and safe, and still a reachable price for many.

Red Tractor insist on rigorous production standards from farm to package. They don't allow growth hormones or antibiotic residues in the meat, and that is something that is really important to us.

When you see the Red Tractor logo on your food, it also means that the farmers care about the animals and they have suitable space and the right food and water to ensure they are healthy.

Fertilisers and Pesticides are only used when necessary to keep crops healthy and always in a manner that reduced the risk of pollution and impact on wildlife.

Everything is checked at every stage and the Red Tractor logo ensures that your food has been born, grown, prepared and packed in the UK. Eating locally is something we are trying to do more of and buying food with the Red Tractor logo enables us to know it is from the UK.

You will find the logo on standard products through to free range and organic products, so it covers all budgets and it's not just meat either. You can find the logo on milk, grains, cheese, fruit and veg.

The yogurt, shallots and cheese use in this recipe also had the Red Tractor logo on it.

Pesto sauce

A burger seems a little bit naked without an epic sauce to go with it and this pesto burger sauce just takes things to the next level. It's so simple it's genius! We just mixed 2 tablespoon of low fat yogurt with 2 tablespoon pesto - that's it. Shop bought pesto works great, but we used our amazing Mixed Herb Pesto for this recipe.

We even recently discovered a yogurt that carried the red tractor label too, so we can be sure that it has been responsibly produced.

Two chicken burgers with a bottle of beer and jars of pesto

FAQs

Should chicken burgers be grilled or fried?

We fried our burgers in a pan to give them that nice crispy coating, but you could always grill them instead. Either put them under the grill (broiler) or pop them on the BBQ. For grilling, they will need about 5-7 minutes each side.

Extra tips

You could use lean beef mince instead of chicken to make a pesto beef burger.
Sneak a some vegetables in by adding in some grated courgette. It will bulk the burgers out a little and add some extra goodness.
If you don't like the strong peppery flavour of rocket lettuce, you could swap it for iceberg instead.
Go bun-less and use a giant lettuce leaf instead for a low carb option. You could even use grilled Portobello mushrooms.
We fried the burgers in a pan, but you could save yourself some oil and cook them under the grill instead or on the BBQ.
Mix things up a little and swap the cheddar for some Swiss cheese or goats cheese.
These go great with some of our Oven Baked Onion Rings.

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