12 Healthy Burger Recipes
If you are looking for inspiring healthy recipes for burgers to make for grilling season or to mix up family burger night then check out this collection of healthy, juicy and delicious burgers! From vegetarian bean burgers, and hamburgers made with beef and mushroom to grain-free burger bowls!
Burger night doesn’t have to be the same old hamburger beef patty on a bun anymore! Check out the burgers below and try one of these recipes tonight!
Tips For Making The Best Healthy Burgers
- Blend veggies into your meat of choice for added nutrition and to bulk up serving size.
- Try plant based burger options instead of meat, such as homemade bean burgers or a meat alternative like Beyond Beef.
- Try cooking the burgers on the grill or oven without added fat to reduce the calories and fat.
- Skip the cheese and add flavorful lower calorie ingredients like herbs and spices and condiments such as pickled onions or homemade ketchup to boost the flavor of your burgers for less calories and saturated fat.
- Skip the high calorie and fat side dishes and serve your burger with healthier side dishes such as Healthy Coleslaw or Baked Oven Fries. Try with Baked Sweet Potatoes instead or baked russets for more vitamins and nutrients. We have more healthy side dishes ideas below!
Fore more tips and great recipes check out these 12 healthy burger recipes below!
This easy vegetarian Chickpea Burger has falafel flavors and a delicious creamy lemon tahini sauce. The addition of brown rice gives the mashed chickpeas great texture. They even freeze well!
These easy-to-make vegetarian burgers have juicy and meaty roasted portobello mushrooms instead of a beef patty. Classic burger toppings and sauce give them all the traditional flavors!
Burgers made from ground chicken, seasoned with za’atar and topped with cucumber mint tzatziki, lettuce and tomato! Get those grills fired up my friends! They’re a middle-eastern flavored burger mash-up you won’t want to miss.
These Portobello and Swiss Beef Burgers are made with ground grass-fed beef studded with shredded Swiss Cheese and chopped portobello mushrooms. They’re ready in under 30 minutes, so you can get a delicious kid-friendly dinner on the table lickety-split!
Juicy and flavorful Turkey Burgers with 5 simple ingredients. Sumptuously moist, smack-your-lips and the best turkey burger recipe on the web! Serve them with Grilled Corn and Chickpea Salad or German Potato Salad.
I am telling you my friends, these Southwest Bean Burgers are in a league of their own. They are savory and tender patties of goodness that will satisfy all of your vegetarian comfort food cravings!
Cooking Hamburgers in the Oven is EASY: And may leave you never wanting to make them any other way! This recipe with the "melt-in-your-mouth" trick that makes all the difference!
Looking for a change from plain ol’ hamburgers? Then try Guacamole Burgers. Simply put, burger meat topped off with homemade guacamole in between two burger buns. I served them with a side of roasted sweet potatoes but any side dish would work. This is a great weeknight dish that you can put together in about 30 minutes.
These Burger Bowls have all the yummy flavors of hamburgers, including lettuce, tomato, onion and pickles but without the bun. Instead they are layered into bowls on top of cauliflower rice for a lower carb meal option. The Thousand Island dressing makes them irresistible!
These homemade vegetarian black bean burgers are the best I have ever made. The basil green tea aioli is garlicky and adds lots of flavor to these meatless burgers!
Never have a dry salmon burger again! Thanks to a few simple tips, you can make super JUICY, flavor-packed salmon burgers every single time! These have a Mediterranean twist because they are made with fresh herbs, spices and a splash of lemon juice. Serve them with arugula, tomatoes and homemade Tzatziki.
Delicious juicy Garlic Herb Grilled Lamb Burgers are a must-make recipe for this grilling season! Try the whipped feta spread on your burger buns and load them up with crunchy cucumbers, fresh tomatoes and thinly sliced onion.
Healthy Side Dishes To Serve With Burgers
Some of our favorite side dishes to serve with these healthy burger recipes are classic cookout side dishes. Here are a few ideas. You can search all our side dishes here.
- This Mexican Bean Salad with creamy avocado dressing is popping with flavor.
- Another avocado dressing winner is this Vegan Chickpea Salad.
- Our Mediterranean Quinoa Salad, this Mediterranean Black Lentil Salad and this Mediterranean Barley Salad are two options for burgers with an Italian or Greek flair.
- For burgers with a Middle Eastern or North African flavor profile, you could try our Israeli Couscous Salad or this recipe for Moroccan Carrots.
- This maple German Potato Salad is healthier than most but still tangy and delicious.
- Our Asian Coleslaw and this Corn Salad with Mexican Flavors are two more healthy (vegan) options.
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12 Healthy Burger Recipes
- Total Time: 40 minutes
- Yield: 4 Burgers and 1 cup onions 1x
Description
If you are looking for inspiring burger recipes, then check out this collection of healthy, juicy and delicious burgers! Our easy grilled Healthy Turkey Burger with Fontina and Maple Pickled Onions comes from my cookbook: Maple, 100 Sweet and Savory Recipes Featuring Pure Maple Syrup {2015, Quirk Books.} Serve these burgers with oven fries for a delicious and healthy twist on burger night!
Ingredients
1/2 cup red wine vinegar
1/4 cup dark maple syrup
1 tablespoon pickling spice* see ingredient note
1 teaspoon salt, divided
Freshly ground pepper to taste
1 small red onion, peeled and very thinly sliced, preferably with a mandolin
1 pound lean ground turkey meat
2 ounces shredded Fontina cheese, about 1/2 cup
4 burger buns, preferably whole-wheat, toasted if desired
4 leaves green leaf lettuce
Instructions
- Stir vinegar, syrup, pickling spice, ¾ teaspoon salt and pepper in a small saucepan. Bring to a simmer over high heat and boil 2 minutes, stirring often.
- Place onion in a medium heat-proof bowl or measuring cup. Strain the hot vinegar mixture through a fine-mesh sieve over the onions, and toss with a fork. Discard the solids from the sieve. Let onions cool in the pickling liquid until room temperature, stirring every once in a while, about 30 minutes.
- Meanwhile preheat grill to medium-high heat. Form turkey into 4 thin patties. Sprinkle both sides with the remaining ¼ teaspoon salt and pepper. Oil grill rack and immediately add burgers. Cook until cooked about half way, 4 to 5 minutes. Turn over, divide Fontina among the burgers and continue cooking until cooked through and no longer pink in the center, 4 to 5 minutes longer. Serve burgers on buns with lettuce. Top with the onions.
Notes
*Ingredient note: Pickling spice is a blend of sweet and spicy whole dried spices used in pickles and many canning recipes. Blends vary by brand but they often include whole allspice berries, bay leaf and mustard seeds. Find pickling spice in the spice section of large supermarkets or the bulk section of health food stores.
- Prep Time: 20 minutes
- Cook Time: 25 minutes
- Category: Main Course
- Method: Grilling
- Cuisine: American
Nutrition
- Serving Size: 1 burger, 1/4 cup onion
- Calories: 341
- Fat: 14 g
- Saturated Fat: 6 g
- Carbohydrates: 25 g
- Fiber: 2 g
- Protein: 29 g
What an amazing list of burgers. From the chicken burger to the salmon Mediterranean one, they all look marvelous.
Obsessed with this collection! Starting with the burger bowls first. Yummm!
Burgers are my weakness, so I’m thrilled to have found a way to make them healthier! Thanks so much for sharing!
What incredible choice here. The mushroom burgers sound amazing.