Chicken Satay Burgers

As it turns out, you won't be hearing reviews on either of the dishes I mentioned yesterday. We ended up having Chicken Satay Burgers with Peanut Sauce last night and take-out Chinese tonight. I forgot to take a photo of the burgers, but really, they're burgers, you know what they look like.

I thought they had excellent potential, but needed some serious tweaking. If you look at the actual recipe it calls for a 1/4 C of fresh cilantro. Do you have ANY IDEA how much cilantro that is?! And I really like cilantro, but even with cutting the amount back, it was overpowering. Also, it told me to grate an entire onion. I sort of just stared at the recipe for a minute, not processing how or why you would grate an onion, but I got out the cheese grater and did it anyway. It does give it a different texture because it basically liquefies it, but in the end it was totally unnecessary. Save that, I thought they were great. I did cheat and use both the peanut sauce as well as ketchup, but I put peanut butter and ketchup on regular burgers, so that's no surprise. I will say that the ground chicken was incredibly moist, more so than turkey burgers.

But while I was tasting and analyzing the new recipe, B was busy having a ginger FREAK OUT. He agreed that the burger would be good if not for the cilantro bomb, but spent the rest of the time chewing slowly and looking off into the distance deep in thought. About half way through he said "what's in the peanut sauce??" As I ran through the ingredients (peanut butter, soy sauce, rice wine vinegar, sesame oil, garlic, fresh ginger) he screamed "Ginger! Oh my God... I. HATE. GINGER! I just realized that right now. I never knew that before!" It was all down hill after that and he filled up the rest of the way with ice cream and hot fudge.