Servings: 4 full sized burgers
Calories: 205.8kcal
Equipment
- Cutting board
- Chef knife
- mixing bowl
- measuring cups and spoons
- small bowl
- Wooden spoon
- plate
- skillet
- aluminum foil
Ingredients
Burger Mixture
- 1 lb ground chicken, 92% lean
- ½ c Panko bread crumbs or homemade ones
- 2 tbsp chopped onion
- 2 tbsp chopped celery
- 4 tsp McCormick original Buffalo wing spice mix (see note below)
- ¼ tsp black pepper
- ¼ tsp salt
Buffalo Blue Cheese Sauce
- 2 tbsp plain non-fat yogurt, Greek yogurt can be substituted
- 1 tbsp Bolthouse Farms blue cheese dressing
- 1 tsp Frank's Buffalo wing sauce
For Burgers or Sliders
- 647 Schmidt's sandwich rolls or your favorite low carb rolls
- slider buns, I used Sam's buns.
- iceberg, romaine or butter lettuce leaves
Instructions
Making the Burgers
- Place the chopped onion and celery in a microwaveable bowl. Microwave on high for 1 min or until the veggies are tender. You can sauté them instead if you wish just make sure to add the pts for the oil you use.
- Place the ground chicken into a mixing bowl. Add the Panko bread crumbs, microwaved onion and celery, salt. pepper and 3 tsp of the McCormick wing seasoning mix.
- Use your hands to mix all the burger ingredients together. Pinch off a small piece, about the size of a fifty cent piece, flatten it out and put in on a napkin. Microwave it on high for 25 sec. Let it cool for a min. and then taste it. Add the 4th tsp of McCormick wing seasoning mix if you think it is needed. I used all 4 tsp of the seasoning mix. I did another taste test to make sure I was satisfied with the wing flavor. You may like a stronger wing taste so don't be afraid to add more seasoning mix. Let your taste buds guide you.
- I used a food scale and weighed out 4 oz portions for burger and 2 oz portions for sliders. I put the portions of burger mix on a large piece of aluminum foil, and then shaped them into burgers.
- Add some water to a skillet and then placed the burgers in the skillet to cook. The water is sufficient to give the burgers a head start in cooking without sticking until some of the fat in the burgers renders out. Cook on one side and flip to cook the other side. If the burgers start to stick once they are flipped, add a small amount of water to the skillet. Transfer the cooked burgers to a plate and set aside.
Making the Buffalo Blue Cheese Sauce
- Place the plain non-fat yogurt, blue cheese dressing and Buffalo wing sauce in a small bowl and mix until all the ingredients are mixed together. If you have any Buffalo blue cheese dip in the refrigerator, you can use that instead.
Constructing the Burgers/Sliders
- Spread some of the Buffalo blue cheese sauce on both sides of the sandwich or slider rolls.
- Place a lettuce leaf on the bottom half of the roll.
- Place the burger on top of the lettuce leaf.
- Put a dollop of the Buffalo blue cheese sauce on top of the burger and then put the top of the roll on the burger.
- Serve and enjoy. If you do not use all of the burgers you made, wrap them in plastic wrap, place in a freezer bag and freeze. They freeze and reheat well.
Notes
When I first made these burgers, I used 6 tsp of Frank's Buffalo wing sauce. It made the chicken mixture very wet and pasty. It required additional bread crumbs to make the chicken mixture workable. The flavor was good but the points from the extra bread crumbs was a deal breaker for me, so I looked for another way.
I replaced the liquid Buffalo wing sauce with McCormick's dry Buffalo wing seasoning mix. The flavor was good, it reduced the amount of bread crumbs needed and the flavor was good.
To keep the points low on the bread crumbs, you can make your own from low carb bread or use Panko bread crumbs. The amount of points for my homemade bread crumbs are the same for an equivalent amount of Panko bread crumbs (3 pt per 1/2 c).
The nutritional info for approximately 4 oz burgers are at the bottom of the recipe card.
The nutritional info for the 2 oz burgers are below:
Calories 91.4 kcal | Fat 4 g | Sat. fat 0.9 g | Carbs 3.2 g | Fiber 0.1 g | Tot. sugar 0.4 g | Protein 10.1 g | Sodium 184 mg
Nutritional info is not included for the sandwich rolls.
The Buffalo blue cheese sauce is 0 pt per tbsp. I used about a tbsp per sandwich.
Nutrition
Serving: 4oz | Calories: 205.8kcal | Carbohydrates: 7.2g | Protein: 22.8g | Fat: 9g | Saturated Fat: 2g | Sodium: 414mg | Fiber: 0.3g | Sugar: 1g
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