Cajun chicken burgers with corn on the cob
Butterflied chicken breasts rubbed with a smoky homemade Cajun spice mix, grilled and stacked in soft buns with cool, crunchy toppings.
Ingredients
- 500 g Chicken breast, 2 large, halved horizontally into 4 thin steaks
- 6 g Smoked paprika
- 2 g Dried thyme
- 2 g Dried oregano
- 2 g Chilli powder, a good pinch, optional
- 0.1 Garlic, 1 clove, crushed
- 15 ml Vegetable oil
- 4 Burger buns, split
- 1 Little gem lettuce, leaves separated
- 2 Tomatoes, sliced
- 60 g Mayonnaise
- 0.5 Limes
- 4 Corn on the cob
- 20 g Butter
Method
- Mix the paprika, thyme, oregano, chilli powder and a good pinch of salt with the oil and garlic, then rub all over the chicken.
- Cook the corn in a big pan of boiling water until tender, then drain and brush with butter.
- Heat a griddle or frying pan over a medium-high heat and cook the chicken until charred and cooked through with no pink in the middle.
- Stir a squeeze of lime into the mayo.
- Toast the cut sides of the buns in the pan, then build the burgers with lettuce, tomato, chicken and a dollop of lime mayo. Serve with the corn.