Asian Chicken Burgers

Ingredients

• 1 small carrots 
• 3 teaspoons asian chili sauce such as sambal oelek hot
• 1 tablespoon ginger grated peeled
• 1 pound ground chicken 
• 0.3 cup hoisin sauce 
• 1  juice of lime 
• 4 teaspoons soya sauce low-sodium
• 0.3 cup panko bread crumbs (Japanese breadcrumbs)
• 1 small onion red halved
• 2 teaspoons sesame oil toasted
• 4  sesame hamburger buns whole-wheat
• 8 ounces mushrooms white thinly sliced

Equipment

• bowl
• baking sheet
• oven

Directions

1. Preheat the oven to 375 degrees F. Mist a baking sheet with cooking spray. Grate the carrot and 1/2 onion into a large bowl.
2. Add the chicken, panko, 2 tablespoons hoisin sauce, the ginger, 3 teaspoons soy sauce and 1 teaspoon sambal oelek and mix until combined. Shape the chicken mixture into 4 patties and place on the prepared baking sheet.
3. Bake until cooked through, about 20 minutes. Meanwhile, thinly slice the remaining 1/2 onion. Toss with the mushrooms, sesame oil, lime juice and the remaining 1 teaspoon soy sauce in a bowl.
4. Mix the remaining 2 tablespoons hoisin sauce and 2 teaspoons sambal oelek with 1 tablespoon water in another bowl. Warm the hamburger buns in the oven.
5. Serve the burgers on the buns with a drizzle of the hoisin-sambal sauce and some of the mushroom mixture.
6. Photograph by Antonis Achilleos