Turkey Sliders with Sweet Potato Buns

I told you guys I would be back soon...and with a recipe! So here I am! 

Recently  I have been doing a lot of research on simple, delicious and affordable recipes that I can convince you people to try and, even more importantly, love! 

That said, this turkey burger (but sliders really) with sweet potato 'bun' definitely hit jackpot and overcame my expectations! They have very few and uncomplicated ingredients (more often than not,  I noticed, clean recipies can have some very weird and hard to find ingredients that you will use once in a lifetime), almost no fat, a lot of protein and a decent amount of good carbs. The fact that they are almost too cute to eat also helps (I'm a girl so I'm allowed to call food cute). 

I got the original recipe from fitmencook.com but tweaked it a bit to fit what I had at home... and made a little happy mistake that was actually quite successful. I have to admit I had little faith in doing a turkey burger with only turkey (no bread crumbs or eggs), I was afraid they would get dry or just fall apart. However, after seeing (and tasting) the results, I have to admit I am now a true believer! :) 

OK, enough talking, let's go to the good stuff! 

Ingredients: 

9 oz Lean ground Turkey
3/4 cup chopped raw mushrooms (feel free to change this for bell-peppers or any other veggie you have handy)
Cumin, Paprika, Chilli powder, salt and pepper
2 Medium Sweet potatoes
50g All natural barbecue sauce
Some arugula

For Burgers
1) Mix the ground turkey, mushrooms and seasoning together in a large bowl. (I also added a bit of the barbecue sauce to the mix here - mainly because I read the original recipe wrong and I thought I had to mix everything together at this point - oops - but it turned out great and I think it helped to keep them moist!)
2) Portion out 1.5 oz servings (should yield aprox. 9 mini burgers). 
3) Grill them in a hot skillet sprayed with coconut oil (my newest addiction) 

For the "buns"
1) Slice your sweet potatoes horizontally, so you are left with 'circular' slices of about an inch thick each. 
2) spray a baking sheet with coconut oil (I mentioned the addiction above) and place your slices in a preheated oven at 405 F for 17-20 min (I flipped mine at around 10 min to get some nice outer crispiness going)

To serve: 
Place a mini burger on top of one of your 'buns', put a bit of sauce on it, some arugula on top, and top it off with another "bun" aaand voila: Sweet potato turkey sliders! 
(I used the tip of the potato for the top 'bun' on the one in the picture to give it more of a bun-y look. )
You can eat 3 of these guilt-free in a meal and get the perfect protein and carb combo you need! Guilt-free and super clean!! If anyone is planning on trying, let me know how it goes~ 

Nutrition fact per slider (recipe yields 9 - I recommend eating 3 if you are making it a meal) 

No-Hunger Games

And the clean eating continues! I am so motivated you guys have no idea! I found so many cool inspirational blogs, instagramers, pinners - you name it - that I am pumped! I don't think I am ever counting calories again and I feel so free! This "clean eating' mentality of reducing processed food, eating nutritious wholesome foods in smaller portions and more often, is extremely compatible with my lifestyle and I honestly think it is working better than any low-cal/ fad diet I've ever tried (ps: I've been getting a lot of questions along the lines of "clean eating?! huh?! what does that mean?" so I'm planning a post on explaining exactly what it is soon, so stay tuned).  Hopefully I will feel even better about this when the results come along - I've got to say I think I see some already (placebo or not, I don't care). 

As long as they are not processed, fake or 'un-clean' - GO FOR IT! 

So last week I decided to go a little wild and try my own Avocado Tuna Salad (recipe below) and it turned out awesome! I encourage you to try it as is or add your own twist - one can never go wrong with avocado (seriously, you just can't). 

This is what my days went like last week (pretty much had the same meals every day for lack of time/ planning): 

Breakfast: Vanilla oatmeal (same from previous post - creativity is not my forte in the morning)

Morning snack: 1/2 cup greek yogurt, 5 blueberries and a dash (and I MEAN a tiny little dash - not the food network definition of "a little olive oil") of honey

Lunch: Tuna avocado salad and a Plum for dessert (which was delicious by the way - is it season yet?)

Afternoon snack(pre-work out): Ripe banana with 1/2 teaspoon of PB (now this is not lach of creativity, I am just obsessed with PB and banana) 

Dinner: Chocolate protein shake (with almond milk - post workout), asparagus, 1/2 cup spinach, 1/4 cup butternut squash puree and 1/2 cup cooked zucchini (OK, creativity failed here again... ) 

Workout highlight of the week: Upper body and Zumba (1hr) - I was lucky enough to finish my workout just in time for Zumba class. I hadn't done zumba in a while and was usually really skeptical that it even really qualified as cardio... but I take all my suspicions back. It IS a workout. I was sweating like... someone who sweats a lot. Not to mention I had a blast - detoxed in every sense!

Oh I love the endorphin high! Do you? 

Tuna Avocado Clean Salad 

I promise it tastes better than it looks in my little bento box 

Ingredients:
1 Tuna pouch (low sodium in water)
1/4 Diced Avocado
1/2 Cup fat free greek yogurt
1/3 cup chopped celery
1 1/2 cup baby greens
1/4 tomato diced
Parsely
Mr. Dash
Lemon juice (I cheated and used the ready made one)
Salt and pepper

Preparation:
Mix the tuna, greek yogurt, celery, avocado and seasoning to taste. Place it over the tomato and baby greens (I added a liiiiiitle bit of olive oil and salt to the greens)


ENJOY! :)

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