Grilled Turkey Burgers
Easy, juicy Grilled Turkey Burgers are packed with summer grated zucchini–delicious, moist, and perfect for warm-weather dinners.
This past week we enjoyed Summer Grilled Turkey Burgers – so good! You will love how moist and tasty these grilled turkey burgers are made with grated zucchini.
Have you been barbecuing up a storm this week? We sure have, like every night! It’s way too expensive for our family to eat out that often, so we’ve enjoyed chicken, salmon, and lots of burgers!
Grilled Turkey Burgers
We love this best Grilled Turkey Burgers recipe – super juicy, flavorful, and so easy with grated zucchini! It’s the ultimate smmer burger, and the grilled turkey burgers time is simple–about 3 minutes on each side.
Why we love this recipe
- Simple ingredients.
- Make ahead and freeze, if you choose. Great for camping!
- Crowd-pleasing recipe, served with favorite toppings.
Turkey burgers are great for weeknights and summer grilling and camping trips!
How to season turkey burgers
The flavor is simple in this turkey burger recipe–just add salt, pepper, garlic powder, and paprika. But the secret, I feel, is in the pepper. We love to use “white pepper” in this recipe. It gives the burgers that extra flavor and “punch.”
Gather these ingredients:
- Ground turkey
- Egg
- Zucchini: grated (about 1 cup squeezed)
- Panko bread crumbs
- Red onion: grated
- Garlic powder
- Chopped parsley
- Paprika
- Kosher salt
- White pepper
- Cheese: Tillamook Sharp Cheddar is the best, but it optional in this recipe.
How do you make grilled turkey burgers?
- Preheat grill to medium heat.
- In a fine mesh strainer, add the shredded zucchini and top with kosher salt. Allow zucchini to sit in the strainer with a bowl underneath to catch water.
- Combine turkey, egg, bread crumbs, zucchini shreds, parsley, grated onion,and remaining seasonings in a large bowl.
- Mix using your hands until ingredients are well combined (but not mixed into a paste). Using your hands or a burger presser, form meat into 12, 1’’ patties.
- Spray both sides with oil then grill until patties are no longer pink in the center.
How long to grill turkey burgers?
Here are a couple steps to ensure a crisp on the outside, juicy on the inside. Grated zucchini, grated onion, and egg give the patties a moistness, so they don’t dry out from the medium heat of the grill. Feel free to turn these into turkey cheeseburgers, by adding cheese — preferably Cheddar or pepper Jack — over the patties in the last minute of grilling, and then cover the grill to allow the cheese to melt.
Grill turkey burgers about 3 minutes on each side, on a medium-heat grill.
Since they are not super thick when you make them, they grill pretty fast.
How do you serve zucchini turkey burgers?
Serve healthy and flavorful burgers with tomatoes, lettuce, your favorite sauce, avocado, and pickles. Try our pink sauce (or special burger sauce) recipe!
The burgers are tender, delicious, and perfect for warm-weather dinners, and can be served with Trader Joe’s Macaroni Salad or our favorite Summer Italian Spaghetti Salad Recipe.
Best summer burgers
Zucchini Turkey Burgers (ground turkey burgers) recipe makes 12 patties, so invite your family, friends or neighbors over!
We’ve also been hosting a lot, and burgers are a great entree to serve, because whether your guests want a bun or not, burgers are still delicious assembled just the way you like them.
Oh, and don’t forget to end the summer evening with my mom’s Homemade Vanilla Ice Cream recipe (so good with white peaches!)
Try these burgers with this Peaches Quinoa Salad,, Fresh Peach Arugula Basil Salad [A Spicy Perspective], Tomato, Peach, and Burrata Salad [Two Peas and Their Pod].
Get the Recipe:
Grilled Turkey Burgers
Ingredients
- 2 pounds ground turkey
- 1 egg
- 2 small zucchini, grated (about 1 cup squeezed)
- ½ cup Panko bread crumbs
- ½ cup red onion, grated
- 2 tsp. garlic powder
- 1 cup finely chopped parsley
- 1 tsp. paprika, plus 1 tsp. (separate)
- 1 Tbsp. kosher salt
- 1 tsp. white pepper
Instructions
- Preheat grill to medium heat.
- In a fine mesh strainer, add the shredded zucchini and top with 1 Tbsp. of kosher salt. Allow zucchini to sit for 10 minutes in the strainer with a bowl underneath to catch water.
- In a large mixing bowl, combine turkey, eggs, bread crumbs, zucchini shreds, red onion (grated),parsley, and remaining seasonings. Mix using your hands until ingredients are well combined (but not mixed into a paste). Using your hands or a burger presser, form meat into 12, 1’’ patties.
- Spray both sides with oil then grill for about 3 minutes on each side, or until patties are no longer pink in the center.
- Serve healthy and flavorful burgers with tomatoes, lettuce, your favorite sauce, avocado, and pickles.
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What sauce did you use? Looks delicious. Is there a recipe for the sauce?
I have a recipe coming up, but not posted yet. I linked to Recipegirl’s recipe in this post though. Grab that one! :)
Oh, those sound so yummy! thank you!
I truly want to make these burgers, however, the directions are not showing on my end.
Anyone able to help?
We added the directions, Ruthann. Thanks for letting us know they dropped off!
So good. I really need to read some of her books. Those burgers sound good too. Now that I’m back from NY I’m hoping to get into a better summer routine and using my little table top grill more often.