How to cook the perfect chicken burger

Pan Fry Chicken Burger

Add one tsp of sunflower oil to your pan and preheat over a high heat for 30-60 seconds. Add your chicken burger to your pre-heated pan. They should start to sizzle straight away, This sizzling noise will start loud and then fades away. This is because you have added cold burgers to a hot pan, the burgers have cooled the pan down, but don't worry the heat will build up again and they should start to sizzle again within 15-30 seconds. Once they have started to sizzle again, turn your hob to a medium heat, turn the burgers in the oil after 6 minutes. Turn each burger keeping the pale side facing down to cook evenly. After 13 minutes of frying over a medium heat your burger should be ready.

Oven Baked Chicken Burger

Fan Assisted Oven

Preheat your oven to 180 degrees. Add your chicken burger to your aluminium foil lined baking sheet. Pop your tray on the on the middle shelf in the oven. After 14 minutes turn the burger over so the pale side is facing up and cook for a further 6 minutes. After 20 minutes cooking at 180 degrees your burgers should bee ready.

Grilled Chicken Burger

Grill

Preheat your oven to 190 degrees. Add you chicken burger to your aluminium foil lined baking tray. Pop your tray on the middle shelf. After 10 minutes turn the burger over so the pale side is facing up and grill for a further 10 minutes. After 18- 20 minutes of grilling at 190 degrees your burger should be ready.

Health Grill (George Forman)

Pre-heat your grill until the green light some on. Add your chicken burger to your grill ( no oil required) and close the lid. After 3 1/2 minutes turn your burger over so the pale side is facing up and grill for a further 3 minutes. After 6 1/2 minutes of grilling your burgers should be grilled.

Charcoal BBQ Chicken Burger

BBQ Prep

Start with a sheet of newspaper, screw it up into a ball and stand in the middle of the fire pit on your BBQ. Use small pieces of kindling to build a “wigwam” shape around your ball of newspaper. Light your newspaper, and let the fire take hold of the wood (fire lighting blocks or liquid can be used at this point if needed). Place 10-12 large pieces of charcoal on top of the “wigwam” being careful not to burn your hands. leave plenty of space for air to get into the fire. Leave the fire to ignite the charcoal. You will hear a slight crackling once it is ablaze, Add more charcoal to create a fire bed and then let it burn through until the flames have died down dn it is glowing orange. Once your charcoal bed is glowing, place your grill over the top( we found 15cm was a good height to have your grill above your charcoal bed. Prime your grills with a brush of cooking oil.

Lets BBQ

Put your chicken burger on your grill. If your BBQ has a lid, close it at this point to hold the temperature. Leave for 7 minutes. After 7 minutes open the lid and flip your burgers. From this point keep an eye on your burgers and keep turning them as you see necessary, keeping the palest part of each burger facing down towards to coals. Keep the BBQ lid closed when you are not turning your burger. After 12 minutes, your chicken burgers should be ready.