Turkey-Turkey Burgers

I'd like to start off by saying that I'm a fan of red meat - however, I'm a fan of low cholesterol and with a strong maternal family history of heart disease, I'm always looking for ways to keep my 'chances' down, if not eliminate them (genomics! get on it!). Either way, last night I was looking in the fridge and the only dethawed meat we had was lean turkey. What to do? What to do? TURKEY BURGERS!

Here is an awesome, healthy-non-healthy Turkey Burger recipe for you. What you need:

• lean turkey, 
• turkey bacon, 
• onions, garlic, 
• low-fat cheese, 
• salt, pepper
• steak seasoning

Also include the following:

• Guacamole (see the recipe in Here)
• Broccoli
• Tomatoes
• Mustard & Ketchup
• Spinach Leaves

Step 1: Start off by cooking your turkey bacon. Use a non-stick pan, please, for your own sake. Make sure you crisp the turkey out of the turkey if you know what I mean. Take all your turkey bacon, put them on paper towels and let them sit for a bit. Once they've cooled off, crunch them up - make them into tiny little pieces. Use a knife or put them in a baggie and smash.

Steps 2-4: In between your bacon cooling and making the burgers, cut up onions into fine pieces. If you don't use the garlic out of the can that's pre-smashed, smash up some garlic. Put your onion, garlic, cheese and bacon into four separate piles so you can pick out of them.

Steps 5-6: Take your turkey and throw in the pepper salt and steak seasoning: mix it all up. Use your hands here. Gloves are a nice option if you don't want your hands covered in turkey. Take a hand full, or what you think would be a small/medium size burger, and flatten out. Put turkey bacon bits, chopped onions, chopped garlic and as much or little low-fat cheese as out want. Then turn into a pattie! Set on plate.

Step 7 (Optional): If you want, you can lightly cover these in Smart Balance butter if you want a little bit more juiciness involved, but they taste great without it.

Step 6: Place your patties on a warm skillet pan, cover with lid for the first few minutes (until it looks like the top is also cooked). Keep the temp on medium and cook those burgers!


Last Steps: These burgers go great by themselves, or with buns. Add sliced tomato and guacamole (find the recipe from before) and you've got yourself a VERY TASTY, delicious and healthier than beef-burger.

In addition, we used Broccoli as our side dish. Broccoli is filled with minerals and vitamins that help dilate and strengthen your blood vessels. It's really healthy, and really tasty. 

Enjoy!!!