We love burgers here at Have Butter will Travel and these keto chicken burgers are no different. This keto chicken burger recipe uses halloumi and zucchini to add texture and flavour to the keto chicken pattie. At only 2g of carbs for 2 patties, these are the perfect low carb meal. Make up a batch of these burgers as part of your keto meal prep and you will have a delicious meal ready to go during the week. They can easily be stored on the fridge or freezer.
Keto chicken burger recipe
This keto chicken burger recipe came about after my brother told us about these delicious burgers his wife had been making. He explained what was in them and that he thought they would be something we would be able to eat. His wife has some intolerances and wanted to find a burger that suited her health needs and that Josh would eat.
They were both keen for us to experiment with the recipe and come up with our own tasty recipe. Erika loves chives, so she added them for some extra flavour. Josh and his wife have since tried these keto chicken burgers and they were impressed with the results.
We love to pair this keto chicken burger recipe with our ranch dip to make a tasty keto chicken burger lettuce wrap. This is where you get to be creative and make up your favourite burger toppings.
Burgers on Keto
Burgers are such a great keto meal. All you need to do is remove the bun. You can replace the bun with a lettuce wrap or these delicious Diet Doctor low carb rolls. Erika is a big fan of a burger in a bowl, so she likes to have shredded lettuce on the bottom and then top that with the burger patties and her favourite toppings. Dan prefers to pick her burger up and therefore prefers to have it in a lettuce wrap or on a low carb bun.
Whilst traveling in the US, we found bunless burgers or protein style burgers to be the easiest option when eating out. All the burger places we went to would happily sub the bun for a lettuce wrap or a burger bowl. Even at the airport, we were able to get bunless burgers without too much of a drama.
Burgers are a Friday night treat at our place. We love these keto chicken burgers and we also really enjoy these carnivore burgers. When we have burgers, we build our own. That way we can have what we want on burgers and we are both happy.
Tips
- When mixing the ingredients, make sure you mix them well so they stay binded together.
- You can cook them in the frying pan, or the BBQ. We really enjoy cooking on the BBQ and these grill up well.
- When grating the halloumi, we like to use the thicker grater. It can also be a little messy to grate the halloumi.
Serving Suggestions
- On their own. You don’t have to make these into burgers. They are just as good as a chicken patty on their own.
- Place in a lettuce wrap and top with your favourite burger toppings.
- Place in a low carb burger bun, like these from Diet Doctor. We love these rolls. There are easily the best low carb buns we have tried and believe me, we have tried a few.
Burger toppings
- Bacon
- Fried eggs
- Salad like tomato, avocado or cucumber
- Cheese
- Sauces like sugar free tomato sauce, sugar free BBQ sauce, ranch dip and mustard.
- Pickles
- Jalapenos
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Keto Chicken Burgers – Zucchini and Halloumi
These keto chicken burgers combine chicken mince, zucchini and halloumi to make a tasty chicken pattie. Feel free to get creative when making these burgers. Add your favourite burger toppings for your own custom made burger using some of the suggestions above. Thanks to Josh for this recipe inspiration.
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Ingredients
- 500 g Chicken Mince 1lb
- 250 g Halloumi 8oz
- 1 Zucchini, medium approx 300g/11oz
- 2 tbsp Chives, chopped
- 0.5 tsp Salt
- Pepper
- 2 tbsp Olive Oil, for cooking
Instructions
- Grate zucchini and halloumi and place into a large bowl
- Add the chicken mince, salt, chives and pepper to the zucchini and halloumi and use your hands to mix thoroughly together
- Shape into 8 evenly sized patties
- Preheat a frying pan/skillet over medium-high heat and then add olive oil. Cook the patties in the frying pan for 5-7 minutes each side or until golden brown and cooked through
- Serve immediately
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We love these burgers.
So good.
These burgers are so quick and easy to make and so yummy. The perfect summer meal . I often use a chilli halloumi which adds a little extra bight to the flavour .
Love the chilli halloumi idea – thank you!
I have made this recipe countless of times, it’s always in my monthly rotation. The burgers come out juicy and with a squeeze of lemon I like to eat them with a side salad or a tzatziki dip. It took me a couple of tries with temperature to make sure they didn’t stick to pan, the key for me was low temp, avocado oil sprayed in pan. I have also grilled them, make sure you grease the grates well.
So glad you enjoy these burgers Eleni! Thanks for the review
These burgers are delicious! I would never have thought to grate haloumi into mince before but it is the perfect ingredient and makes the burger so firm and delicious.
Thanks Linda. These are a real winner
These burger patties are spectacular! Made them last night. It’s hands down one of the best things I’ve ever made. The recipe is really generous – we got 9 thick patties out of it, you can easily get more than 10. They’re even dog-friendly, and she was more than happy she got her own patty. 😄 Will be making these regularly, I know it!
Love them will definitely making them again have organised with a friend next weekend to have a zoom Cooking go lesson.
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Awesome! Love that Kathy!
love these burgers, really yummy 🙂
Awesome – thanks so much Paula!
Quick and easy to prepare and very tasty. Brilliant recipe.
Thanks so much Bronwyn – we love how easy it is too!
I made these tonight for dinner. My husband and I are doing keto and our 6 year old is eating anything. I was able to use our homegrown zucchini and homegrown chives and also used a food processor to grate the cheese and zucchini (So lazy!). So easy! These are delicious! Thank you for the awesome recipe. xx
So glad you enjoyed them. They are so good.
Hi, I’d love to make these for my lactose – intolerant son in law. How do you think these would go using another cheese that I can easily obtain, like tasty cheese? Or could I substitute anything else? Thanks
Hi Kerri, We haven’t tried these with another cheese like tasty.
Due to the unique texture of halloumi, I don’t think it would swap out for tasty cheese.
Paneer would be the only substitute I could think of. Hope this helps!
Simple recipe, great burgers. These will be a summer regular. Thanks Dan and Erika.
Thanks so much Tory!
Do you need to squeeze the liquid from the zucchini?
No need to squeeze the zucchini in this recipe Clare. Hope you enjoy!
wonderfully tasty. Fantastic family meal. Thank you Erika and Dan xx
Thanks so much Erina.
I have just found out from a keto fb group that Halloumi is called Bread Cheese in the USA – so I just shared your recipe with the site via this website – they have to come here to get it
Thank you so much for sharing it on FB we appreciate it.
So yummy! Great flavours and texture. Will definitely have these again. The kids loved them too.
Agree Fifi, thanks for all your comments. We loved waking up to your comments and ratings.
Could you freeze these?
Definitely. You can freeze them cooked or pre cooked
These are so tasty!!!!! Perfect amount to feed 3- 4 adults! These are going to be a regular addition to our menu!
I made them in the thermomix (3 seconds on speed 5 to grate the zucchini and 5 seconds on speed 5 to grate the haloumi) and then added the other ingredients to mix.
Thanks so much for the Thermomix instructions. Perfect.
These burgers are totally awesome !
Thanks Nicole