Chicken Burger Recipe
Updated: June 13, 2024, By Swasthi
Make the easiest Chicken Burger at home with my easy step by step guide. Who doesn’t love those juicy & succulent chicken breasts/thighs fried to perfection? These homemade Chicken Burgers are loaded with the best tasting tender crispy chicken & dressed with a simple homemade sauce. For a healthier choice you may air fry or oven bake the chicken.
This homemade Chicken Burger is a show stopper! Once you try this recipe, I am sure you are going to make it time and again like me. My kids love burgers and they say these are much better than what you get in those burger chains.
But why make them at home when easily available everywhere? Firstly these are made with fresh chicken (not frozen), fried in good quality oil, the sauce is whipped up to your taste and assembled to your preferences. To me, it is the usage of high quality ingredients that really matter! This recipe consists of 3 components – make the crispy chicken, make the burger sauce and assemble the burger.
What you need
- Chicken: At the heart of a great chicken burger is the best fried patty and essential to this is tender and good quality chicken. While I prefer to use chicken breasts you may use thighs if you want.
- Other ingredients for the patties: We flavor the chicken with all-spice and brine in buttermilk/yogurt or a brine solution. Later the chicken is dredged in all-purpose flour and egg mixture before it goes into the bread crumbs/panko crumbs which give them the perfect crust.
- Sauce: Mayonnaise, virgin olive oil, lemon juice, mustard, ground pepper make up the easiest and delicious sauce. To spice up you may use hot sauce like sriracha or peri peri.
- Veggies: You need lettuce, tomatoes and pickled onions (if you want) to assemble the chicken burgers. Pickled cucumbers, beets, jalapenos also go well.
- Bread rolls: You need bread rolls/ burger buns to assemble.
- Optional ingredients you may use: Avocado and cheese.
- Substitutes: You can substitute Mayonnaise with sour cream, cream cheese or strained yogurt (Greek Yogurt)
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Photo Guide
How to make Chicken burger (Stepwise Photos)
Brine the Chicken
1. Add ¼ cup plain yogurt to a large pot. Add ¾ to 1 cup water. Whisk it well. Add half tsp salt.
2. Add any spice powders or herbs you like. This is only for flavoring and is optional. I prefer to use ¼ tsp all spice. You can even just add half tsp ground black pepper.
3. If the chicken breasts are too thick you may slice them. Add them to the brining liquid and cover. Rest for a minimum of 4 hours to overnight in the refrigerator. This helps to keep the fried chicken juicy and tender. I would not suggest skipping these steps unless you use a meat tenderizer.
4. Add flour to a wide plate along with very little salt and chili flakes or red chili powder. Mix together and set aside. You can also add your favorite seasonings now.
5. Break egg to another wide bowl. Add 2 tbsp. water. Beat it well until frothy.
Fry the Chicken Patties
6. Drain the liquid from the chicken completely. Place a breast in the flour and coat it well on both the sides. Alternately you can spread all of them at one time in a wide plate. Coat well with the flour.
7. Dip it in the beaten egg.
8. Place it on the bread crumbs. Roll it well.
9. Place it in a plate. Repeat this process for all the breasts. Set aside for 5 mins. For one of the patties i added extra spice powders to bread crumbs.
10. Heat oil in a pan on a medium high flame. When the oil is hot enough, deep fry them on both sides turning as needed. Do not fry on a high flame else the patty will turn brown while the meat remains uncooked. Also frying on a low flame will make them hard and chewy. I fried 2 in one batch.
11. Transfer them to a cooling rack or kitchen tissue.
Assemble the Burger
12. Slice the burger buns. Toast them. Place the patty over the bun.
13. Place the lettuce, tomatoes and onions (optional)
14. Add mayonnaise or hung curd to a bowl. Add mustard, lemon juice, salt and pepper. Whisk together with little olive oil. You can also add ketchup if you like.
15. Add that over the tomatoes. Place the other half of the bun/dinner roll. Enjoy chicken burger with a cup of hot tea and French Fries.
Hope you will love this chicken burger recipe as much as we do.
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Chicken Burger Recipe
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Ingredients (US cup = 240ml )
- 3 Chicken breasts (sliced to 5 or 6, about 500 grams)
- ¼ cup plain yogurt (to brine)
- ¼ tsp all spice powder or ground pepper
- 1 cup water
- Salt as needed
- 1 cup all-purpose flour or rice flour (prefer organic / unbleached/ unbromated )
- 1 tsp chili flakes or chili powder
- 1 ¼ cup bread crumbs or panko
- 1 egg (prefer organic)
- Oil for deep frying
- 6 burger buns (dinner rolls)
for sauce or dressing
- ½ cup Mayonnaise or Greek yogurt
- 2 to 3 tbsp extra virgin olive oil
- 2 tbsp lemon juice
- 1 ½ tsp dry mustard or mustard sauce as needed
- ½ tsp ground pepper
To assemble
- 4 to 6 lettuce leaves or as needed
- Tomatoes deseeded and cut to rings
Instructions
- Whisk together yogurt, salt, all spice or ground pepper and water. Slice the breasts if they are too thick. Place them in the buttermilk and rest for a minimum of 4 hours to overnight in the refrigerator.
- Mix together little salt, red chili powder and flour. Keep aside. Beat egg with 2 tbsp water. Keep aside.
- Remove the chicken and place them in the flour and coat them well. Dip in the egg mixture and then roll in the bread crumbs. Rest for 10 mins.
- Deep fry in hot oil on a medium high heat until golden and crisp. Your meat thermometer should read 165F in the thickest part. Remove to a cooling rack. Fry the chicken in batches.
- Slice and toast the dinner rolls on a griddle. Place the fried chicken, then lettuce and tomato.
- Prepare a sauce by stirring mayo, mustard, olive oil, pepper, salt and lemon juice.
- Add this generously over the tomatoes. You can also add tomato ketchup or any other preferred sauce. Place the other half of the dinner roll.
- Serve chicken burger immediately.
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Comments
Hi would it work if we shallow fry the chicken on a grill pan – I guess it wonโt be crispy then but would it still work?
Hi,
I haven’t tried it. Not sure if it will cook well inside. It works well in oven
Why was this recipe posted on a vegetarian site?
This is not a vegetarian food blog
hi,
could you please just urgently clarify what you mean by mustard powder? can i just roast and powder mustard seeds at home and use them?
thanks
Yes lightly roast the mustard and powder. Do not over roast they turn bitter.
i am very impressed with all of your
recipes.
Thanks Cynthia
Can i add cheese and cabbage (instead of lettuce) to my burger?
Yes sneha you can use cheese and cabbage. You can clean the cabbage, shred and mix with cheese as well.
i really like both recipe specially chicken shawarma recipe i will definetly try .
Hi Sarika
Thank you. Do try them and share with us how they turned out.
the recepe which i saw was very good and its very easy to make at home with hieing
Thanks Vinay
The RecipesV which i was saw its very useful and its very easy to make at home and it is very higine
Thank you
nice recipe!!
Thanks Mittal