Chicken Burgers with Mushroom Sauce

Name: Chicken Burgers with Mushroom Sauce (Kotlety Pojarskie s Gribnym Sousom)
Cuisine: Russian
Ingredients: 600 g/1 lb 6 oz minced (ground) chicken breast; 1 egg; 75 g/3 oz/1½ cups fresh white breadcrumbs; 25 g/1 oz dried sliced mushrooms, such as porcini, soaked for 2-3 hours; 25 g/1 oz dried sliced mushrooms, such as porcini, soaked for 2-3 hours; 700 ml/1 pint 3½ fl oz/scant 3 cups water; 1 onion, chopped; 30 ml/2 tbsp rapeseed (canola) oil; 15 ml/1 tbsp plain white (all-purpose) flour; 45 ml/3 tbsp smetana or crème fraîche; 45 ml/3 tbsp smetana or crème fraîche; salt and ground black pepper; 1 kg/2¼ lb floury potatoes; 200-250 ml/7-8 fl oz/scant 1-1 cup warm milk; 15 g/½ oz/1 tbsp butter; salt

Kotlety Pojarskie s Gribnym Sousom

Preparation info

Serves
4

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Recipes from My Russian Grandmother's Kitchen

By Elena Makhonko

Published 2015

About

Burgers made with minced meat, fish or vegetables, are everyday food in Russia and the Russians love them. Chicken burgers are served in restaurants coated with crisp snippets of toasted bread rather than breadcrumbs, and are delicious eaten with puréed potatoes.

Ingredients

600 g/1 lb 6 oz minced (ground) chicken breast
1

Europe
Russia
Burger
Low sugar
Low fat
High protein
Low sodium

Method

For the mushroom sauce, put the soaked mushrooms and the water in a pan and simmer for 40 minutes. Using a slotted spoon, remove the mushrooms from the pan, reserving the water.
Heat the oil in a large frying pan, add the onion and fry, stirr

Energy 588kcal/2479kJ; Protein 46.6g; Carbohydrate 61.6g, of which sugars 7.3g; Fat 19g, of which saturates 7.8g; Cholesterol 178mg; Calcium 131mg; Fibre 3.3g; Sodium 331mg.