Make-Your-Own Turkey Burger

• 12 oz  99 percent lean ground turkey
  2 Tbsp fresh parsley, rinsed, dried, and chopped (or 2 tsp dried)
  4 whole-wheat hamburger buns
  Nonstick cooking spray

• Burger ingredients:

  1 C  fresh tomatoes, rinsed and diced (or canned no-salt-added diced tomatoes)
  1 C  red onions, diced
  1 C  white mushrooms, rinsed and sliced
  1 C  part-skim shredded mozzarella cheese

Directions

• 1

  Preheat oven to 350 °F.

• 2

  Arrange burger ingredients (tomatoes, red onions, mushrooms, and mozzarella cheese) in separate bowls.

• 3

  Ask each person to select ¼ cup total of his or her choice of ingredients.  (You may have leftover ingredients after this step—keep or freeze for use in other recipes!)

• 4

  Divide ground turkey into four parts on a plate.

• 5

  Ask each person to combine his or her ¼ cup of burger ingredients with one portion of ground turkey and mix well to form a patty ½-inch to ¾-inch thick.

• 6

  Brown burgers on a nonstick pan coated with cooking spray for 2–3 minutes on each side.  Then, transfer burgers to a baking sheet coated with cooking spray and place in the preheated oven for about 10 minutes (to a minimum internal temperature of 165 °F).

• 7

  Assemble burgers on buns, and serve.