Our Juicy Turkey Burger Recipe is hands down the best! We have a secret ingredient that helps keep them moist and delicious, never dried out. These turkey patties are best cooked in a skillet, or you can use a griddle on the grill. Once you make these, you’ll never go back to frozen or store bought, you just can’t beat the flavor.
Why You’ll Love Our Turkey Burger Recipe
If you think turkey burgers are dry and frankly – boring. You HAVE to try this recipe. We use a secret ingredient that adds flavor and helps keep them moist, never dried out.
- Secret Ingredient: We use mayonnaise in this turkey burger recipe to add a rich flavor and help keep the patties moist.
- Easy To Make: Only 5 ingredients in these turkey burgers, and one bowl. Form into patties and cook in a skillet, that’s all!
- Meal Prep Friendly: Make a double batch and have a meal at the ready or freeze for another time. These turkey burgers freeze really well so go ahead and make a bunch.
Ingredients You’ll Need
Honestly, I don’t really like the taste of ground turkey with a higher fat content, and lean ground turkey is best for these turkey patties.
- Ground Turkey: Use 93% or 97% lean ground turkey.
- Garlic Powder: For a mild garlic flavor, fresh garlic would have a stronger garlic flavor, if using make sure it’s finely minced.
- Eggs: 2 large eggs, beaten. Helps to bind the ground turkey patties together.
- Mayonnaise: Adds delicious flavor but also keeps the turkey burgers juicy.
- Grated Onion: Don’t forget the juice from the grated onion – it adds a wonderful flavor to the ground turkey.
How To Make Turkey Burgers
There’s really only a few steps to getting these homemade turkey burgers on the table. We’ll go over the basics here but for full instructions head down to the recipe card.
- Mix and Chill: Add the ground turkey, grated onion with juice, salt, pepper, garlic powder, beaten eggs and mayonnaise to a large bowl and mix together well. Chill the ground turkey mixture for at least 30 minutes or up to overnight.
- Form and Cook: Divide the mixture into 6 patties for larger burgers or 8 patties for smaller burgers. We usually make 6 patties because we enjoy the larger size. Add the patties to a skillet lightly sprayed with oil and cook over medium heat for 5 minutes on each side. Cut through the center to make sure that no pink remains. Ground turkey should be cooked to a temperature of 165 degrees.
Tips For Success
- Wet Your Hands: This turkey mixture will be very wet. Roll it into a ball as best as you can and then add it right into a hot skillet. Then use a spatula (sprayed with non-stick cooking spray) to gently press down and from a patty with a flatter shape.
- Medium to Medium-Low Heat: Use a lower heat to cook these, especially if you’re making the large size burgers. You want to make sure the turkey cooks through the centers without the outside getting too dark.
- Chill The Mixture: After combining the ingredients, let the mixture chill for at least 30 minutes (longer is better) so that the flavors blend together. Chilling the ground turkey will also make the mixture a little easier to work with.
Fixing Ideas For Turkey Burgers
These turkey burgers are SO good, I’m telling you slap them on a bun or naked on a plate and you’ll be thrilled with the flavor. However, we do like our toppings! For parties you can set out a whole fixings table and let your guests customize their own burger.
Also, I know it sounds strange but my son’s favorite burger he ever had was at a restaurant near his college campus and it had peanut sauce on top! It’s now one of his favorite ways to eat these burgers!
Condiments:
- Mayonnaise
- Ketchup
- Mustard
- Yum Yum Sauce
- BBQ Sauce: Any flavor you like, try our BBQ Bacon Turkey Burger recipe.
- Roasted Garlic Aioli
- Sriracha
- Steak Sauce or our popular Awesome Sauce
Toppings:
- Lettuce
- Tomato
- Onions – Raw, pickled, caramelized or fried. Try our Caramelized Onion Burger recipe.
- Bacon
- Pickles
- Fried Egg
- Cheese
- Avocado
- Jalapeños: Raw or pickled – Try our Jalapeño Turkey Burger recipe.
- Roasted Red Peppers
Reheat and Store
We often make these turkey burgers in large quantities on the weekend so that we have them for dinners and meal prepping during the week. Again, these turkey burgers have been PERFECTED – so even upon reheating, they’re still going to be juicy and tasty.
We find that just heating them up in the microwave for a minute or so works just fine. You can also put them back into a skillet and warm them for a few minutes on each side.
To store, place the patties in an air tight container for up to 4 days in the refrigerator. After that it’s best to transfer them to the freezer where you can keep them for as long as 6 months.
Here’s a Few More Turkey Burger Recipes To Try
- Jalapeño Turkey Burgers
- Barbecue Bacon Turkey Burger
- Caramelized Onion Turkey Burger with Garlic Aioli
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Juicy Turkey Burger Recipe
- Prep Time: 5 minutes
- Cook Time: 10 minutes
- Total Time: 15 minutes
- Yield: 6 Servings 1x
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Pin RecipeThis Juicy Turkey Burger Recipe is so moist and flavorful thanks to our secret ingredient. These burgers are best cooked in a skillet so you can make them all year long. Enjoy them as is or piled onto buns with all your favorite toppings!
Ingredients
- 2 pounds ground turkey (93% or 97% lean)
- 2 teaspoons kosher salt
- 1 – 1 1/2 teaspoons ground black pepper, depending on your taste
- 1 1/2 teaspoons garlic powder
- 2 tablespoons mayonnaise
- 2 eggs, beaten
- 2 heaping tablespoons grated onion with juice
Instructions
- Mix all the ingredients together in a large bowl. Refrigerate the mixture for at least 30 minutes or up to overnight.
- Spray a large skillet or griddle with non-stick cooking spray over medium to medium-low heat. You can also spray your hands with cooking spray or wet them slightly with water so the turkey mixture won’t stick to your hands when you’re forming the patties. (See note)
- Form the turkey mixture into 6 patties as best as you can, Place the patties onto the hot skillet (use a spatula to help from the patties more once they’re in the skillet) and cook for 5 minutes on each side, until no longer pink in the center, and the temperature registers 165 degrees with a meat thermometer. Transfer the turkey burgers onto a plate covered with foil and repeat with the remaining patties.
- Serve with or without buns and with desired condiments and/or toppings.
Recipe Notes
Because the ground turkey mixture will be quite wet, we loosely form a portion into a ball and then place it into the skillet. Then using a spatula sprayed with non-stick cooking spray, press down until we get a flatter, rounder patty.
You can keep the turkey burgers warm in a 300 degree oven on an oven proof plate covered with foil for about 30 minutes or until ready to serve.
If you’re not a mayonnaise fan, you can substitute olive oil, but the mayonnaise adds a lot of flavor to the burgers.
- Category: Dinner
- Method: stove top
- Cuisine: American
These turkey burgers were juicy and delicious!
Thank you for sharing the recipe.
Best turkey burger I have ever had. So moist and great flavor. I used the left over turkey meat the next day for macaroni goulash it was so good. Thank you for the recipe.
So easy, so tasty, we make this all the time and it’s part of our rotation! (Honestly didn’t think turkey burgers could be this juicy.) They reheat well and if we don’t finish the burgers I throw one of the cooked patties over a salad or something the next day. Thanks for the recipe!!
So happy that you like them, thanks for letting us know!