Last night I had a couple of girlfriends over for drinks, food and relaxing conversation. We had a great time and I prepared a very simple meal: Turkey burgers and salad. As simple as it may seem to me, not everyone knows how to make a really tasty burger, so I'll share with you what disappeared from my table, even though there was plenty of other stuff to eat (such as hot dogs with fancy buns).
Today's Find: Ground Turkey meat (sometimes found frozen in tubes in the grocery store)
Turkey Burgers
1 pound ground turkey meat
1 chopped onion
1 tbsp minced garlic
salt (I estimated this; probably around a teaspoon or two)
Mrs. Dash Table blend (also estimated)
Olive oil (varies)
Mix it all together in a large bowl. Some people like to use their hands to get it all mixed up. I prefer to use a spoon. You can form your patties by hand or, as I do, scoop out 1/3 cup measuring cups of it and squish it down after it's in the pan. Put enough olive oil in the pan to help keep the burgers from sticking. Unfortunately, when it comes to turkey meat of any kind, there's no way to prevent all sticking. It's going to stick to your pan. Your job is to try to minimize the sticking by keep oil in the bottom of the pan and scraping up your burgers occasionally. Flip burgers consistently until when you push down on them with your spatula the juice coming out is just clear, bubbly juice. It should be very hot in the middle. Sometimes I cut one in half just to make sure there's no pink in there. I don't think a rare turkey burger would be a good idea. I was able to get about eight burgers out of this.
I served my turkey burgers with a salad of romaine lettuce, tomatoes, cucumbers, broccoli and strawberry slices, topped off with my own balsamic vinaigrette dressing. It was delicious and healthy, and everyone loved it.
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