Now that I’m back on the clean eating wagon, I’ve been in search of healthy, low-cal recipes that actually taste like something, and damn, these healthy turkey burgers really fit the bill. I usually eat them for lunch with a small container of Fage 0% Greek yogurt drizzled with hot sauce and a bunch of grape tomatoes, baby carrots and snap peas. You can also eat them as a quick snack.
They are:
- spicy
- flavorful
- moist (apologies to those of you who hate that word, but they are, dammit!)
- low fat and low calorie
- full of lean protein
Healthy really can be tasty! Of course, nachos still taste better, but these are pretty good.
Spicy Baked Turkey Burgers
Ingredients
- -3 lbs. of 93/7 lean ground turkey
- -1 cup of plain greek yogurt
- -1/2 cup diced white onion
- -1/2 cup of petite sweet peppers red, yellow, orange
- -2 Tablespoons of your favorite hot sauce
- -1 Tablespoon of minced garlic
- -1 teaspoon of fennel seeds
- -2 teaspoons of red pepper flakes
- -pepper to taste
Instructions
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Preheat your oven to 375 degrees Fahrenheit
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Add ground turkey, along with all other ingredients, to a large bowl.
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Mix ingredients well with your hands and roll into patties.
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Place patties on a foil-lined baking sheet and bake the patties in shifts for 20 minutes. I can usually fit 15 patties on a sheet at one time, so I bake two rounds of mini-patties
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Once patties are out of the oven, heat a large skillet over medium high heat and sear them on each side for 2 minutes.
Recipe Notes
- This recipe makes about 30 mini-burgers or around 15 regular sized patties.
- If you don't like spicy foods feel free to omit the hot sauce and red pepper flakes or reduce the amount of hot sauce from 2 tablespoons to 1.
- Feel free to skip the last step if you're short on time. It takes a little more fat off the burgers and give them a nice sear, but I've skipped it before and they still taste great.
Enjoy these burgers, and if you have a favorite low-cal, healthy recipe, please leave me the recipe in the comments!
♥ Erin
