Nobody is forming patties at eight at night.
A pound and a quarter of ground turkey with garlic powder, onion powder, and salt, cooked loose in a skillet until it is done through. No shaping, no flipping, no burger falling apart on the spatula.
Rice on the bottom, turkey over it, then everything cold: shredded lettuce, diced tomato, dill pickle slices, and the sauce you stirred together at four out of mayo, ketchup, and relish.
Ingredients
The recipe serves 4. Plan on 12 minutes (rice cooked earlier).
- 1 1/4 pounds ground turkey
- 1 teaspoon garlic powder
- 1 teaspoon onion powder
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 4 cups cooked rice
- 1 cup shredded lettuce
- 1 cup diced tomato
- 1/2 cup dill pickle slices
- 1/2 cup burger sauce (mayo, ketchup, and relish stirred together)
How to Make It
- Mix the ground turkey with the garlic powder, onion powder, and salt, then cook it crumbled in a skillet over medium-high until it reaches 165F.
- Warm the rice if it is cold.
- Build each bowl with rice on the bottom, then the seasoned turkey.
- Top with lettuce, tomato, pickles, and a generous drizzle of burger sauce.
Do the Slow Part Early
Cook the rice ahead and stir together the burger sauce so the after-practice work is just browning the turkey and building bowls. Everything cold goes on at the end.
- Cook the rice in the morning or use microwave rice
- Stir together the burger sauce and refrigerate it
- Dice the tomato and prep the toppings into bowls ahead
Store and Reheat
Reheat only the turkey and rice and keep the cold toppings fresh. The sauce and pickles go on after, never in the microwave.
- Microwave the turkey and rice together 2 minutes with a splash of water
- Add lettuce, tomato, pickles, and sauce after reheating
- Cooked turkey keeps 3 days in the fridge
- Serve with: sweet potato fries, apple slices
Parent Tip
A squeeze of yellow mustard in the burger sauce makes it taste exactly like a drive-thru burger.
Make it fit tonight
Small changes that make this one fit your night
A squeeze of yellow mustard
Add it to the sauce and it tastes exactly like the drive-thru you skipped.
Pickles are load-bearing
The vinegar is what makes crumbled turkey read as a burger and not taco meat.
Sweet potato fries
A tray from the freezer bakes while the turkey cooks and finishes the plate.
Sauce goes on last
Never microwave the mayo or the pickles; both go on after the bowl is warm.
Mix the sauce fresh
Cooked turkey holds three days, but the sauce takes forty seconds to remake.
Plan the next step
Plan your fast-food-at-home nights
Use the planner to keep rice and burger sauce ready for quick bowl dinners.