Hey Pesto
The chicken burger with the most going on: chargrilled British chicken breast with crispy bacon, mature Cheddar, basil pesto, basil mayo, relish and salad. Grilled rather than fried, so it is lighter than most chicken burgers, and the double basil makes it taste fresh. Both basil sauces contain nuts.
The story
Pesto is the sauce of Genoa. Its name comes from the Genoese verb pestâ, to pound, because it was made by crushing garlic, pine nuts, basil, hard cheese and olive oil in a marble mortar with a wooden pestle. The first written recipe appeared in 1863, in Giovanni Battista Ratto’s cookbook La Cuciniera Genovese. GBK’s chicken burger puts it to work as a spread, with basil mayo, bacon and mature Cheddar.
What’s inside
- chargrilled chicken breast
- crispy bacon
- mature Cheddar
- basil pesto
- basil mayo
- relish
- salad
- bun
Make it at home
There is no copycat of the Hey Pesto yet. Until there is, these recipes on the site come closest to it, judged by what goes into the bun.
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About Gourmet Burger Kitchen
Gourmet Burger Kitchen opened in Battersea, south London, in 2001. It was started by three New Zealanders, Adam Wills, Greg Driscoll and Brandon Allen, with the New Zealand-born chef Peter Gordon shaping the menu, and it is credited with bringing the idea of a “gourmet burger” to London a decade before the city’s burger boom. A light Kiwi theme still runs through the restaurants, most obviously in the Kiwiburger.
Around ten restaurants after the 2020 restructuring, run from Birmingham by the Boparan Restaurant Group.
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