Horizontally slice the chicken breast into thin slices and pop in a pan (or on the barbecue) with bacon and a drizzle of olive oil, salt and pepper.

Toast the bun halves and top with cheese and pop under the grill to melt.

Prepare your salad ingredients. I didn’t want to overload the salad ingredients or else I wouldn’t be able to get my mouth around the burger (I had enough trouble as it was) so I opted for just lettuce, tomato and avocado.

Top the burger bun half with the grilled chicken and bacon then top with the salad. I spread the top burger bun with a little mayo and smothered the chicken and bacon with barbecue sauce.

These were good and so, so filling. Dinner that night was only very light. It’s nice to be able to prepare something like this on the odd occasion, when you’ve got the time to enjoy it without interruption. It saves you running to the takeaway for a burger which I never do anyway. If I had to make these with the kids around one would have just cheese and the other would probably just have chicken, bacon and cheese. Sometimes I feel my kitchen is like a fast food joint and I’m a short order cook, taking everyone’s orders. That’s why I save meals like this when they’re not around.

Grilled Chicken, Bacon & Avocado Burger

• chicken breast, sliced thinly horizontally
• bacon
• olive oil for frying
• cheese
• burger buns
• lettuce
• tomato
• avocado
• mayo
• barbecue sauce (or sauce of your liking)

1. Fry chicken breast and bacon in a little olive oil with salt and pepper.
2. Split burger buns, toast and top one half with cheese and melt.
3. Assemble burger with bun half which was topped with cheese, then chicken, bacon, sauce, lettuce, tomato and avocado with the top half of the bun spread with mayo.