Chicken Burgers...with a kick

This was tonight's experiment.  I made my own garam masala following the recipe I learned from Alton Brown (the recipe is at the bottom of this recipe link), and I ground my own chicken.  The flavors are surprisingly complimentary, but I'll confess I got a little carried away with the sauces so when we took a bite of the burgers they nearly shot across the table leaving us with empty, saucy buns.  Okay, not really, but very close.

The kids weren't so keen on the burgers.  The garam masala comes with a bit of a kick making the burgers spicy.  Sometimes these experiments will work well with the kids and sometimes not.  Today was a predictably "not" day because they're both pretty warn out from a run-a-thon they participated in, and they weren't particularly hungry to begin with.

All-in-all, the flavors are good and it was a nice change of pace from beef burgers, grilled chicken, or turkey burgers.  I'm not sure they rise to the level of "favorite", but we'll probably have them again some time.