So for my very first recipe I am going to dish about is my famous turkey burger sliders. These are ALWAYS a hit with my friends and family and maybe my most requested meal to make! Its rather simple but there are a lot of other moving components and perfect for small dinner parties.I usually pair this with a nice sweet white wine or a favored beer with some homemade fries or a quick caesar salad. So with that lets jump right into this thing. Let me know if this was helpful for you guys and feel free to leave positive feedback.
Prep Time: 15 minutes Cook Time: 30 minutes Serving Size: 4
Ingredients:
- 1 package of ground turkey meat (usually about 6oz)
- 1/2 cup Hidden Valley Ranch Dressing (Liquid form)
- Hidden Valley Ranch Dressing (Powder form)
- 1 package of Bacon (turkey bacon is also a great alternative)
- A bunch of fresh spinach or half a bag of packaged spinach
- 1 cup of chopped heirloom tomatoes
- Romano and Asiago Cheese (or your cheese of choice)
- 12 pack of onion dinner rolls
- 1/4 cup of Honey bbq sauce
- 4 gloves of fresh garlic
- 1 tablespoons of garlic salt
- 1/2 tablespoon of fresh ground pepper
- 2 tablespoons of butter
- 1/3 of olive oil
Start with the ground turkey meat in a large mixing bowl. Add the Hidden Valley Ranch dressing (both wet and dry) and 1/2 tablespoon of garlic salt. Set the remaining garlic salt to the side. Now mix the ranch dressing and turkey meat together thoroughly, you can get down and dirty with you hands if you like! This is so that your turkey sliders have moisture after frying.Lastly, pre-heat the oven to 375 degrees.
In a medium heated skillet, add olive oil just enough to cover the bottom of the pan. Make about 1′ inch circular balls of the turkey meat and slowly add to the skillet. This also is the perfect time to lay your bacon out on a baking sheet and slide into the oven for about 15 minutes or until crispy.
Keeping an eye on the turkey meat and the bacon, heat another skillet on medium heat. Add the butter to the skillet and after about a minute or when the butter begins to melt, add the chopped garlic. Once the garlic begins to fuse with the butter (it smells amazing), throw in your heirloom tomatoes, fresh spinach, garlic salt and pepper. (Please Note: when using fresh spinach, wash of all the dirt completely off the leaves because if you do not… It will taste like you have sand in your food). Sauté the veggies until the tomatoes become soft and the spinach has wilted, remove from flame.
Now the fun part, assembling the sliders. Once the sliders are cooked throughly and brown on both sides and the bacon is nice and crispy, its time to start making these babies. The most efficient way to start is by toasting the onion rolls in a broiler. On a baking sheet/ baking dish, cut the rolls in the middle and pull them apart (this is to get an even toast). Place rolls in oven for under 2 minutes and just when they beginning to toast remove them from the oven. Place the turkey burger and cheese on each individual slider and place back in the oven for about a minute. This creates that awesome melted cheese effect. After removing the sliders from the oven a second time, add the bacon, spinach and tomatoes on top. Lastly, drizzle the bbq sauce over top of all the sliders. And THATS ALL, Easy right!
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