Sweet Potato Turkey Sliders

ANOTHER huge hit at my house.

Sweet potatoes aren’t just a healthier alternative and extremely nutritious, but they’re also DELICIOUS.

I love burgers. Correction, I love TURKEY burgers. I have trouble digesting red meat (beef) and I get really sick. This started about two and a half years ago. It is a blessing in disguise, though. Although it means that I HAVE to eat white/healthier meats, the best part is that I WANT to!

These yummy things are high in protein, low in fat, and significantly lower in carbs than normal sliders.

YOU WILL NEED:

1lb LEAN ground turkey or chicken

3 FAT and ROUND sweet potatoes (the long skinnier shapes won’t be big enough to be “buns”

Baby Spinach leaves or Romaine

1/2 Purple onion

1 yellow onion

3 TBS fish sauce (or salt)

1/2 – 1 TBS ground pepper

Fat-free sharp cheddar cheese slices

DIRECTIONS:

Wash the sweet potatoes and cut them so that you have circles.

These will be the “buns” for your sliders, which means you’ll need an even number of circles.

Chop up the YELLOW onion.

In a big bowl, mix together the fish sauce (or salt,) pepper, yellow onions, and meat.

Take golf-ball sized handfuls and mush together to make “patties”

Aim to make them ‘flatter’ as they will shrink and become more ‘plump’ as they cook.

Slice the PURPLE onion in a way that you’ll have “strips”

These will be cooked in the pan to soften them and added to the sliders as a topping.

In preheated - MEDIUM heat -  non-stick pan (or any pan, as long as you spray it ahead of time with non-stick spray – you already know I love Pam’s Olive Oil spray), cook sweet potato circles until slightly “browned” on both sides. You basically just want to heat them enough to ‘soften’ them up. Set aside.

Take the other serving of sweet potato circles and cook/brown them on BOTH sides. Set aside.

In the same preheated non stick pan, cook the meat patties.  (You may add in EXTRA virgin olive oil to the pan to help prevent sticking and ensure even cooking)

Keep an eye on them.

Make little slits in the middle to check for done-ness. No pink = cooked!

Remove from heat. Immediately, place small portions of the cheese slices so the cheese melts quickly.

Toss in the purple onion “strips” in the pan just long enough to soften them and give them a nice “caramelized” look.

Put the sliders together on the sweet potatoes. Top with the spinach/romaine and cooked purple onions. Use whatever sauce you’d like!

I steer away from ketchup as it his high in sugar.

MUSTARD, however, has ZERO calories!

NOTE: If you used fish sauce to season the patties, you probably wont even need a sauce. The fish sauce makes the patties SUPER tasty on their own!

In joy, enjoy! <3

-JVee