Happy New Year Ya'll! The new year brings new goals and a fresh start. Raise your hand if your 2016 resolution is to eat healthier. If your hand is up, you are not alone. Staying healthy isn't easy. Sometimes you just need a good burger, ya feel me?
Have no fear, I have the World's Best Turkey Burger recipe to help you ease your way into a healthier lifestyle. It's delicious, hearty, healthy and most importantly it leaves me feeling full and satisfied. This recipe is 21 day fix approved and as an added bonus, it's a great way to sneak in extra veggies for your kiddos. F YA!
These turkey burgers are a real crowd pleaser. I could literally eat them every day and never get sick of them. I make this recipe once a week for my family, no joke. All my friends make this recipe for their families as well. Our husbands joke they that they thought the 21 day fix program was just this recipe because we eat it so often. They are that damn good. I eat them on a whole wheat bun, without a bun, over a salad, with tzatziki and cucumbers, with ketchup or mustard, you name it, it still tastes delicious.
Go ahead try it. I dare you not to like it.
Ingredients
- 1 lb. ground turkey
- 6 halves sun dried tomatoes (chopped)
- 1/2 medium red onion
- 1 cup of fresh spinach
- ¼ cup crumbled feta
- 1 tsp dried oregano
- ½ tsp minced garlic
- ⅓ cup wheat bread crumbs
- 1 egg white
- sea salt and pepper to taste
- ½ chopped red pepper
- Option to add ½ cup grated and squeezed zucchini
Instructions:
Roughly chop the spinach, sun dried tomatoes, onion, and red pepper.
Grate zucchini in a bowl. Squeeze out all excess moister from zucchini. In a bowl combine the ground turkey with the zucchini spinach, sun dried tomatoes, red onion, feta, ½ tsp minced garlic, dried oregano, egg whites, bread crumbs, ½ tsp of sea salt and some freshly ground pepper. Stir everything until it is evenly combined. Shape the mixture into six patties.
Cook the burgers on a counter top grill, a non-stick skillet or over open flame. Serve with Tzatziki and cucumber or any toppings you desire.
For 21 day Fixers I count 1 patty as 1 Red, 1/4 Green, 1/2 blue
- Some images and this recipe were adapted from holymolymeohmy.com