Click here for a printable PDF recipe card Breakfast Turkey Patties

My husband and I typically spend an hour out of our Sunday afternoons doing food prep for the coming week.  This includes breakfast, lunch, and snacks for the work week.  One of Hubby’s weekly breakfast items include these turkey patties.  It came about because we were looking for a lean protein to go with his breakfast and every sausage patty option in the stores were loaded with, well, I don’t even know how to pronounce or spell half of them. So this is what I came up with.  It’s cheap and easy to make and it’s loaded with flavor!  And I take a few short cuts during preparing and cooking that will save you from washing unneeded dishes 😉

Here’s the ingredients: lean ground turkey, salt, garlic powder, onion powder, crushed red pepper flakes, rubbed sage, and chipotle chile pepper.

Make sure you’re using chipotle chile pepper!  Very different from chili powder!  It’s a little pricey but it has an amazing smoky flavor, a little goes a long way, and I have more recipes that call for it.  So make the investment 😉

The spiciness is not overwhelming, but you can adjust if you’re a lightweight 🙂

Here’s one of my dishwashing-saving tips…just remove the absorbing pad from the styrofoam and mix the meat and seasoning in the packaging it came.  Why create more dishes to wash??

  Now it’s time to get your hands dirty!  Combine the seasonings into the turkey.

I use a large melon baller (or use an ice cream scoop) to equally divide up the seasoned turkey.  I got 12 out of the pound of turkey.

Using your hands roll then flatten them out into patties.  It doesn’t need to be pretty or perfectly shaped patties.  It’s all about the flavor!

I choose to grill them for lots of reasons…1) it saves on washing dishes 🙂 2) it saves on having to clean the stove 🙂 3) it eliminates heating up the kitchen with the stove and  4) I just think grilled meat taste better!

The patties are small so they don’t take very long to cook.  About 2 1/2 minutes per side.

And there you have it! Breakfast turkey patties….

Click here for a printable PDF recipe card Breakfast Turkey Patties