Healthy Eating: Turkey Burgers

I have spent my Saturday, thus far, at estate says and consignment shops with my mom. I found a great project that I will be blogging about in a few weeks! I'm pretty excited about it, so, stay tuned! Anyway, on to today's post...

In my quest to not eat out as much, I have been searching for easy recipes that are really good... This turkey burger recipe is no exception.

Nate and I went shopping at Target for the ingredients and then came home and starting chopping the onions and the spinach. I am super sensitive to onions, so, I gave that job to Nate. Before he started chopping, he disappeared into the other room and came out wearing his scientist goggles... At first, I thought, "why?" And, then I realized he was trying to combat the powerful force that onions have that make your eyes water by wearing the goggles.

 

I told him I didn't think that would work. I thought just breathing in the onion smell would still make his eyes water. Turns out, the goggles did work, and Nate did not shed a tear. Once we were both done chopping, we put all of our burger ingredients in a large bowl and starting mixing. Of course, we had to pause so I could take a few pictures to document the process.

Then we got are hands dirty, and formed 6 patties to cook on Nate's George Foreman Grill. We ended up making the burger patties a few hours before we wanted to eat dinner, so we wrapped them in some saran wrap, froze 3 patties, and put the other 3 in the fridge to cook a few hours later. 

Healthy Turkey Burger Recipe

Printable Recipe

Sauce Ingredients:

6 oz. plain greek yogurt 

1 fresh lemon

¼ tsp minced garlic

¼ tsp dried dill

Burger Ingredients:

1.00 lb. ground turkey

1 can diced tomatoes (drained)

1 red onion

2 oz. fresh or frozen spinach (I used fresh)

¼ cup crumbled feta

1 tsp dried oregano

½ tsp minced garlic

1 egg

salt and pepper to taste

6 hamburger buns

Instructions:

Yogurt Sauce: Combine the yogurt, ¼ tsp minced garlic, dry dill, juice of half the lemon and a pinch of salt. Stir and then refrigerate while making the burgers.

Burgers: Roughly chop the spinach to prevent stringy pieces. Also chop ¼ of the red onion. In a bowl mix together the ground turkey with the spinach, diced tomatoes, red onion, feta, ½ tsp minced garlic, dried oregano, egg, and salt pepper. Stir everything until it is evenly mixed together. Form the mixture into six burger patties. Cook the burgers on a counter top grill (I used a George Foreman Grill). Serve on thin, whole wheat bun, and spread desired amount of yogurt sauce on warm turkey burger patty.

Recipe modified from Go Be Lovely

The yogurt sauce was my favorite part of this meal. It added a sweet and tangy taste to the sandwich that was both unexpected and absolutely delightful. I hope you find time in your busy fall schedule to make this yummy treat. Please, let me know what you think and let me know if you have any questions! A crafty post is on the docket for the blog next!

~Em