Prep Time: 20 min // Cook Time: 32 min // Total: 52 min // Serving: 5 (3 pc per serving)

While people often view eating ground turkey as a healthier alternative to ground beef, it sometimes can end up dry and flavorless when making them into burger or slider patties. If that’s your concern too, my teriyaki turkey slider recipe will change that perspective for you. The slider patties in this recipe are juicy, moist and flavorful.  The keys to my juicy, moist and flavorful slider patties are adding chopped broccoli and mushrooms into the ground turkey meat. This is a clever way to add more vegetables to your diet, because every bite contains the freshness of broccoli along with the earthiness of mushrooms in that delicious teriyaki turkey meat patty. This recipe can be easily modified into different flavors. Use different seasonings to create Italian or Mediterranean styles. Regardless of the flavors you want to create, be sure that the broccoli and mushrooms are finely chopped. The water content of these two vegetables gives these patties their juiciness and the moist texture that we want in ground turkey meat.

Here is a bonus tip: if you have leftover broccoli stalks, don’t toss them aside. Slice them into coins and marinate them with rice vinegar, sugar and salt. These pickled broccoli coins will become your next tangy and crunchy broccoli condiment!

 

Ingredients:

Turkey Slider

  • 2 cups finely chopped broccoli (~10 medium broccoli florets)

  • 2 cups diced mushrooms (~12 medium mushrooms)

  • 1 Lb ground turkey

  • 1 egg, beaten

  • 2 tablespoons Yoshida teriyaki sauce

  • 1 tablespoon grated fresh ginger

  • ½ teaspoon ground black pepper

  • ½ teaspoon vegetable oil

Broccoli Pickles

  • 1 cup broccoli coins (1 broccoli stem)

  • ½ cup rice vinegar

  • 1 ½ teaspoons sugar

  •  1/8 teaspoon salt

                       

Instructions:

Teriyaki Sliders

  1. Chop mushrooms and broccoli florets into small pieces using a food processor

  2. Mix all the ingredients in a bowl

  3. Use ¼ cup measuring cup to form turkey patties

  4. Pan fry each side of the turkey patties for 3-4 minutes on medium heat. It takes about 7 minutes to cook each patty

  5. Place each patty on dinner or slider roll

  6. Serve with desired sauce or broccoli pickle 

Broccoli Pickles

  1.  Peel the broccoli steam and cut into 1/8  coins

  2.   Mix rice vinegar, sugar and salt in a container to make the pickle marinade

  3.   Place the broccoli coins in the pickle marinade while making the teriyaki sliders