Getting Closer To Our Food: Loose Meat Turkey Burgers

This holiday season, Viva is all about encouraging families to get closer to their food by ditching the silverware and eating food with your hands. We surely eat a lot of foods that require using our hands, so this “challenge” was a peace of cake. One of our favorite foods to eat with our hands are homemade burgers. There’s nothing like a good ‘ol homemade burger with all of the fixins. My turkey burgers are made with ground turkey, caramelized onions, lettuce, pepperjack or American cheese and condiments of our choice. I like to top mine with ketchup and relish, Boogie eats whatever I like, and Greg likes mayo.

This week, I decided to do something a little different to take my usual homemade turkey burgers to another level. Instead of making burger patties, I made loose meat and ditched forgot the caramelized onions. Loose meat burgers are perfect for those times when you want a burger, but the meat is still frozen. They are messier, but so are sloppy joes. If you can survive a sloppy joe, then you can certainly survive a loose meat turkey burger.

This recipe makes about 5-6 burgers to be served on regular toasted sandwich bread.

1 1/2 lbs ground turkey
4 chopped green onions
1 tsp black pepper
1 tsp garlic powder
1 tsp seasoning salt
1 tbs vegetable oil

Brown ground turkey. Add green onions and spices when turkey is halfway brown. Drain when fully cooked and add vegetable oil. Continue cooking until meat starts to crisp. Serve on toasted sandwich bread (or buns) with your favorite toppings!

Finger licking good?

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