BBQ Chicken Burgers and Cheesy French Fries

• barbecue sauce↗1⁄3 cup
• grape jelly or 1/3 cup seedless raspberry jam↗1⁄3 cup
• frozen waffle cut French-fried potatoes or 3 cups frozen thick cut French-fried potatoes↗3 cup
• bacon↗4

  ready-to-serve cooked, chopped

• dry breadcrumbs↗2 tablespoons

  finely chopped

• honey-roasted walnuts or 2 tablespoons almonds, finely chopped↗2 tablespoons
• barbecue sauce↗1 tablespoon
• poultry seasoning1⁄2 teaspoon
• ground chicken or 8 ounces ground turkey↗8 ounces
• shredded monterey jack pepper cheese or 1/2 cup shredded gorgonzola1⁄2 cup
• snipped fresh chives
• dinner rolls or 8 cocktail-sized hamburger buns, split↗8
• sliced tomatoes
• sliced lettuce

Step-by-step instructions

1. 1

   Preheat oven to 425°F Combine the 1/3 cup barbecue sauce and the jelly or jam. Mix with a wire whisk until smooth. Set aside.

2. 2

   Arrange waffle-cut potatoes or thick-cut french fried potatoes in a single layer on an ungreased baking sheet. Sprinkle with chopped bacon. Bake for 8 minutes.

3. 3

   Meanwhile, in a bowl combine bread crumbs, nuts, the 1 tablespoon barbecue sauce, poultry seasoning, 1/4 teaspoon salt, and 1/8 teaspoon ground black pepper. Add ground chicken; mix well.

4. 4

   Shape into 8 balls; place 2 inches apart on greased shallow baking pan. Moisten the bottom of a glass and press each ball to about 1/4 inch thickness.

5. 5

   Place pan of burgers in oven. Bake fries and burgers for 5 minutes. Stir fries; turn burgers. Continue baking burgers and potatoes for 5 more minutes.

6. 6

   Sprinkle cheese over fries. Brush barbecue sauce mixture on burgers. Bake burgers and potatoes 2 minutes more or until burgers are no longer pink in center and cheese is melted on fries.

7. 7

   To serve, sprinkle fries with snipped chives. Place mini burgers in cocktail buns with additional barbecue-jelly mixture spooned over. Top with tomato slices and/or lettuce.

8. 8

   NOTE: Burger and Fries can be pan fried.