Thai Inspired Turkey Burgers (low fat)
Because I have to write down everything I eat I decided to try to channel the obsession into something a bit creative and start attempting to make up healthy recipes and share them. I post them over on Recipezaar (great place for recipes) but figured folks here might be open to sharing the lower fat/ healthier recipes they have created.
Fridays are a nightmare for me diet wise. I can go all week with being really good and then my partner will come home and really want something junkie. He is very supportive of my weight loss efforts and will happily eat my veggie bean curries and like all week without complaint. So, a few weeks ago I decided to try to make Friday nights a bit of a treat night where I try out a different kind of low fat/ reduced fat burger in an attempt to give us a bit of a junk food feeling but not break the diet too much.
I will be trying out a new burger invention tomorrow night but this is the one we had last Friday night.
Thai Inspired Turkey Burgers
Ingredients:
1 1/2 tablespoons fresh lemongrass, chopped up
2 garlic cloves
1 tablespoon fresh ginger, chopped
1/3 cup green onion, roughly chopped
1/2 cup fresh cilantro, roughly chopped
1/2 teaspoon red chili pepper flakes
1 lime, zest of, only
2 tablespoons water
1 lb lean ground turkey
1 egg white
Preparation:
Put the lemongrass, garlic, ginger, green onions, cilantro, chili flakes and lime zest into a food processor or chopper along with the water and blitz them until they are finely chopped and combined.
Add the mixture to the turkey and also put in the egg white.
Mix the turkey and the other ingredients together by hand until they are well combined.
Put into the fridge to chill for about 30 minutes for them to firm up a bit.
Take out of the fridge and shape into four equal sized burger patties.
Then either fry them off in a pan as you would normally do or do as I do and brush them very lightly with a bit of extra virgin olive oil and cook them on a Foreman type grill. It takes about 8 minutes or so for them to be fully cooked.
Serve.
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Sounds totally yummy, can’t wait to try it!
By the way, you are a real inspiration! I read your profile and it was amazing what you’ve been through, and I’m so happy for your hard work paying off as it has.
Those sure do sound good! I love ginger and lemongrass in recipes!
Thank you, I don’t do hot and spicy very well so I try to do things that pack their punch with flavour rather than spice and I think that worked with these. Trust me, I fail plenty too..lol
Celebrating, thank you very much. It is odd to hear that because I feel so ‘not there’ yet but I think sometimes we can be too harsh on ourselves. So, thank you again.
