Sweet & Sour Chicken Pita Burgers

Total Time: 50 mins Preparation Time: 10 mins Cook Time: 40 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 4
• 2 garlic cloves
• 1/3 cup green onion, roughly chopped
• 1/2 cup fresh cilantro leaves
• 1 1/2 teaspoons fresh ginger, grated
• 1/2 cup canned pineapple chunk, reserve the juice for later
• 2 teaspoons soy sauce
• 1 lb boneless skinless chicken breast, cut into chunks
• 1/2 cup dried breadcrumbs
• 1 egg
• 4 pita bread, toasted
• 1/2 cup pineapple juice, previously reserved from canned pineapple
• 1 tablespoon cornflour
• 1/3 cup ketchup
• 1/4 cup rice wine vinegar
• 1/3 cup canned pineapple chunk, chopped up
• 1 tablespoon soy sauce
• 2 tablespoons sugar or 2 tablespoons splenda granular

Recipe

• 1 put the garlic, green onions, cilantro leaves, ginger, pineapple chunks and soy sauce into a food processor and blitz for about 45 seconds to 1 minute until everything is chopped up very finely. you want the mixture to almost be a paste.
• 2 scrape the mixture into a large bowl and set aside.
• 3 put the raw chicken into the food processor, in batches if necessary, and whiz for a minute or so until it is very finely chopped up and looking close to ground chicken.
• 4 put into the bowl with the first mixture and add in the breadcrumbs and egg.
• 5 use your hands to combine all the ingredients, making sure everything gets well mixed in with each other.
• 6 form into four burger patties and put into the fridge to chill for 30 minutes or longer.
• 7 once the burgers are ready either cook them in a skillet with a bit of oil for 5 minutes on each side or cook on a foreman type grill for about 10 minutes. either way make sure the chicken is fully cooked before finishing.
• 8 while the burgers are cooking put the pineapple juice into a small bowl and mix with the cornstarch. put to one side.
• 9 put the ketchup, rice wine vinegar, pineapple chunks, soy sauce and sugar or splenda into a saucepan.
• 10 turn the burner on to a medium high heat and stir just to combine the ingredients.
• 11 pour in the pineapple juice mixture and stir until the mixture thickens up. this only takes a matter of minutes so keep a close eye on it because it can very easily burn.
• 12 toast the pita breads and split them open lengthwise.
• 13 stuff them with whatever you like in your burger. we went with just some crisp lettuce.
• 14 then put one burger into each pita and spoon on the amount of sweet and sour sauce to fit your taste. keep a napkin handy because they can get messy!