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Turkey burgers on sweet potato buns
Juicy seasoned turkey burgers, kept moist with a little grated zucchini, stacked between thick rounds of roasted sweet potato with lettuce, tomato, red onion and mashed avocado. Soft, sweet and savory all at once: a two-round stack, easiest with a knife and fork.
- Time
- 45 min (15 prep + 30 cook)
- Servings
- 4
- Per serving
- 532 kcal
- Protein
- 33 g
Ingredients
- 2 large (about 1 1/4 lb) sweet potatoes, peeled, cut crosswise in 8 rounds 1.5 cm (1/2 inch) thick from the widest part
- 2 tsp olive oil
- 1 tsp salt, divided
- 1 1/4 lb (93 % lean) ground turkey (93% lean)
- 1 large egg
- 6 tbsp almond flour
- 1 small, grated and squeezed (about 3 1/2 oz after squeezing) zucchini
- 3 green onions, thinly sliced
- 1 tbsp Dijon mustard
- 1 tsp garlic powder
- 1 tsp onion powder
- 3/4 tsp paprika
- 1/2 tsp black pepper
- 1 1/2 tsp avocado oil
To top
- 1 medium avocado, mashed with the lime juice
- 2 tsp lime juice
- 4 large leaves butterhead lettuce
- 2 medium tomatoes, sliced
- 1/4 small red onion, thinly sliced
Steps
- Heat the oven to 400°F and line a large baking sheet with parchment. Brush the sweet potato rounds on both sides with the olive oil, sprinkle with 1/4 teaspoon of the salt and roast for 15 minutes. Flip them and roast 10–12 minutes more, until soft in the middle and browned at the edges. Roast the ends alongside and eat them with the burgers.
- Meanwhile, mix the turkey, egg, almond flour, zucchini, green onion, Dijon, garlic powder, onion powder, paprika, pepper and the remaining salt with your hands, just until it comes together. Shape into 4 patties 9–10 cm (about 3 1/2 inches) wide and about 3/4 inch thick; the mixture is soft, so wet your hands. Chill the patties on a plate for 15 minutes while the rounds roast.
- Heat the avocado oil in a large nonstick skillet over medium heat and cook the patties for 5–6 minutes a side, until browned and 165°F in the middle.
- Mash the avocado with the lime juice and a pinch of salt. Spread it on 4 sweet potato rounds, add lettuce, a burger, tomato and red onion, and close with the second round. It is a stack, so a knife and fork make it easiest. The patties and rounds keep 3 days in the fridge in separate boxes: reheat them, and add the fresh toppings on the day. Cooked patties freeze 3 months.
Good to know
Can I use extra-lean turkey?
You can use 99 % lean breast mince, but it cooks up drier, so add a second small squeezed zucchini. That lands at about 57 instead of 46.
My patties fall apart. What helps?
If the mix is still too wet to hold a shape after chilling, give it 10 minutes more and squeeze the zucchini harder next time. Let the patties brown for the full 5 minutes before you touch them; a nonstick pan makes this much easier.
Per
- Calories
- 139
- Protein
- (25%)
- 9 g
- Fat
- (52%)
- 8 g
- Carbohydrates
- (23%)
- 9 g
- of which sugar
- 3 g
- Fiber
- 2 g
- Sodium
- 198 mg
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Computed from the ingredients with our published formula, not yet kitchen-tested. How
As written, 2127 kcal goes into the pot and 1827 g of ingredients comes out as about 1534 g of food: 139 kcal per 100 g. Cooking moves water and energy density is the score's biggest lever, so the dish is scored as cooked, not as an average of its parts. Every ingredient links to its food page, with the same data and score. The label's percentages are each macronutrient's share of the calories. The full formula.