Homemade Ground Chicken-Chickpea Burgers

This recipe for homemade ground chicken-chickpea burgers is bursting with quinoa, oat bran, chopped prunes, and a surprise ingredient: beets.

• Preparation Time: 35 mins
• Cooking Time: 35 mins
• Total Time: 1 hr 10 mins
• Calories: 229 Calories

Ingredients

• 1 teaspoon salt
• 1 teaspoon ground black pepper
• 1 teaspoon ground cumin
• 1 (15.5 ounce) can chickpeas
• 1 teaspoon ground chile pepper
• 8 ounces ground chicken
• 3 prunes, minced
• 1 tablespoon minced poblano pepper
• 1.5 cups water
• 0.25 cup minced onion
• 0.5 cup oat bran
• 0.5 cup egg whites
• 0.5 cup dry quinoa
• 0.5 cup minced beets

Recipe Instructions

Step 1

Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C).

Step 2

Bring water and quinoa to a boil in a saucepan. Reduce heat to medium-low, cover, and simmer until quinoa is tender, 15 to 20 minutes.

Step 3

Mash chickpeas roughly in a bowl. Add cooked quinoa, chicken, egg whites, beets, oat bran, onion, prunes, poblano pepper, salt, chile powder, cumin, and black pepper. Mix well. Form into 6 equal-size patties. Wrap in aluminum foil.

Step 4

Bake in the preheated oven until no longer pink in the center and any juices run clear, about 20 minutes. An instant-read thermometer inserted into the center should read at least 165 degrees F (74 degrees C).