Grilled Chipotle Chicken Burger Recipe with Adobo Aioli
A juicy grilled chicken burger that is flavored with chipotle in adobo and served with pepper jack cheese and a chipotle aioli. Listen to the audio recipe with the player below.
Preheat grill to high heat and prepare a baking sheet lined with wax paper cut into squares and spray them generously with nonstick cooking spray.Pro Tip: The wax paper squares will help you transfer the sticky chicken burgers to the grill!
In a medium bowl combine the parsley, adobo sauce, garlic, onion powder, salt, pepper, milk, and mayonnaise. Stir to combine.
Add in the bread cubes and mash the mixture together with a fork until it forms a chunky paste. Add the ground chicken. Gently mix everything together until just combined.
1 slice white or wheat sandwich bread, 1 pound ground chicken
Form the mixture into 4-5 equal sized patties. They will be quite sticky. Place them on the prepared wax paper squares on the baking sheet. Then spray the tops of the patties with cooking spray to prevent sticking to the grill.
Grill the burgers over direct heat for approximately 4 minutes per side or until the internal temperature reads 165 degrees with an instant read thermometer.
Top with pepper jack cheese slices the last minute of grilling time.
Serving
Serve burgers on toasted brioche buns topped very generously with the Adobo Aioli and your favorite burger toppings.
Adobo Aioli
Stir the ingredients together in a small bowl.
½ cup mayo, ¾ teaspoon sugar, 1 small chipotle chile pepper in adobo sauce, 1 garlic clove, juice of ½ a lime, ½ teaspoon adobo sauce
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Notes
NOTES:
Buy a small can of Chipotle Chili Peppers in Adobo Sauce. You will find it in the Mexican Food aisle at your grocery store. They are spicy! But we are not adding enough to make your Chipotle Chicken Burgers overly spicy!
Ground Chicken: For the best grilled chicken burgers you want to purchase a ground chicken that has some dark meat included, will usually be marked 93% lean ground chicken and 7% fat.You want to avoid the extra lean ground chicken. Sometimes marked as ground chicken breast meat, or extra lean ground chicken, or it will be labeled as 98% lean and 2% fat.