So after two weeks of excess up t’north, which consisted of mainly pie and beer, I thought maybe my belly could do with some shrinking. In fact it’s got so bad I was eating cottage cheese and carrots for my lunch….I know, judge me! So I took this recipe off the BBC Good Food App under the Healthy Cook book and did some skimpy student changes.
I used minced turkey thigh meat against recipe instructions as it’s much meatier, juicer and in all honesty much cheaper than normal turkey mince and it’s still just as healthy. I bulked the meat mix out with a hell of a lot of onion as well so the same amount of meat for four burgers made six instead, plus a burger isn’t a burger with out onions 🙂 This worked really well as the onions added texture and crunch to the burger making it much lighter all round.
The caesar dressing was a big challenge for me and I’m ashamed to say I failed by simply using too much lemon, it certainly didn’t taste bad but it did taste more like a lemon dressing. In fact when I first made it it was so tart my face nearly turned inside out! I followed the recipe to the tiniest detail so I really don’t know why that happened but perhaps I juiced a little to enthusiastically? Still it was a very tasty dressing none the less.
When they were assembled they just looked lovely and tasted just as good as a beef burger to me. It’s also the first time I’ve had a burger without cheese and not missed it. So an all round winner but I need to work on my over enthusiastic juicing skills.
The Foodie
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P.s. yes I am eating it off a chair….we don’t have a dining room table because I now sleep in the dining room lol we’re crammed into a student house :p
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