Open-Faced Asian Turkey Burgers
Instead of regular soy sauce, use tamari sauce in this recipe. It has a smoother flavour (and contains little or no wheat). You’ll find it in most grocery and health food stores.
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Ingredients
- 450 g ground turkey
- 2 green onions finely sliced
- 1 tbsp low-sodium soy sauce
- 1 tsp ginger minced
- 1 tsp garlic minced
- 1 tsp sesame seed oil
- 2 tbsp lime juice (divided)
- 2 small handfuls cilantro leaves sliced (divided)
- 1/4 cup low-fat mayonnaise
- 4 plain rice cakes (or 2 whole-wheat buns)
- Handful bean sprouts washed
- 8 slices tomato
- Salt and pepper to taste
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Instructions
- Preheat barbecue to high.
- In a medium-sized bowl, combine ground turkey, green onion, soy sauce, ginger, garlic, sesame seed oil, 1 Tbsp (15 mL) lime juice and 1 small handful sliced cilantro. Season with salt and pepper. Mix together and divide into four patties about ½ inch thick.
- Place burgers on grill and cook for five minutes on one side, then flip and cook another five minutes or until cooked through.
- Mix remaining lime juice with mayonnaise. Divide mayo mixture between the four rice cakes (or each side of two buns). Top each with two tomato slices, a burger, one quarter of bean sprouts and remaining cilantro. If you like, serve with some coleslaw.
Recipe Notes
Per serving: 262 calories, 22 g protein, 14 g fat (3 g saturated fat), 13 g carbohydrates, 1 g fibre, 93 mg cholesterol, 289 mg sodium
