Stuffed Turkey Burgers

The idea to make burgers was put into my head by the show How I Met Your Mother.  In one episode Marshall searches for the best burger in New York, and so I consequently wanted burgers.  I am trying to be more mindful of my spending and I wanted to make the burgers instead of going to find a pricet burger.  I have always been a fan of cheeseburgers, and I particularly love to up the cheese level of dishes.  A while back I stumbled upon a stuffed cheeseburger where you put cheese inside the burger and on top.  This definitely met my qualifications for upping the cheese level of a burger.  I decided to take it a step further this time and went searching for stuffed burger recipes.  I stumbled upon an awesome one by Sonny Anderson and after some modifications I achieved a delicious success.  So delicious in fact that I only remembered to take a picture of these delightful things after I had consumed them all.  To be fair to myself though, they weren't exactly pretty, just very very tasty.

Ingredients:
1 pound ground turkey
Pepper
Tony Cacheres (or salt, garlic powder and onion powder)
Hot Sauce
Worcestershire Sauce
1/2 Onion (Diced Finely)
1/2 Pint of Mushrooms (Diced Finely)
4 Strips of Bacon
Blue Cheese Crumbles

This will make 4 very larger burgers.  Add the pepper, hot sauce, Cajun seasoning and Worcestershire sauce to the ground turkey and use your hands to mix it together.  Don't work it too much, just enough to incorporate the ingredients.  I didn't measure when I did this, I just eyeballed a good coating of seasoning and a few big splashes of the sauces.  Let this mixture sit in the fridge for a while to let the flavors combine.

In a large skillet brown the bacon until it is crispy then remove it from the pan to a plate lined with paper towels to cool.  Add the onions to the bacon grease and saute until the soften then add the mushrooms.  Cook until the mushrooms are tender.  Remove from the hear and crumble in the bacon.  Allow the mixture to cool.

Take your turkey mixture from the fridge and cook a small piece to test your seasoning, add more salt (cajun seasoning) if needed.  Divide the turkey into 4 equal portions and then divide each portion in half.  On a large plate flatten one of your halves into a very thin pancake.  Add a palm full of your bacon mix to the center of your pancake and then sprinkle on some blue cheese crumbles.  Top with the other half of your turkey portion, I flattened them in my hand before topping them.  Push the edges together to seal up the burger and then set aside.  Repeat for the other three burgers.  Grill the burgers for about 4 to 5 minutes on each side.

We ate these without buns because I don't eat buns, but I think that if you can handle the carbs then a bun definitely will help this feel more like a burger.  I topped mine with a slice of cheddar cause I am weird like that, and I loved it.  The blue cheese really pops out of every bite and the bacon is subtle but present in the background.  I served these with oven baked zucchini chips (coat zucchini slices in egg wash and then Parmesan bread crumb mix and bake at 350 for 30 minutes).

Happy Dining!