Detox Healthy Turkey Burgers Without Bread

These healthy turkey burgers are delicious served with a salad, but if you're wanting to simulate the whole burger experience you can create the look and feel of a burger bun in a very healthy way using oven baked portobello mushrooms which makes a deliciously healthy turkey burger without a bun. 

Ingredients

makes 4 burgers

1 onion, roughly chopped

2 small cloves garlic, crushed

2 teaspoons dried oregano crushed with your fingertips

8 large basil leaves

3 handfuls baby spinach

Zest of 1 lemon

Pinch coarse sea salt

½ teaspoon freshly ground black pepper

500g turkey mince

2 tablespoons extra virgin olive oil

For the Portobello mushroom bun

8 portobello mushroom1 tablespoon extra virgin olive oil

Method

1. Blitz the onion, garlic, oregano, basil, spinach, lemon zest, salt and pepper together in a food processor until finely chopped. Place the mixture in a large bowl along with the turkey and mix with your hands or a rubber spatula to thoroughly combine. Form the mixture into 4 patties. At this point it’s ideal to refrigerate the burgers for a least 1 hour or as long as overnight, to really let the flavours settle in, but they’ll still be OK if you don’t have this extra time.

2. Preheat the oven to 200°C, fan 180°C, gas 4. Remove the stalks from the mushrooms and put them in a roasting dish, cap-side down. Rub 1 tablespoon olive oil and some seasoning over the mushrooms and put into the oven to roast for 20 minutes.

3. Heat the burger oil in a frying pan and sauté for 7 to 8 minutes on both sides.

4. Remove the mushrooms from the oven, place one mushroom cap side down on each plate, place a burger on top of this and another mushroom on top of the burger cap side up.

5. Serve with a salad or cooked non starchy vegetables.