Hey barbecue fans! I'm delighted to be back for my fifth year of sharing outdoor cooking tips and recipes on The World Today with Jon McComb on Vancouver's CKNW radio. 
Today's topic: chicken. Specifically, delicious British Columbia chicken. For the past few weeks I've been working with the BC Chicken Farmers Association to support a fun and informative social media campaign, Chicken Squad: The Real Chicken Farmers of BC. If you haven't seen the video trailer, watch it and all the episodes of the web series here. 
The public awareness campaign is a lot of fun, but the message is serious: chicken raised in BC has been free of steroids and hormones for 50 years, despite the common perception that the long-banned substances are used today. If you eat BC chicken you know it's been fed well and humanely raised by farmers who care.
If you know me, you know I LOVE chicken. I developed a new recipe for the big Chicken Squad movie trailer premiere a couple of weeks ago, and I'm sharing it here, along with another of my favourite chicken recipes. Enjoy...and get out there and get grilling!
Jerusalem Sliders with Sour Cream and Sumac Sauce
This is my adaptation for the grill of a superb recipe from the superb cookbook Jerusalem, by famed restaurateurs Yotam Ottolenghi and Sami Tamimi. My thanks to blogger Marc Smith for documenting the Chicken Squad event and sharing his photo. 
For the burgers:
1 pound (300g) ground chicken 1 large zucchini, coarsley grated (scant 2 cups/200g) 3 green onions, thinly sliced 1 large free-range egg 2 tablespoons chopped mint 2 tablespoons chopped cilantro 2 garlic cloves, crushed 1 teaspoon ground cumin 1 teaspoon salt 1/2 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper 1/2 teaspoon cayenne pepper
½ to 1 cup dry bread crumbs
Olive oil
Soft fresh slider buns
For the Sour Cream & Sumac Sauce: Scant 1/2 cup (100g) sour cream Scant 2/3 cup (150g) Greek yogurt 1 teaspoon grated lemon zest 1 tablespoon freshly squeezed lemon juice 1 small garlic clove, crushed 1 1/2 tablespoon olive oil 1 tablespoon sumac 1/2 teaspoon salt 1/4 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper
For garnish: thin slices of fresh tomato
Prepare the sour cream sauce by combining all the ingredients in a bowl. Cover and store in your refrigerator until you’re ready to use it.
Place the grated zucchini in a clean dry dish towel and wrap it tightly, twisting the towel to squeeze as much of the moisture out of the zucchini as possible. Place the zucchini and rest of the slider ingredients, except the olive oil, in a large bowl. Using your hands, mix everything together until it’s the right consistency for making burgers. Add extra bread crumbs if it’s too wet to handle. 
Place a piece of parchment paper on a cookie sheet. Starting with a portion about the size of a mandarin orange, form the slider patties, dipping your hands in a bowl of cold water to help keep the mixture from sticking. Place the patties onto the cookie sheet and transfer to your freezer for about an hour to firm up the meat.
Prepare your grill for medium direct cooking. Thoroughly scrape the cooking grate. Remove the burger patties from the freezer. Paint a light coating of olive oil on one side of the patties and place them, oiled side down, on the grill. Let the burgers cook on one side until they are firm and they release easily from the cooking grate, then turn them. (If you turn them too early, they’ll stick you’ll leave a lot of meat on the grill.)
Cook the burgers to an internal temperature of 160F.  Serve them immediately on slider buns with a generous dollop of the sauce, topped with tomato slices.
 
Grilled Achiote Chicken Breasts with Mixed Green Salad
Makes 4–6 servings
Achiote is a rust-colored paste made from annatto seeds that is a common ingredient in Mexican cooking. You can find it in Latin grocery stores and gourmet specialty food stores. It adds an unusual and distinctive flavour and wonderful color to grilled food, and is fantastic with chic