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Chicken Patties - juicy chicken patty recipe with teriyaki sauce. One of the best ground chicken recipes ever! So good and even the pickiest eaters love them.
Chicken Patty Recipe
If you love ground chicken, you’re going to love this extremely juicy, moist and healthy chicken patties recipe.
The chicken is well seasoned with just the perfect balance of flavors. It’s so moist with the juice practically bursts in the mouth.
Serve them as is or best with a dipping sauce such as teriyaki sauce. These are the BEST chicken patties ever!
Ingredients
Ingredients For Chicken Patties
- Ground chicken
- Scallion
- Egg
- Cayenne pepper
- Japanese mirin
- Toasted sesame oil
- Salt
- Ground white pepper
- Cooking oil
Ingredients For Teriyaki Sauce
- Japanese mirin
- Soy sauce
- Sugar
See the recipe card for full information on ingredients.
How To Make Chicken Patties
Step 1: Combine all the ingredients together. Stir to mix well.
Step 2: To shape the ground chicken mixture into patties, wet both hands with water. Scoop up the chicken mixture, shape into a ball and flatten with your hands. Set aside.
Step 3: Heat up a skillet on medium-low heat. Add the cooking oil. Transfer the chicken patties onto the skillet, pan fry for about 1-2 minutes on each side. Turn over and pan fry the other side for another 1-2 minutes. If the center is not cooked through, keep turning back and forth and continue to cook.
Step 4: Combine all the ingredients of the Teriyaki Sauce in a sauce pan. On low heat, simmer and reduce it to a thicker consistency, about 10 minutes. Serve the chicken patties with teriyaki sauce, optional.
Cooking Tips
The best chicken patties should be juicy and moist. However, most store-bought patties such as Costco, Foster Farms are all breaded, dry and tasteless.
Follow my cooking tips, techniques and secrets below for the best ever homemade chicken patties.
- DO NOT use breadcrumbs or panko in the ingredients. Breadcrumbs soak up the natural juice in the ground chicken, making the patty dry with a grainy texture. DO NOT coat the patties with breadcrumbs, too.
- Shallow fry the patties on a skillet with just a little bit of cooking oil. DO NOT deep fry.
- Add 1 tablespoon of cooking wine (you can use white wine or Japanese sweet rice wine “mirin”) into the ground chicken mixture. This will ensure that the patties are bursting with juicy flavors.
Frequently Asked Questions
Yes, you can bake the patties in the oven. I recommend 425F for 8 minutes.
There are many ways to serve the patties. You can eat the patty as is or serve with a dipping sauce such as teriyaki sauce. Another favorite way is to make them into chicken patty sandwich, with burger buns, mini slider buns or slices of bread.
Yes, you sure can. After shaping them into patties, you can wrap them tightly with aluminum foil or plastic wrap. Freeze in the refrigerator for up to a few weeks. To cook, thaw the patties at room temperature before cooking. You can also freeze them after they are cooked. Just reheat in a microwave before serving.
Yes, you can. You can use ground turkey, beef or pork. Other great option is salmon to make salmon patties.
Each chicken patty is only 127 calories per serving. It’s low calories and very healthy!
What To Serve With Chicken Patties
Serve this dish with side dish such as a salad or vegetables. For a healthy meal and easy weeknight dinner, I recommend the following recipes.
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Chicken Patties
Ingredients
- 1 lb. (500g) ground chicken, thaw to room temperature
- 1 egg yolk
- 1 scallion, cut into rounds
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 3 dashes ground white pepper, or black pepper
- 3 dashes cayenne pepper
- 1 tablespoon Japanese mirin , sweet cooking wine, optional
- 1 teaspoon toasted sesame oil
- 2 tablespoons cooking oil
Teriyaki Sauce (Optional)
- 1/3 cup Japanese mirin, sweet rice wine
- 2 tablespoons soy sauce, low sodium preferred
- 1 tablespoon sugar
Instructions
- Combine all the ingredients and stir to mix well.
- To shape the ground chicken mixture into patties, wet both hands with water. Scoop up the mixture, form it into a ball, and then flatten it with your hands. Set aside.
- Heat a skillet over medium-low heat and add the cooking oil. Transfer the chicken patties to the skillet and pan-fry for about 1-2 minutes on each side. If the center is not cooked through, continue to flip the patties back and forth until fully cooked.
- Combine all the ingredients for the Teriyaki Sauce in a saucepan. Simmer on low heat, reducing the sauce to a thicker consistency for about 10 minutes. Serve the chicken patties with the teriyaki sauce, if desired.
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Notes
- If you double the recipe, you can use one egg, including the egg white.
- DO NOT use breadcrumbs or panko in the ingredients.
- Breadcrumbs soak up the natural juice in the ground chicken, making the patty dry with a grainy texture.
- DO NOT coat the patties with breadcrumbs, too.
- Shallow fry the patties on a skillet with just a little bit of cooking oil.
- DO NOT deep fry.
- Add 1 tablespoon of cooking wine (you can use white wine or Japanese sweet rice wine “mirin”) into the ground chicken mixture.
- This will ensure that the patties are bursting with juicy flavors.
Nutrition
Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.
Absolutely delicious, simple, and a guaranteed kid pleaser–although many children, including my grandsons object to scallions, I used a bit of finely diced and sauteed onion instead. As long as the onion bits are small and not green, the kids gobble up the patties. While the teriyaki sauce is nice, my boys love them with Thai chili sauce–it’s pretty mild and they don’t mind a bit of heat as long as the sauce is sweet. So much better for them than breaded and fried chicken nuggets and probably faster to get into those hungry little mouths! I’ve also made this recipe with ground pork to good result.
Hi I had a question could you use pure sesame oil instead of the toasted sesame oil?
You can, it will just change the flavor of it a bit.
The flavor and juiciness was amazing! Thank you!!
You are welcome! I am so glad you enjoyed them.
can you freeze them raw?
Freeze them after cooking.
Have tried a few of your recipes, all have been great. This recipe has good flavor, I baked them so the colour is not golden brown. Will definitely pan fry them the next time. Thanks.
Awesome!
I chopped up a whole jalapeño and some carrot. Did not have mirin, so I added balsamic and did not have sesame oil
Still turned out way tasty
Thanks so much
Sounds good. For mirin, you should replace with white wine.
Do you include the cooking oil in the mixture when you add all the ingredients? Honestly I’ve done it both ways and it works out fine but what are you actually supposed to do?
Absolutely amazing!! I served it with a coleslaw and it was just delicious. :)
Awesome!
Great recipe! I didn’t have cooking wine, so I substituted rice vinegar. I didn’t have scallion so substituted onion. And I didn’t have cayenne pepper so I substituted paprika. But it turned out really well! The last time I had made chicken meatball patties, from a different recipe, they turned up dry and disappointing, but these are moist and delicious. Thank you!
can these be air fried? If yes how long?
You can try.