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Baked Turkey Burgers – Cooking turkey burgers in the oven is EASY! It locks in juices and there’s less mess!

Baked Turkey Burgers on bun with lettuce and tomato and turkey bacon

Have a package of ground turkey for burgers? Consider making burger sliders, using ground turkey instead!

Why You’ll Love These:

This recipe is incredibly easy and I even give you a quick fun flavored mayo recipe to top it with! Or, if you own an air fryer, you may want to also consider trying these air fryer turkey burgers to see which recipe you prefer!

You can find the full recipe card below with more details on how to whip up this “gourmet” tasting burger, that doesn’t require a gourmet chef at all!

You’ll Also Love these Oven-Baked Hamburgers, these Air Fryer Burgers, Smoked Burgers, and these electric skillet burgers.

Plain Ground Turkey or Pre-Pattied Seasoned

For this turkey burger recipe, I wanted to keep things super simple, so I used a pre-pattied ground turkey burger that included spinach and kale.

But you can absolutely use regular ground turkey for this! However, it’s a lot of fun to mix things up from time to time, just to add some different flavors to the mix!

Making Your Own Patties: If you’re making your own turkey patties, you can add the seasoning right into the ground turkey before making your patties, but I find that waiting until after I patty them out, I can taste the flavors a LOT more. But whichever way you prefer to season them is just fine!

Pre-Pattied Burgers: I love the turkey burgers (and any burgers really) that come with paper liners, because it makes separating the patties for easy seasoning and less mess. Here’s how I do it…

Step by Step Directions

For the turkey burgers, I wanted to allow the toppings and the fiesta mayo (recipe below) to season the burgers in a BIG way.

So for seasoning, I kept it simple and just used salt and pepper! (My favorites… kosher salt and peppercorn medley.)

If you’re using plain ground turkey, I feel that adding salt and pepper is a MUST. Some other additional seasonings I recommend for turkey burgers are:

garlic powder
garlic pepper
a mixture of basil, oregano, parsley
onion powder
cumin
red pepper flakes

… there are many others you can experiment with, but just keep in mind what seasonings you’re using, so you don’t overpower the burger if you use a sauce like my fiesta mayo recipe below!

Grilled or Skillet Cooking

You can absolutely cook your turkey burgers in a skillet or grill them. I prefer the oven-baked method to cut down on the mess in my kitchen, and when it’s too cold outside to grill. But feel free to cook them how you like!

So let’s get to what I now call, the “BEST Turkey Burger Recipe“… the Turkey Club Burger. I’ll walk you through the recipe with photos in case you’re a visual person, but feel free to jump to the bottom of the post where I provided a recipe card that you can print and follow the directions in one spot!

How to Make

You’ll want to start by preheating your oven to 375 degrees and lining a baking dish with a drizzle of olive oil. (Approximately 1 tablespoon.)

Seasoned burgers stacked on paper liners

Season the top of a burger with salt and pepper or desired seasonings (if you wish), grab the paper liner, and flip the burger over on to the baking dish. Peel the paper off and season the other side.

Turkey burger placed facedown, using the paper liner for a clean release

Work your way through the other patties in the same way.

The paper helps keep my hands cleaner while handling raw meat!

Turkey burgers in white baking dish, seasoned and ready for the oven

How Long to Cook Turkey Burgers in the Oven

Pop the baking dish with turkey patties into the preheated 375° oven and bake for 30 minutes, until it reaches an internal temperature of 165 degrees. We do this a lot for our hamburger recipes, and even use this method for our ground venison burgers!

How to Cook Turkey Bacon

One of my favorite ways to cook turkey bacon is in the skillet because of “how” I cook it.

My boys prefer crispy bacon, and with turkey bacon tending to lay flat, I like to form it while it’s cooking to give it the texture that my boys are used to. You can also bake turkey bacon in the oven!

How to Make Turkey Bacon Crispy

If cooking in a pan, I start by spraying my skillet with cooking spray and then line the skillet with a few pieces of turkey bacon. Then, flipping the bacon often will help crisp it up.

Fun trick for frying turkey bacon to make it look like regular bacon - manually curl up bacon

However, while it’s cooking and I’m flipping, I’ll also “pinch” the bacon with my tongs so it will mimic the bacon texture they’re used to.

We’re big texture people here if you haven’t guessed.

After the bacon is finished cooking, and the turkey patties are still baking, this a great time to mix up your fiesta mayo, or any sauce like this chipotle aioli that you plan on serving on your turkey burger club!

Fiesta Mayo - Hidden Valley Ranch Mix with mayo

Fiesta Mayo Recipe

Using a 12 ounce container of mayo and half a packet of Hidden Valley Fiesta Ranch Dips Mix (or similar dressing mix), mix the two together and you have a flavor of a mayo that will knock your socks off.
(Note, this will create more than you need for this recipe, so feel free to make a smaller batch.)

TIP: If you LOVE having a sauce like this on hand, feel free to use a 30 oz. container of mayo and a full packet of the dressing mix.

Fiesta Mayo Recipe mixed together in small bowl

Topping Ideas for Baked Turkey Burgers

For this baked turkey club burger recipe, I’m using toppings like the bacon that you saw above, and the following extras:

brick cheese
tomatoes
leaf lettuce
fiesta mayo
brioche buns

Ingredients for baked turkey burger club

Once the burgers have baked for 30 minutes, pull the burgers out of the oven and top each turkey burger with a slice of cheese, and place the baking dish back in the oven for just seconds to allow the cheese to melt.