Summer Turkey Burgers with Home-made Guacamole

Summer BBQ dinners don't have to consist of fatty sausages and burgers, slumped with coleslaw and mayonnaise.

Last night, my friend Hazel and I decided to make our very own healthy BBQ style dinner, which included home made turkey burgers, sweet potato wedges, home made guacamole, salad and peas.

It was really easy to make, and it could have probably been improved by adding an onion, but we just used what we had in. So adapt the ingredients to how you like, as it worked for us by just chucking everything together.

Ingredients (serves 2):

Burger-
- 300g turkey mince
- 1 tsp chilli flakes
- 1 clove garlic, chopped
- 1 slice wholemeal toast
- 1 egg

Guacamole-
- 3/4 avocado
- 1/2 tomato
- couple pinches of salt
- few squeezes of fresh lemon juice

Salad-
- Handful baby spinach leaves
- 1/3 baby gem lettuce
- sprinkle of pumpkin seeds
- 2 tsp balsamic vinegar
- 1/4 cucumber

- 80g garden peas
- 1 sweet potato
- 1 tbsp olive oil

Recipe:

1. To speed the process up, put the sweet potato into the microwave for roughly 7 minutes to soften. Heat the oven to 180 degrees C.

2. While it is in the microwave, beat the egg and mix in to the turkey mince. Add the chilli flakes and garlic and mix in so it is all blended.

3. Toast the slice of bread, and once toasted, allow to cool and crush using your finger tips and mix into the meat.

4. Remove the sweet potato from the microwave, allow to cool so that you can cut it into wedges.

5. Place the wedges into a roasting tin, drizzle half the oil over them and place in the oven for around 15 mins to crisp them up.

6. Heat the rest of the oil in a griddle pan and add the turkey burgers to it. Cook these for around 12-15 minutes on a medium heat, and keep checking to see that there are no pink bits.

7. While these are cooking, you can make your guacamole. Remove the stone from the avocado and in a bowl, mash it up
using a fork, but not until fully smooth so there are still chunky bits in it.

8. Squeeze the lemon and add the salt and mix together.

9. Chop the tomatoes into small chunks and blend in to the mixture.

10. Prepare the salad ensuring it is all washed.

11. Boil hot water in a saucepan and add the peas on a medium heat. Cook for about 5 minutes and then drain off the water.

12. The burgers and wedges should be cooked by now, so serve it all up onto a plate, and enjoy!


To finish off with, we had frozen vanilla yoghurt with a spoonful of honey.

Give them a go and let me know what you think!

Olivia Dee xx