Life is a funny creature isn’t it? One day you might be your 12 year old self kissing the posters of Duran Duran goodnight and some years later you might find yourself talking to one of Duran Duran’s wives on twitter and discussing Hallowe’en celebrations.
And that’s what I found myself doing with Julie Anne Rhodes (nickname Jewels), Duran Duran keyboardist Nick Rhodes’s former wife and supermodel turned chef and blogger who is based in Los Angeles where she runs The Roving Stove, a personal chef and catering business. We were introduced on twitter by a mutual friend and we’ve been twitter and blog buddies ever since. Julie Anne is fabulously down to earth and approachable and loves cooking good food with an emphasis on healthy but tasty food.
One of her most well known and lauded recipes is her turkey-jasmine burger that was borne from her 15 year past as a model and her current life as a chef-a turkey burger which uses a low fat white meat like turkey and pairs it exotic but easy to find flavours like ginger, jasmine rice (yes!) and wasabi and a little kick of chilli. The burger is served with a crispy outside and a meltingly moist inside. It was actually the recipe that won her the best poultry burger in the Food Network’s Ultimate Recipe Showdown beating out other entrants using chicken and duck.
I have to admit that turkey is not a meat I cook with often as it isn’t as widespread as it in America but the reviews of the burger (it has 36 reviews and is rated 5 stars) and the fact that it had won best poultry burger meant that I just had to try it. It was really easy and the recipe was perfectly written with just the right balance of flavours to it. And one of Julie Anne’s tips was to make double the amount of burger which once I sank my teeth into the soft bun filled with a gingery, lemon and wasabi mayonnaise and into the juicy patty I immediately wish I had done. If you have kids you can omit the wasabi and chilli and for the first lot I omitted the wasabi. And the next thing I did after finishing my burger? I went to the shops to buy another lot of turkey mince to make more of them.
Now I try not to get too pushy (ok that’s an outright lie, I am pushy and small) but I have to insist Dearest Darlingest Reader that you try this burger. I think that you will swoon as much as I did.
So tell me Dear Reader, who was your teen idol? And did you ever kiss their posters?
Jewel’s Juicy Turkey Jasmine Burger
Recipe by Julie Anne Rhodes
Cucumber salad
- 2x Lebanese cucumbers, peeled and thinly sliced into rounds
- 1/2 red onion, thinly sliced
- 1/4 cup rice vinegar
- 1/8 cup sugar
- 1 teaspoon salt
Burger patty:
- 600g/1 1/4 pounds ground turkey
- 1/3 cup steamed jasmine rice
- 1/4 cup panko breadcrumbs
- 1/4 cup thinly sliced green onions
- 1 large egg
- 1/2 teaspoon sesame oil
- 1 tablespoon soy sauce
- 1 Thai chili or serrano chili, seeded and minced
- 1 teaspoon sugar
- Salt and freshly ground black pepper
- 1 tablespoon peanut oil
- 4 sesame hamburger buns
Wasabi mayonnaise:
- 1/2 cup homemade mayonnaise or store-bought
- 1 teaspoon wasabi powder
- 1/2 teaspoon minced ginger
- 1 teaspoon finely chopped lemon peel
Buyer’s tip: panko breadcrumbs can be found at Asian specialty stores and most supermarkets in the Asian cookery aisle
Directions:
1. For cucumber salad: toss cucumbers, onions, rice vinegar, sugar, and salt in a medium sized bowl. Let it marinate at room temperature for 1 hour.
2. For burger patty: mix ground turkey, rice, panko breadcrumbs, green onions, egg, sesame oil, soy sauce, chili and sugar very well. Make into 4 patties. Season with salt and pepper.
3. Heat peanut oil in a large skillet over medium-high heat. Saute burgers until cooked through, approximately 5 to 6 minutes per side (depending on how thick you make them). Make sure that they are cooked all the way through.
4. For wasabi mayonnaise: while burgers are cooking, toast buns, and mix mayonnaise with wasabi powder, ginger, and lemon peel in a small bowl.
Yes I know, that’s a lot of mayonnaise but I love the stuff. Don’t get all Pulp Fiction on me…
5. To assemble: Drain cucumber salad well. Spread 1 tablespoon of wasabi mayonnaise on toasted bun halves, spread with a layer of drained cucumber salad, then top with burger and cover with bun top.
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I never thought of using minced Turkey for a patty in a burger! But it definitely sounds and looks like a healthier version than the patties made with beef
I promise to make this burger once I get back in Melbourne and in my own kitchen again hehe
Hmmm….my teen idol….i had too many…but one of them would have to be Leonardo Di Caprio HAHAHA After watching Titanic that was it
gosh that looks deliciously healthy
That looks sooo delish!
Now that’s a clever thing to do with leftover rice! Looks moist and delicious, Lorraine!
It looks mighty scrumptious! Great flavors and patties.
Cheers,
Rosa
I was a Duran Duran fan as well. But, that’s not the reason I’ll be making this burger. It looks fantastic! And, I love turkey burgers. Can’t wait to try it.
I would dearly love to eat that burger Lorraine, if I wasn’t on this damned low carb diet! It looks so succulent!
what a tasty burger variety!
Thanks for the panko bread tip I was just wondering the other day. I used to buy turkey mince and haven’t for a while, must rectify that and try out this recipe
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This sounds really good. I often see Turkey mince in the supermarket but really didn’t know what to do with it. GG
I’m SO honored, and thrilled you like the turkey burger enough to write about it! The part you left out was about what a big fan of YOURS I am.
Just a quick tip for everyone – they are slightly labor intensive, so I double or even triple the recipe, wrap the uncooked burgers individually and freeze. Then I can just defrost and pull it all together easily and quickly when I want them (salad and mayo whip up quickly while the burgers are cooking).
The burger looks delicious! Never would have thought of putting jasmin rice in a turkey patty
Yum! I love turkey mince! It’s so versatile. I would have added the same amount of mayo as you as I too love the stuff . I didn’t really have a teen idol
yummy what a good idea most chicken/turkey burgers are a bit dry this looks terrific.
What a great combination of flavours, I’m definitely going to try this recipe. Reading about Turkey burgers immediately reminded me my experience earlier this year with the Inghams Turkey burger competition where I was placed in the top 5. Unfortunately, did not win but had a great time taking part and enjoying my 5 minutes of fame!lol
Paul McCartney, now that’s showing my age haha
This looks deeeeelish! :>
This burger just screams that we try it Lorraine, it has flavour! We love cooking with turkey because it is much lower fat. My teen idols are from the 70′s:The Bay City Rollers and Sean Cassidy.
They sound really really good. I have no problem finding Panko at most supermarkets, however where does one find wasabi powder? Is it in the spice section?
Yum. Never thought of using turkey! Flavours sound great.
I love this burger! I spent a year in America and ate a lot of turkey – low fat and carries flavours well.
If you like this type of burger you really need to try my Chilli Rice Burger with Mango Salsa. It’s made with pork or chicken but you could just as easily use turkey. It’s one of the best burgers that I’ve had, but I haven’t tasted Jewel’s yet!
http://moodiefoodie.com.au/index.php/recipe/details/hangover/171
Hi Mellemoo-you can use fresh wasabi or tube wasabi if you can’t access wasabi powder
your burgers look very very edible..i cook with turkey quite a bit but i avoid the cuts available in the supermarkets that have been enhanced with numbers..but i buy the drum sticks for soups and theyre also good for winter casseroles..
i tried to have an idol but i never could get worked up about anyone..but i did really like a boy who lived near me who played the guitar..does that count?
Looks amazing Lorraine! Going to check out Jewels blog now!
One of the biggest problems with turkey is that it is dry and not very interesting. This recipe has plenty of added flavours to boost the taste – I might have to give it a try.
Oh, I think I had a fair few teen idols, but my first real, intense celebrity crush was Russell Crowe after watching Gladiators. I know, I know… but he was so good back then…
They look delish!
Donnie from New Kids on the Block got lots of poster-kissing from me. Now to convince someone to come to their concert with me in May
Well, I will give this a try but only because you said so NQN. Only because my kids aren’t big turkey – or even chicken mince – fans. And can always tell when I’ve used it.
As for teenage idols, I always loved Sting, Duran Duran, the Models (good Aussie band), and probably too many to remember.
I will make this beauty tonight, I always do what I’m told.
omg. duran duran. i recently discovered them via girl panic. so in love with them. T____T
Fabulous! Will definitely be making these
While have to admit…turkey and burger, don’t use in the same sentence, TRUE!
) inspires me to try and do!
But this recipe (and photo
David Cassidy, had a BIG BIG crush on, TRUE!
HOW he used to smile and sing to me everyday after I kissed his poster too! lol WHOO HOO!
We don’t eat enough turkey in Australia, I love it and will definitely be trying these burgers.
I agree with Nic on loving Donnie from NKOTB, and I am going by myself to their Melbourne concert in May, very excited!
Looks so Gooood!
Yum this looks fabulous Lorraine.
I’ll be making mini turkey burgers for the kids….they would also work well as cocktail food in a mini version….I was dancing to Duran Duran during my Uni years so when I was 12 the cool girls loved Bay City Rollers and KISS (!) but I have to admit I was “uncool” and I loved….ABBA ;-O
(and I still do
PS Eva has just reminded me….I did have a crush on Sean Cassidy too
What a great sounding recipe. I adore wasabi, and it sounds like all the flavours team up so well, yumm…
I wasn’t really into bands in my teens, but I had a Gonzo poster. On my wall hand some of the Muppet music on cassette tape- does that count?
Thank you for another flavour combo to add to my turkey/chicken mince burger repertoire – sounds delicioUs! We often use the leaner minces in burgers, I find them really tasty
This actually looks and sounds delicious. as you know I’m hunting for the best burger in sydney and perhaps it’s on your blog!!
Love to use turkey mince and the best place to buy is a factory outlet just 7km down the road
! Great recipe, a little different as to how I have prepared it before, so can’t wait to try! Thanks JA Rhodes for the tip of making a whole big batch and freezing some for later: how convenient for Christmas! Wonderful! Since all my teen idols came from the world of opera [still do!], I better not bore the others . . . Don’t quite remember kissing one of their pics . . . 
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I am sold! My teen idol was Michael J Fox, but I never kissed his posters.
oh duran duran – that brings back the memories – more on my friends’ folders than mine but I did enjoy seeing them on countdown – I didn’t kiss photos but my sister was a Wham fanatic so we spent hours in KMart watching their videos in the days when you just didn’t have dvds and internet vids on tap! Ahem probably enough about that – the burgers sounds interesting – while turkey is not for me I would love the other flavours in a veg burger
my kind of burger!!!!
I am thinking turkey banh mi for christmas!!
oh yeah I am so going to stuff this in a baguette
I am also thinking turkey kofta …on skewers …etc
Oh, and my bedroom has tv week posters of Ted Mulry, Darryl Braithwaite, and Roger from YTT (no Jamie Redfern though). Then we move to HUSH era, the whole band! Hi Les.
I know you are so jealous.
70′s teen.
Gads, you know everyone! LOL
You not only get the gift of friendship but a killer burger recipe, too. Man, I gotta start tweeting more to the right people.
Dear Lorraine,
I will definitely not complain if there is too much mayo in my burger. In fact, I find the best sauce combo that makes a burger great is actually mayo and Lingham chilli sauce.
LOL I totally kissed my posters!!! Haha! Love the sound of this burger! The flavours sound fab!
Although I can’t eat wasabi, I know a lot of people love wasabi mayo. I love this light burger.
My teen idol was all the members from take that. Im sure I kissed many a cd cover
This recipe looks great! Just what I feel like right now actually 
I’ve never used turkey mince before, I really want to though. Major inspiration now!
Heidi xo
I did a double-take when I saw there was rice in the burger patty! What a notion – but it looks really delicious.
As for kissing posters as a kid, I confess that I practically wallpapered my bedroom with Johnny Depp posters. :p
YUM This sounds delicious I think I will skip the baked dinner and go straight for a turkey burger
I was a teen when the Beatles and Rolling Stones were around, so any one of those boys would have done for me. Now those who are left are old.
I love the idea of adding rice to the patty and I think the burger is definitely one to try.
It’s funny, I spent years working for Steggles and pushing turkey, but even thought I pushed the bird, I am still a very infrequent consumer. Very available in your local supermarket, but I will still reach for chicken.
Yummmmmo, I’ve used Turkey mince quite a bit before so i’ll be sure to give this recipe a try, the combo of flavours sounds delish!
I did have a poster of Chris O’donnell in his “boy wonder” outfit…thought it we pretty dreamy….ended up marrying a guy that looked like him too haha…I’m certainly no cat woman tho
I don’t really remember having a teen idol but I did have a life-sized cardboard cutout of Brad Pitt. Oh so pretty.
A low fat burger!!! Argh! Definitely trying this one, just in time for Summer healthy eating
If a turkey burger promises to be juicy, it’s a winner. They can often be dry, but if you add just the right ingredients, they maintain a great taste!
I had a big crush on Johnny Depp, but no, there was no kissing of posters LOL. I would however, like to kiss this burger, and then gobble it up.
*kisses* HH
I was probably one of a few teenagers without any posters on the walls… Having said that, this is one deliciously looking burger!!!
WHAM! were mine, adored George Michael!
Never was a Durannie…..funny considering most of my friends were…..
Not to much time ago I started looking product made with turkey, like burguers and sausage, and I found it a very healthy as turkey has less fat than other kind of meat.
Ohhh, these look delicious. I’ll definitely have to put these on my list of things to make. Turkey is very popular over here in Germany, I usually find that it’s cheaper and better quality than chicken. I’ll have to start converting my family when I move back home!
That is truly a masterpiece of a burger! Looks so juicy and flavorful…jasmine rice is a really brilliant addition. Mmm, it’s too long since I’ve had a good burger!
I am definitely going to try this!!!
It’s funny as I was just looking at a different turkey mince recipe…. Might try both!
Burgers made and devoured. I can confirm that they are delicious and very juicy. I rolled the remainder into just bigger than bite sized balls and they will make a wonderful party piece with the wasabi mayo to dip. Thanks for sharing!
But turkey is so expensive in Oz! That does look great though. May need to bite the turkey bullet.
And I didn’t have a teen idol, but my wife had pictures of Morton Harket from A-Ha all over her walls, and has read John Taylor’s biography about a dozen times. So yeah.
Delicious!!!!
I make chicken burgers, but this turkey baby looks really good and juicy…
See that’s the issue with using white meat, if not cooked properly it can dry up. But this looks so well made…
Yummm…
it almost seems unfair that someone could be a supermodel as well as a great recipe-maker. sigh. i shall drown my sorrows in a burger of my own.
I make turkey burgers for my boyfriend’s packed lunch as he wants to get as much protein into his diet as possible
These ones look much better though so definitely going to try the recipe, thank you!
You have certainy convinced me that I must try this burger. It looks so juicy and fantastic!
Let’s see…when I was young my heartthrobs were Paul McCartney and Davy Jones:)
hmm i love my moo burgers but I guess if there is a healthy alternative…it’s not a bad thing to try! looks yum!
What a great recipe for this time of year… the one time we do see turkey readily on the shelf.
You are keeping so topical too as only today I noticed a burger place here and a burger place there. This recipe will put all the others to shame.
OK i’ll confess that I
What a great recipe for this time of year… the one time we do see turkey readily on the shelf.
You are keeping so topical too as only today I noticed a burger place here and a burger place there. This recipe will put all the others to shame.
OK I’ll confess that I was a Michael Jackson fan back in the day… and had an eerie farewell as I experienced a foreboding dream before all the news hit and still gives me goosebumps as I write to you now. Sorry about the duplication I have a dodgey laptop hand me down from my daughter.
I am definitely trying this. And, uhm, I will admit I was partial to Nick if I have to…don’t tell your friend ;o)
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