Asian Turkey Burgers

The last time I went to Costo I bought a crapton of ground turkey.

Apparently I thought there was going to be a turkey shortage or something.

Needless to say, we were tired of turkey.  Turkey Tired I Say!

That's OK though.  It forced me to get creative.

I threw that plain old ground turkey in a bowl and added some new friends.  Mint.  Green Onion.  Cilantro.  Jalepeno.  Ginger.  Sesame Oil.  Soy Sauce.  Garlic.  And one old friend - ripped up bread to hold those patties together.

The end result was a new and tasty turkey creation!

We enjoyed these over wild rice, topped with Sriracha and sliced avocado, but they'd be good on a bun too!

Recipe as follows....enjoy friends!

Ingredients:

1/2 lb. ground turkey (I'm usually cooking for 2 1/2, so a half a package works for us, if you have a bigger family you can double this recipe up, or make extra patties to freeze)

1/4 cup chopped mint

4 green onions, sliced

1/2 cup chopped cilantro

1 tsp. diced jalepeno

1 1/2 tbsp. fresh ginger, minced or squished in a garlic press

1 tbsp. sesame oil

1/4 cup soy sauce (I use low sodium, always)

1 piece of sandwich bread ripped up into small pieces

1 clove of garlic, minced

1/2 sliced California avocado 

How to:

Put all of the ingredients into a bowl and mash together with your clean hands.  

Form patties, the recipe above will yield 2 big patties or 2 regular sized patties plus one small kid sized patty.  The patties will be very wet.  I usually make a ball with the meet then toss it down onto a piece of parchment paper to flatten out, then do patty formation.

Cook in a frying pan (or a grill pan) at a medium heat until cooked through.  A good tip is to wait to flip until you see that the sides are starting to show as "done".

Top with sliced avocado.

Enjoy!

You can also find this at Tasty Kitchen!

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Recipe Find - Spinach Feta Turkey Burgers

I've had this on my list of "need to make" for a long time.  They are tasty, easy and dee-lish!

They are Eat Live Run's Spinach Feta Turkey Burgers!

Brought to you by my iPhone!

(The camera ran out of batteries at the exact moment The Cyclist & The Munchkin were chopping down our tree.  Fail.)

You will take some frozen spinach & thaw it out...

1lb of ground turkey.....

Some Feta cheese (Yum!)...

A slightly beaten egg....

(nice photo. not.)

...and throw them all together...

and moosh them up....

...and make some of these...

Check out those patty skilz.  

The Cyclist is the usual patty-maker, but he was not available.

Can you tell I'm proud of myself?

He didn't even re-do it when he got home.

You're going to grill that patty up...

and while it's cooking you can cut up your fixin's....

And Viola!  A super tasty dinner treat!

The whole recipe can be found here.

Here is a photo of the official finished product as made by Eat Live Run:

Photo:  Eat Live Run

ENJOY!

By the way.

My posting skilz are apparently not as good as my patty skilz lately.

Can I blame it on my dead camera?

I have been hammering away my Ironman AZ photos...Ironmom deserves nothing but the best!

So, be looking for Ironman AZ, Disappearing Pumpkin Cookie Chews & more, soon!

Tasty Turkey Taco Towers

Alright.  To start, I promise all of my recipe's won't have foods that all begin with the same letter (remember Penne Portabella and Prosciutto?).  I'm sorry, I just couldn't help it.

As a kid, taco night was my favorite.  Now, I tend to make taco's with ground turkey instead of ground beef, just to keep them a bit healthier.

Let's meet the suspects:

1/2 pound ground turkey, your tortilla of choice, black beans, red onion, avocado, bell pepper (any color will do), salt & pepper, chili powder, ground cayenne pepper, red pepper flakes, salsa of your choice and:

Oh yeah, and the most important ingredient:

CHEESE!

I should just go ahead and admit now that I'm a little bit Urkel-ish when it comes to cheese.

Being allergic to dairy until I was about 10 created an abnormal love of cheese; proof that absence makes the heart grow fonder.

OK!  Moving on to Tasty Turkey Taco Towers.  When I pulled out what I needed to make this I realized I was out of taco seasoning.  Normally I would use a store bought low-sodium seasoning packet.  But, I was out, so I mocked up my own seasoning using the chili powder, ground cayenne pepper, red pepper flakes, salt & pepper and (oh yeah) garlic salt.  I actually liked it better than the packet.

Start off by browning the turkey meat....

....turkey meat normally produces very little grease (like almost none), so I don't typically drain anything from the pan.  Also, we only use 1/2 of a 1 pound package - we usually can't finish the left-overs if we cook it all, so splitting it gives us two meals. 

Once the turkey is getting brown, throw in some chopped red onion....

...after I added the onion, I started my made up seasoning.  I added about 5 shakes of each spice, 2-3 turns on the salt grinder, 3-5 turns on the pepper grinder & about two shakes of garlic salt....

 ...stir it up and add in some chopped bell pepper....

...and also, drain the can of black beans and add them in....

--(I forgot to take a photo so please insert your imagination here)--

Now, tower time.

Heat a non-stick pan and don't grease it with anything, just get it hot.

Put in your first tortilla and put some shredded cheese on top...

...on top of the first layer of cheese, add some of the meat mixture and some sliced avocado, then more cheese!

Then put tortilla number 2 on top and repeat.  At the end your stack should have 3 tortilla's...

...let it heat for a bit, then flip it & let it heat some more....

take it out and top it with, of course, more cheese, some sliced avocado and salsa...

....Viola!

We have never made the tower format before, we usually do just regular old taco's, but Mr. O and I came up with this on the fly.  It was good and the presentation was more interesting than plain old tacos.

I've posted the whole recipe on Tasty Kitchen - Tasty Turkey Taco Towers

Before I go, a note about the tortillas....

I found these tasty tortillas at Trader Joe's (LOVE Trader Joe's) recently.  They are super good!  Even plain (without cheese!).