Breadless Turkey Burgers

For those of you who think a burger is a bun, and a ground beef patty, you're wrong. There are so many different combinations that you wouldn't believe how many different flavours I have created. I am going to share with you one of my favourite burgers that I've made in a long time

Ingredients:

• 1 lb of ground (minced) turkey
• 1 medium white onion
• 2 small or 1 large clove of garlic
• salt and pepper OR montreal steak spice
• 1 egg (you can use egg whites if you don't want to use the yolk)
• hot pepper (optional)

How to make

1. put the ground turkey into a large bowl
2. finely dice the onion and put in into the bowl
3. crush the garlic and add it to the bowl
4. add in salt and pepper to taste, remember a little goes a long way
5. crack your egg into the mixture
6. (optional) finely chop your hot pepper and add it into the mixture
7. using your hands, mix everything together making sure everything is evenly throughout the meat
8. split the meat into 3 balls and compress them making sure to get the air out of the meat
9. start to flatten the balls and shape them into burger shapes. 
10. using wax paper and a plate, put the meat between two sheets of wax paper. press the plate on top of the top sheet of wax paper to flatten the burger further.
11. when done shaping put them in the fridge for at least 30 minutes, (if you want to have them the next day, put them in the freezer overnight, and then put them in the fridge for the next day), to let them set
12. you can either cook the burgers on a grill on in a pan on the stove depending on the time of the year, put the burgers on your cooking device and cook the burgers until the juices run clear. you don't want to press on the burgers as they cook because you will push out what juices there are and since turkey is already a lean meat, you could end up with an excessively dry meat.
13. take the burgers off the grill and they are ready to serve.

 The next step is to decide whether or not you want a traditional bun (bread) or if you want to go gluten free, and just use a thick chunk of iceberg lettuce. I'm personally using iceberg lettuce and making my burger like that. next I am going to add in my condiments which are mustard, ketchup, green pickle relish, 1 pickle sliced, and 2 slices of tomato.
Calories: per serving with lettuce bun before condiments  236
              per serving with lettuce bun adfter condiments 236+3+10+14+8+7
                                                                                  = 278

sides can include baked sweet potato fries, tomoato salad, quinoa etc. hope you guys enjoyed this recipe as much as I did. next time I'll add photos of the foods I'm cooking!

Good eating!

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This is my blog all about food. I love eating, but I also like finding and creating new recipes. I will also make demonstration videos about how to cook some different things. When  I go to restaurants, I will take pictures of my plates and explain what it was I had, if I had something extraordinary and I found to look interesting. I will also try to recreate different meals I've tried at restaurants and tell you about how they turned out.