Fiery Chicken Cheeseburgers with Soothing Ranch Sauce

For the burgers, combine the chicken, onion, bread crumbs, jalapeno, egg, garlic, salt, pepper and 2 tablespoons hot pepper sauce; mix well. If you find the mixture to be really wet, add a little more bread crumbs.

Shape the chicken mixture into 4 patties. This is a pretty moist mixture and it helps when forming them to very lightly wet your hands so the chicken doesn’t stick to them quite as much.

Place the burgers on a dish, cover and chill the burgers for at least 2 hours. This helps them stay together.

While the burgers are chilling, make the sauce: Stir together the sour cream, ranch dressing, mayonnaise, parsley and celery seed until well mixed. Cover and chill until ready to serve.

Place the burgers in a nonstick skillet lightly sprayed with nonstick cooking spray. Brown the burgers on both sides over medium heat. Cover the pan and cook the burgers for about 8-10 minutes or until cooked through, flipping the burgers occasionally and basting them with the remaining 1/3 cup of hot sauce during the last 2 minutes of cooking time.

Top each burger with 1 slice of cheese, cover pan and cook until the cheese melts, 1-2 minutes.

Serve burgers on buns with cheese, lettuce, tomato, bacon and a heaping tablespoon of the ranch sauce.

Adapted from allrecipes.com