Broil: 15 minutes
Serves: 5
Ingredients
1 egg, lightly beaten
1/4 cup salsa flavored chips or plain tortilla chips
3 Tbsp. canned green chiles
3/4 tsp. chili powder
1/4 tsp. pepper
1 lb. ground turkey
2 oz. pepper jack cheese
5 sandwich thins toasted
1 avocado sliced
4 lettuce leaves
2 Tbsp. cilantro
1/4 cup salsa
Directions
Preheat broiler (I was able to use the broiler function on my toaster over and it worked perfectly without heating up my whole house). In a medium bowl, stir together egg, chips, green chiles, chili powder, and pepper. Add turkey and mix well. Shape mixture into 5 patties. Place patties on unheated rack of broiler pan. Broil 4-5 inches from heat for 15 minutes (or until no longer pink and internal temperature reaches 165 F) turning once halfway through. Top burgers with cheese and broil 1 minute longer. Serve on toasted sandwich thins with avocado, lettuce, cilantro, and salsa.
Nutritional Facts (Per sandwich)
470 calories
Recipe adapted from: New Cook Book Bridal Edition
When Amanda let me know we were having turkey burgers for dinner, I immediately slumped down and began to pout. She went on to promise me that we will have real beef burgers soon to make it up to me.
ReplyDeleteI'm happy to say that my ignorance was about as large as these burgers were tasty. I would gladly trade in any beef burger I've ever made for these delicious south west turkey burgers. The flavors were so bold that the chipotle salsa was a great addition, but by no means necessary. I would alternate bites with and without salsa and three burgers later I was a happy, stuffed camper.
I realize that eating three turkey burgers kind of wipes away the point of making them with turkey in the first place, but I'm sure it was better than eating three fatty beef burgers.
And Amanda, seems like I'm the one that owes you, because dinner was fantastic.