Wondering How To Make Your FROZEN TURKEY BURGER Rock? Read This!
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Can something as simple as a frozen turkey burger really taste amazing, AND save you money, AND help you eat healthier? The answer is a resounding: YES!
Stretch Your Dollar By Making It Homemade
Ditch the premade, storebought, can’t-pronounce-the-ingredients patties!
Convenience just isn’t worth the price of mediocre food.
When you learn to stock up on pantry staples, shop in bulk for meat, and roll up your sleeves to meal prep a big batch, you’ll begin to see the savings add up fast!
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Improve Flavor and Home-make it Healthy!
Making your own food at home gives you full control over the flavor and ingredients of your food.
You can easily avoid all the added sugars, preservatives, sodium, and harmful dyes.
Start With An Easy and Delicious Recipe
The recipe at the end of this post is one of my family’s favorite summer staples! We always have these frozen turkey burgers on hand in the freezer, ready to thaw at a moment’s notice.
Some days, life gets in the way of my cooking plans, and these are quick to thaw and grill up, saving the day when I’m pressed for time.
If company drops by, these are always a guaranteed crowd-pleaser, and an easy pivot from our meal plan for 4.
And some days the weather is just perfect for grilling out and having a backyard picnic!
Health It Up and Stretch It Further
These healthful additions not only jazz up the flavor profile of your frozen turkey burgers, they bulk up your mix so you can make more patties!
Try one or more of these awesome add-ins:
- Spinach: add 1 cup of baby spinach leaves, finely chopped
- Mushrooms: add 4 oz of mushroom stems and pieces, drained and minced
- Cauliflower: add 1 cup of fresh cauliflower florets, finely diced
- Quinoa: add 1/2 cup of cooked quinoa (this Roland Mediterranean flavor is my fave!)
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Hack! Add a Dent for a More Even Cook & Quicker Thaw
This happy kitchen hack is an important step before freezing or cooking your frozen turkey burgers!
Once shaped into a round patty, use your thumb to press an indentation into the center on one side.
This helps the turkey burger retain its shape instead of shrinking while cooking.
It also speeds thawing, and ensures that the center is fully thawed before cooking.
Freeze The Extras for Future Easy Meals
Unless you’re feeding an army on the spot (we won’t judge!) this recipe is going to make more burger patties than you can eat right away. In fact, with the ingredients below, you’ll be making 12-16 turkey burger patties.
You could grill them all up right away and stash the leftovers in the fridge for about a week.
Or you could just cook up the ones you need for now and save the rest to cook up to 6 months later!
To get perfectly uniform, evenly weighted, quarter-pound frozen turkey burgers every time, you’ve gotta try this!
The Burger Master Innovative 8 in 1 Burger Press and Freezer Container
Save time by pressing 8 burgers at once! Freeze right in the silicone mold for easy removal one at a time.
If you make this recipe and love it, be sure to share a pic and tag me (@TheHackyHomemaker) on social media!
Tasty Homemade Turkey Burgers
Ingredients
- 3 lbs lean ground turkey
- 1/4 cup Italian-seasoned bread crumbs
- 1/4 cup onion finely diced
- 1/4 cup fresh parsley chopped
- 1 clove garlic minced
- 1 tsp salt
- 1/4 tsp black pepper
- 1/2 tsp dill weed dried
- 1 egg white beaten
- 1 egg beaten
Optional additions:
- 1 cup baby spinach leaves finely chopped
- 4 oz mushroom pieces and stems drained and finely chopped
- 1/2 cup cauliflower finely chopped
- 1/2 cup cooked quinoa
Instructions
- In a large bowl, mix together the ground turkey, breadcrumbs, onion, parsley, garlic, dill, salt and pepper.
- Add any (or all) additional options, such as spinach, mushrooms, cauliflower, or quinoa.
- Fold in the beaten egg and egg white until fully incorporated.
- Separate mixture into 12 even portions, between 1/4-1/2 lb each.
- Form each portion into a round, disc-shaped patty. Using your thumb, press a 1" diameter dent into the center of the patty.
- Cook or grill over medium-high heat, to an internal temperature of 180°.
- Serve on buns or lettuce wraps, topped with all your favorite condiments. Enjoy!
We use Turkey instead of beef a great deal in our home. I’ll be trying this out.
Vivian,
That’s wonderful to hear! Glad you liked the hacks. 🙂 Be sure to take a picture when you’re done and let us know how it turned out!