BBQ CHICKEN BURGERS AND CHEESY FRENCH FRIES

BBQ Chicken Burgers and Cheesy French Fries image

Provided by Member 610488

Time 45m

Yield 4 serving(s)

Number Of Ingredients 14

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 monterey jack pepper cheese or 1/2 cup shredded gorgonzola
snipped fresh chives
8 dinner rolls or 8 cocktail-sized hamburger buns, split
sliced tomatoes
sliced lettuce

Steps:

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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
NOTE: Burger and Fries can be pan fried.

Nutrition Facts : Calories 385.2, Fat 9.8, SaturatedFat 2.6, Cholesterol 49, Sodium 753.1, Carbohydrate 53.5, Fiber 2.4, Sugar 17, Protein 20.7