pieces of bread and some mayonnaise Unless of course you give it an italian twist

Oooooo I like it Sacre bleu

Italian Jamie! Ahh say swe say swoi??! WTF?

So we are going to make our chicken burger, make our very own version

using a red pesto and breadcrumb coating Hell yes! So thats our Italian twist

Served in a nice fresh Ciabatta loaf, some salad and some really bouncy lovely mozzarella

Bouncy, bouncy?!

Italian flavours on a classic.

So to start with we will get our chicken underway... what we want to do

is batter them out a bit so that they are nice and flat and they will cook evenly

so that they are nice and flat and they will cook evenly

because obviously a chicken breast is always going to be

bigger at one end than the other so with no knives just flatten them out a bit

without knocking holes in them Just use the palm of your hand

That is battered... well and truly

Flat breasted enough?! Try not to go quite so aggressively

I got a little bit carried away What you are looking for is a nice flat breast like that

what we nee to do is smear our red pesto

and this is our twist, onto here. So traditionally and chicken burger would be made with panne

so flower, egg and breadcrumbs

we are going to get rid of the flower and egg, and we are just going to put pesto on. So if you could just rub that into our chicken breast. Damn

So that you get a nice good smearing, and jaust while he does that if you could emty out breadcrumbs

into a bowl

onto that plate

now these breadcrumbs are ones that we put in the freezer

ages and ages ago

from when we had a third of a loaf left over

before it goes stale

blitz it up

put it in the freezer, then you always have them to hand

so what we'll need is a little bit of oil heated up in our pan

like so

and then... how's your chicken coming along?

smothered You are well and truly smothered... if you can just put one very carefully into there

there we go, and all we need to do is get those breadcrumbs to stick to the pesto

and because we flattened it out it will cook nice and quick

we're making our chicken burger with these really rustic crumbs

and if you can put the other one in there I just washed my hands! And again

it's what you are here for, I dont want to get messy. There we go.

You can just tell that this is going to be delicious

you can already smell the pesto and stuff like that... such awesome flavours

so once we have all those breadcrumbs on there

into our pan, a medium heat

you want it to fry

but not burn before it cooks. We'll put the other into the pan next to it

like that, job done

The next bit is to make our salad. So everything is going to into our bun

so you mentioned you like a nice bap, the lettuce the mayonnaise

its exactly what we are going for

Ciabatta so a nice ciabatta loaf It's got the letter T in it barry!

so a little smearing of mayonnaise

nice! If you can put that on there

and jamie you are going to make our pesto mayonnaise to go on the side

so if you can just stir that into there

what a combo!

that's to dunk with later on, and you'll se that in a second

we've got a pesto mayonnaise there and plain mayonnaise here

now, take some of our lettuce leaves, ice berg if you like...

it's got a nice crunch Romano?

if you can slice some tomatoes I can Across this way

so it's important we are not cooking these chicken breasts too quickly, otherwise the bread will burn

but we should now be able to turn them over

and get a nice golden crunch

Smells so good!

we'll give that another couple of seconds on the other side

Jamie, now you have mixed that can you put it in there so it looks nice and tidy

and over on this side

our final italian flavour, mozzarella. So if you can just slice a couple of slices of those

Awesome. Now what we need to do is add a couple of layers of tomato onto the sandwich

couple of mozzarella, put it on last so that when the chicken goes on top

it helps it melt

in fact we have enough here for

two anyway so

i'll just cut through there

Even on its own it's and awesome sandwich It is an awesome sandwich

even without the chicken, but i think chicken will take it to another level. and its kind of crucial...

in a chicken burger

now our chicken is done always check it and cut into it to make sure it is clear all the way through

but we can now place

the chicken onto that mozzarella

it'll really help it ooze, for now we will plate one and come back to the others

look at that! Jamies got some chips in the oven

Yes I have!

these are simply cut up into chunks, skin on and cooked

in a hot oven

for about forty minutes

So they go nice and crispy. And you've that awesome awesome dip there J Thank you very much ;)

So there you go... our take on a chicken burger with an italian twist

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the mozzarella! So good

a simple change

with the pesto instead of the egg and flour

completely transforms the dish... Much better than a takeaway

Much better than any fast food!

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