RECIPE: Club Burger with Avocado-Ranch Dressing

Yesterday we ate a Beef burger rather than the Turkey burger depicted in the original Club Burger recipe.  I had some hamburger meat in the freezer and besides, we'd eaten turkey burgers the last couple of Sundays. 

Club Burger with Oven Cheese Fries

Club Burger with Avocado-Ranch Dressing

6 slices bacon

2 lbs ground beef

1/2 teaspoon onion powder

2 Tablespoons Montreal Steak Seasoning

1 avocado

1/4 cup sour cream

half of lemon, juiced

dried chives

dried dill

salt & pepper

hamburger buns

lettuce

tomatoes

Mix hamburger meat, onion powder, steak seasoning and form into 8 hamburgers.  Grill them.  Mash avocado, sour cream, lemon juice, chives, dill and salt & pepper, set aside.  Spread buns with avocado-ranch dressing and layer burger, bacon, lettuce & tomatoes.

I love guacamole and the Avocado-Ranch dressing didn't disappoint me at all.  In fact, I think it might be my new way to make it! 

Enjoy!

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• Summer Grilling Recipe Exchange at Family Balance Sheet 
• Mouthwatering Monday at Southern Fairytale
• Tempt My Tummy Tuesday at Blessed with Grace
• Delicious Dish at It's a Blog Party
• $5 Dollar Dinner Challenge
  
• Tasty Tuesday at Beauty and Bedlam 
• Tuesday at the Table at All the Small Stuff 
• Grocery Cart Challenge Recipe Swap
• Tackle it Tuesday at 5 Minutes for Mom  
• Talented Tuesday at My Frugal Family
• Tuesday Tastes at Crazy Daisy 
• Hon, What's for Dinner Wednesday

RECIPE: Turkey Club Burger

Last week's burger recipe was Rachael Ray's Open Wide! Tur-Chicken Club Burger.  I changed it up to suit our pantry and what we like.  Here's how I changed it up:

Turkey Club Burgers

1 lb ground turkey

1 teaspoon paprika

2 teaspoons poultry seasoning

1 Tablespoon McCormick's Montreal Chicken Seasoning

1 Tablespoon dried parsley

1/2 teaspoon onion powder

1/4 cup sour cream

1/2 teaspoon dried dill weed

1 teaspoon lemon juice

pinch of salt

pinch of pepper

1/2 teaspoon garlic powder

8 slices bacon, pre-cooked

lettuce

tomato, sliced

avocado, sliced

hamburger buns

Mix ground turkey, paprika, poultry seasoning, Montreal Chicken seasoning, dried parsley and onion powder.  Form into 4 patties and grill.  In the meantime, mix together sour cream, dill weed, lemon juice, salt, pepper and garlic powder in small bowl.  Spread a little sour cream mixture on top and bottom buns and add turkey burger, bacon, lettuce, tomato and avocado.  

This was a really yummy burger!  Definitely would eat it again.

This post has also been linked to:

• Summer Grilling Recipe Exchange at Family Balance Sheet
• Tempt My Tummy Tuesday at Blessed with Grace
• Delicious Dish at It's a Blog Party
• $5 Dollar Dinner Challenge
  
• Tasty Tuesday at Beauty and Bedlam 
• Tuesday at the Table at All the Small Stuff 
• Grocery Cart Challenge Recipe Swap
• Tackle it Tuesday at 5 Minutes for Mom  
• Talented Tuesday at My Frugal Family
• Tuesday Tastes at Crazy Daisy 
• Hon, What's for Dinner Wednesday

RECIPE: Turkey Bean Burrito Burgers

We're testing out some burger recipes featured on the Food Network website by Rachael Ray (and maybe a few others!)  This week we tried her Turkey Bean Burrito Burgers. 

They were really good.  I doubled the recipe and made 8 large burgers and 2 small burgers.  I forgot turkey doesn't shrink as much as ground beef, so the burgers ended up being HUGE!  But that's okay.  The extras will be great for my husband's evening snack at work this week.  

This is how I changed it up:

Turkey Bean Burrito Burgers

2 lbs ground turkey

2 cups pre-cooked, cold rice

2 cups Great Northern Beans (pre-cooked last month for OAMC)

2 Tablespoon chili powder

2 teaspoon cumin

1/2 teaspoon ground coriander

1 Tablespoon Montreal Chicken Seasoning (the recipe suggested Montreal Steak seasoning but since I had the chicken variety, that's what I used)

2 Tablespoons vegetable oil

Lettuce

buns

salsa

mock-a-mole (wish I had a real avocado for guacamole)

Mix ground turkey, rice, beans, chili powder, cumin, coriander, Montreal seasoning and oil.  Form patties and grill until done.  Serve on buns with lettuce, salsa and guacamole.

Enjoy!

This post has also been linked to:

• Tempt My Tummy Tuesday at Blessed with Grace
• $5 Dollar Dinner Challenge  and Squash Recipes
• Tasty Tuesday at Beauty and Bedlam 
• Tuesday at the Table at All the Small Stuff 
• Grocery Cart Challenge Recipe Swap
• Tackle it Tuesday at 5 Minutes for Mom  
• Talented Tuesday at My Frugal Family
• Tuesday Tastes at Crazy Daisy 
• Hon, What's for Dinner Wednesday

RECIPE: Salmon Burgers

Over the summer months, I'm planning to grill and pan-fry more burgers than usual.  The stores normally reduce the price of ground meat, whether it's beef, turkey, pork or chicken.  Anyways, I decided since Rachael Ray has described herself as the "queen of burgers", I'd get my inspiration from her recipes.  

We ate her Salmon Burgers and they were really, really good.

Here's what we did:

 sorry the picture is terrible

Salmon Burgers

1 can salmon, drained and skin removed (because I don't like it, but we kept the bones)

1 egg

1/4 cup bread crumbs (I used whole wheat because that's what I had in the freezer)

1 teaspoon Old Bay seafood seasoning

mayonnaise

lemon

tomato slices

lettuce leaves

homemade hamburger buns

In a large bowl, combine the salmon, egg, bread crumbs and seasoning and mix well.  Form into 4 patties.

Heat a large skillet over medium heat and add 1 Tablespoon of oil.  Pan fry the patties for about 4 minutes on each side.

Meanwhile, mix about 1/4 cup mayonnaise and 1 teaspoon lemon juice and spread over the buns, stack with lettuce and tomatoes.  Top with burger and enjoy!

We really loved these.  And they were cheap since the can salmon is pretty inexpensive.  I served them with applesauce and french fries. 

Have a great week!

This post has also been linked to:

• Tempt My Tummy Tuesday at Blessed with Grace
• $5 Dollar Dinner Challenge  
• Tasty Tuesday at Beauty and Bedlam 
• Tuesday at the Table at All the Small Stuff 
• Grocery Cart Challenge Recipe Swap
• Tackle it Tuesday at 5 Minutes for Mom  
• Talented Tuesday at My Frugal Family
• Tuesday Tastes at Crazy Daisy