I can't get the turkey burgers from Highland Grill off of my mind...even though its been 4 months since I've tasted one & before that, it had been nearly a year. Fresh ground turkey, peanuts, jalapenos, onion, garlic and curry seasonings blended together and topped with pepper jack cheese, poblano pesto aioli and iceberg lettuce on a toasted bun. Mmmmmm! I emailed the owner & used all of my charm to try & pry the recipe out of his fingers to no avail. He did reply, a curt little email saying that they don't give out the recipe, but gave no apology for not wanting to share his secret!
Next, I attempted to find a recipe online...didn't find anything that sounded remotely like it.
So I decided to try & recreate the recipe myself.
I sauteed onions, garlic & jalapeno. Mixed them with ground up peanuts, curry powder & ground turkey. Grilled it with pepper jack cheese. The result? Not so great. Not exactly bad. But not at all what I had been tasting in my mind. It needed more peanuts & less curry powder. Perhaps no curry powder at all, but just some cumin? I have a Mediterranean meatball recipe that, minus the peanuts, has a similar taste that calls for toasted cumin seeds. So I could go that route next time.
To try again or just keep it as a perfect little memory in the tasting part of my mind? Not fully decided.
