Mighty Morphing Turkey Burgers
The other day I made a copious amount of homemade turkey burgers with onion, garlic, tarragon, black pepper and cayenne pepper. The ground turkey was on sale a few weeks ago and was sitting in the freezer… so I decided to just use ALL of it at once.
It was this afternoon while I was nomming on one for lunch that I realized I’m going to be stuck eating these all week. Great. This turkey overload is enough to hold me over until November.
So I took the bell peppers I had stowed away in the fridge and decided to clean them out and saute them in a pan with some olive oil for a little bit (covered so they’d cook faster). It’s way too hot out to turn the oven on just for 3 bell peppers.
Nuked the burgers in the microwave and mushed them up with some additional seasonings (more cayenne, black pepper, basil, parsley, oregano), pecorino-romano cheese and the leftover brown rice I had.
Shoved this little concoction into said peppers, garnished with some hot sauce and fully enjoyed every second of gobbling (pun!) them up. The rice gave a sweetness to the strong flavors in the turkey and the pepper was still slightly firm so I wasn’t eating mush inside of mush.
Just because you’re on the POV(erty) diet doesn’t mean you have to eat crap all the time! This is a prime example of getting creative with whatever you have!
