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    Home » Recipes » Sandwich

    Baked Turkey Burgers

    By: Jessica · Posted: Feb 21, 2021 · Updated: Jan 15, 2025 · This post may contain affiliate links. Please read my disclosure policy.

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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

    Pre-Made Turkey Burgers

    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!

    turkey bacon in skillet

    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.

    Crispy turkey bacon

    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.

    Cooked turkey burgers in white baking dish
    Sliced cheese on top of turkey burgers in baking dish

    Once the cheese has melted, remove your baking dish from the oven and top your burger with what you desire!

    Cheese melted on to burgers, ready to eat
    Placing cheese turkey burger on bun

    Like, turkey bacon…

    Add turkey bacon to burger

    tomato…

    Baked turkey club burger with bacon and tomato

    leaf lettuce…

    Bacon lettuce and tomato turkey club burger

    fiesta mayo (or similar sauce)…

    Fiesta Mayo on a baked turkey burger

    then top with a brioche bun, and enjoy!

    Baked Turkey Burgers

    …and I mean it, I have a feeling that you WILL enjoy these as much as we did!

    Baked turkey burger - sliced in half!

    What to Serve with Turkey Burgers

    Side dishes for turkey burgers are similar to those that are great with ground beef burgers. Here are my favorite side dishes for turkey burgers:

    • side salad on white plate drizzled with ranch
      The BEST Side Salad Recipe
    • close up of bacon ranch pasta salad in gray bowl
      Easy Bacon Ranch Pasta Salad
    • Close up of red skin potato salad in white bowl, with wooden spoon.
      Easy Red Skin Potato Salad
    • Close up of cooked carrots covered in a butter brown sugar glaze and garnished with fresh parsley
      Candied Carrots

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    If you loved making this recipe in the oven, then you’ll also love these hot ham and cheese sandwiches or these favorites:

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    Recipe

    Baked turkey burger on bun with lettuce, tomato, cheese and fiesta mayo.

    Baked Turkey Burgers Recipe

    Jessica Burgess
    Baked Turkey Burgers – Cooking turkey burgers in the oven is EASY! It locks in juices and there's less mess!
    4.93 from 26 votes
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    Prep Time 10 minutes mins
    Cook Time 35 minutes mins
    Total Time 45 minutes mins
    Course Main Course
    Cuisine American
    Servings 4 people
    Calories 871 kcal

    Ingredients

    • 4 Turkey Patties or 1 pound ground turkey, formed in to 4 patties plain or choice of flavored
    • salt to taste
    • pepper to taste
    • 4 slices cheese I used “brick cheese”
    • 4 brioche or hamburger buns
    • 4 slices tomato
    • 4 lettuce leaves
    • 4 slices bacon
    • 4 tablespoons fiesta mayo recipe in post, or choice of sauce

    Instructions
     

    • Begin by preheating your oven to 375 degrees.
    • Line a baking dish (big enough to fit 4 turkey patties without touching) with olive oil
    • Season both sides of turkey patties with salt and pepper if you wish, and place them in baking dish. Bake for 30 minutes.
    • White turkey patties are baking, fry your turkey bacon in a skillet. See above for tips for frying bacon!
    • This is also a good time to mix up your fiesta mayo (or other condiment/sauce you wish to make). 
    • When turkey burgers have reached 30 minutes, the internal temperature of each burger should be 165 degrees, before consuming.
    • If turkey burgers are to 165, place one slice of cheese on each burger and place back in the oven for seconds (or a few minutes) to allow the cheese to melt.
    • Remove burgers from oven and build turkey club by stacking on a brioche bun, bacon, lettuce, tomato and fiesta mayo! Enjoy!

    Notes

    You can use pre-pattied burgers or patty out your own! For 4 burgers, you’ll need at least 1 pound of ground turkey.
    Feel free to use pre-seasoned or regular turkey burgers for this recipe.

    Nutrition

    Serving: 4people | Calories: 871kcal | Carbohydrates: 41g | Protein: 49g | Fat: 54g | Saturated Fat: 22g | Cholesterol: 300mg | Sodium: 1108mg | Potassium: 193mg | Sugar: 1g | Vitamin A: 3135IU | Vitamin C: 8mg | Calcium: 288mg | Iron: 3.1mg

    Nutritional information is based on third-party calculations and should be considered estimates. Actual nutritional content will vary with brands used, measuring methods, portion sizes and more.

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    1. Natasha says

      February 23, 2021 at 7:59 pm

      5 stars
      Love the healthy alternatives provided in this recipe. Tried it and everyone loved it. It is so delicious, my family enjoyed these burgers!

      Reply
      • Jessica says

        February 23, 2021 at 10:48 pm

        Oh yay! That’s great news Natasha! Thank you so much for sharing!

        Reply
    2. Trang says

      February 23, 2021 at 11:20 am

      5 stars
      I love that the recipe has spinach and kale in the patties to sneak in some veggies! My doesn’t even notice. Maybe because he’s too excited about the turkey bacon add-on? LOL. Great healthy dinner recipe that doesn’t require a grill!

      Reply
      • Jessica says

        February 23, 2021 at 6:12 pm

        Haha for sure!! Thank you so much! I hope they become a weekly staple! 🙂

        Reply
    3. Katie says

      February 23, 2021 at 10:46 am

      5 stars
      Love that this is a healthy alternative made in the oven!

      Reply
    4. Jennifer Hewes says

      September 24, 2020 at 1:50 pm

      Do you thaw the pre-made frozen turkey patties or bake from frozen?

      Reply
      • Jessica says

        September 25, 2020 at 7:59 pm

        This recipe is meant for burgers that are thawed! But I’d bet they could bake just fine without being thawed… it would just take a little longer!

        Reply
    5. Hannah Flack says

      March 17, 2020 at 4:25 am

      5 stars
      Thank you for the great recipes! There are so many to choose from and now I have to see which one or ones I want to try first. Thank you!

      Reply

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