All-American Turkey Burgers 

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Serves: 4 person(s)

Preparation Time: 10 mins
Cooking Time: 10 mins

Yield: 4 x patties

The All-American burger - the quarter pounder made-over turkey-style!
Per serving: 379 calories, 10.9 g fat and 2.4 g saturated fat.
Saves: 136 calories, 25.1 g fat and 10.9 g saturated fat!

Suggestions:

To help prevent burgers from sticking: prior to heating the grill/barbecue, coat the cooled grill grate with cooking spray. Then turn on the heat.

Ingredients:

The traditional quarter-pounder hamburger is high on calories, fat, saturated fat, and cholesterol. This turkey burger recipe is transformed to lower calorie and lower fat by replacing the traditional regular high fat ground beef with lean ground turkey. For added interest, garnishing vegetables top these patties, adding more nutrition and flavor.

To learn more about recipe makeovers see CalorieKing's library article "Smart Substitutes: Your Guide to Low-Calorie Cooking Alternatives".

Recipe Makeover
1 lb lean ground turkey (90% lean) 1/2 cup chopped onion 1 clove garlic, minced 1/4 cup ketchup 1/8 tsp black pepper 4 kaiser rolls, sliced 4 leaves lettuce 4 slices red ripe tomato 4 thin slices onion

Traditional Recipe
4 ground beef patties (1 pound) 1/4 tsp each salt and black pepper, or to taste 1/4 cup ketchup 4 hamburger buns 1/2 cup pickle slices

Directions:

Preheat charcoal grill for direct-heat cooking.

In medium-size bowl combine turkey, onion, garlic, ketchup and pepper. Evenly divide turkey mixture into 4 burgers, approximately 3-1/2 inches in diameter.

Grill turkey burgers 5 to 6 minutes per side until 165ºF is reached on food thermometer and turkey is no longer pink in center.

To serve, place each turkey burger on bottom half of kaiser roll and top with lettuce, tomato, onion and top half of roll.

Author:

National Turkey Federation
National Turkey Fed.