Happy Monday Guys!
Curry and apples and goat cheese, oh my! I’m clearly loving this fig goat cheese that I bought from Harris Teeter. I’ve used it in a salad here, and last week I made a snack with it by putting it on some toast with oven roasted cinnamon green apples, and a drizzle of honey. When I buy an item for a recipe, I typically like to have a couple other recipe ideas in mind to make sure the item doesn’t get wasted.
So last Wednesday as fig goat cheese was sitting in my fridge I was watching an episode of Master Chef. Side note: Who else is excited to see one of the judges from Chopped as a judge on the show? Anyway, the contestants had to make a dish using 12 of the most commonly bought grocery items in the US. Two of the items were chicken and green apples. In one of the three top dishes a contestant ended up making homemade apple chicken sausage. That’s when my wheels started turning.
What about a chicken and apple burger?! I already had the green apples and pita. To season it I thought curry would be great a) because curry is always great, and b) because curry, green apples, and chicken go really well together. And oh wait, then I remembered I still had some fig goat cheese left. How good would that be?! Totally rhetorical question as I already knew it would be a winner, winner chicken dinner. So chicken, apple, and fig goat cheese burgers it was.
I love how seamless this is. You mix everything together in one bowl and then cook it stovetop. You guys this is so freaking good.
Ingredients:
1lb Ground chicken
1/3 cup diced green apples (no need to remove the skin unless you want to)
1/3 cup diced white onions
2 oz. fig goat cheese (from Harris Teeter; plain is perfectly fine if you can’t find fig goat cheese)
1.5 tsp curry powder
1 tbsp cilantro
1/2 tsp sea salt
1/4 tsp black pepper
1 tbsp vegetable oil (any oil should be fine really – coconut, olive, etc.)
Directions:
Add the curry, cilantro, salt, and black pepper to the ground chicken and mix.
Fold in the diced apples, onions, and goat cheese.
Form them into patties (should get approximately 4). 
Heat up one tablespoon of oil on the stove letting it get to a medium heat. Cook for about 5 minutes on each side (until inside reaches internal temperature of 165 degrees F).
I topped it off with some greens and dressed the greens with the fig balsamic spray that I used here.
I had it on pita because I happened to have some, but it would taste just as good on a burger bun.
Enjoy!
When you try this (because it really should be a “when” not an “if”) report back and tell me how much you love it!
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