Mexican Grilled Turkey Burger Recipe

Turkey is such an underrated meat and most of go from one year to the next only having it once or twice and typically as a roast at Thanksgiving or Christmas.

Not exactly expensive, it's also a very lean meat, not much fat so presenting you with what you might call a “healthy burger” just go easy on the soured cream and guacamole.

In this recipe the refried beans really help bind everything together and for simplicity, I've used pickled Jalapeno from a jar and chopped them but you can use fresh if they're readily available. 1 or 2 chilis should do the trick but feel free to add more if you like it hotter. Note that there's no egg yolk in this mix, the refried beans do the job that the egg yolk would.

There's enough here to make four quarter pounders and then some.

Serves:- 4 people

Preparation Time:- 15 minutes
Cooking Time:- 15 minutes

Total Time:- 30 minutes

Ingredients:-

• 450g or 1lb ground turkey
• 200g or 7oz can of refried beans
• 3 crushed garlic cloves
• 1 tablespoon Jalapeno chilis chopped
• 2 tablespoons tomato purée
• 1 handful of fresh coriander (cilantro), chopped
• Olive oil
• Salt and pepper

For serving:-

• 4 burger buns
• Soured cream
• Guacamole
• Shredded lettuce

Method:-

Place your ground turkey mince in a mixing bowl. Open the can of refried beans and gently mash with the back of a fork to ensure that you've got a good paste. Now add the beans, chilis, tomato puree and coriander, get your hands in there and give it a good mulch around to thoroughly mix everything and make sure that there are no lumps.

Form the mix into 4 patties remembering to keep them thin and just that little bit thinner still in the center. This will ensure that your burgers stay burger shaped rather than turning out like meat balls.

You can either brush your grill with the oil or brush the burgers, (either way will stop them from sticking to the cooking grate) and cook the burgers for 6 or 7 minutes on each side over hot coals.

To serve, just do it as you would any other burger on a bed of shredded lettuce but in this case topped with soured cream and guacamole. Maybe a few tortilla chips as a side?

See Also:-

Indian Grilled Turkey Burgers
Smoked Turkey
Barbecue Turkey Breast Recipes
Tandoori Grilled Turkey Breast
More Barbecue Turkey Recipes