Spicy Grilled Turkey Burger with Coleslaw Recipe

"Spicy grilled turkey burger served with tomatoes, sweet pickles, and coleslaw. Not your everyday turkey burger, these have fresh chives, bread crumbs, basil and Tabasco sauce."

This grilled turkey burger recipe use regular Tabasco sauce with the white meat turkey burgers and chipotle Tabasco sauce with the dark meat burgers. With the white meat turkey burgers, since we had less chili sauce, the turkey flavor was more pronounced. With the dark meat burgers, the chipotle sauce added a lot of kick to the meat. Both burgers were flavorful, filling, and paired very well with the spicy coleslaw, sweet pickles, and tomatoes.

Spicy Grilled Turkey Burger with Coleslaw Recipe

Yield : Serves 4

Spicy Grilled Turkey Burger Ingredients :

Turkey burgers :

• 1 1/2 pounds ground turkey (white meat, dark meat, or a mixture)
• 4 hamburger buns, lightly toasted
• 1/2 cup fresh bread crumbs
• 1 tomato, cored and sliced
• 4 fresh basil leaves, thinly sliced
• 2 tablespoons chopped fresh chives
• 2 green onions, minced, white and green parts
• 1 tablespoon Worcestershire sauce
• 1 1/2 to 3 teaspoons of hot chile sauce such as Tabasco sauce (amount depends on how spicy you like your foods), OR Tabasco Chipotle sauce
• 3 tablespoons mayonnaise
• 1/2 teaspoon freshly ground pepper, OR more to taste
• Sweet pickle slices
• 1 teaspoon sea salt, OR more to taste

Coleslaw :

• 2 cups shredded cabbage
• 10 basil leaves, thinly sliced
• 1 cup loosely packed arugula, watercress, OR just another cup of shredded cabbage
• 1/2 cup of mayonnaise
• 1 tablespoon apple cider vinegar
• 2 teaspoons Dijon mustard
• 1/2 teaspoon crushed red pepper flakes
• 1 teaspoon sugar
• Salt and freshly ground pepper to taste

Directions :

1. Prepare your grill (either gas OR charcoal) for direct high heat. You can also cook the burgers on the stove-top on a griddle or cast iron frying pan.

2. In a large bowl, gently combine the turkey meat, bread crumbs, chives, basil, green onions, mayonnaise, Worcestershire sauce, chili sauce, salt and pepper. Work the mixture with your hands until it is just mixed. Don't over mix or your burgers will end up tough. Form four patties, about 1 inch thick.

3. Sprinkle the patties with salt and pepper. Grill them for 5-7 minutes on each side, until the internal temperature of the patties reach 170°F on a meat thermometer. Turkey burgers should be cooked through, not rare. Toward the end of the cooking, put the buns on the grill to toast for about a minute. Remove the burgers from the grill to a platter, cover and let rest for 5 minutes.

4. Assemble the coleslaw. Whisk the mayonnaise, vinegar, mustard, sugar, red pepper flakes together in a small bowl. Add to the cabbage, arugula, and basil in a larger bowl right before serving.

5. Assemble the burgers by placing each burger on a bottom bun, and stacking a tomato slice, some pickles, and a bit of coleslaw on top, and then topping with the top bun.

Thanks to www.simplyrecipes.com for Spicy Grilled Turkey Burger with Coleslaw Recipe !!