Can I treat (frozen) turkey patties like ground turkey?

Here’s an idea. Cook them with onions, peppers, and tomatoes. Using a lot of liquid, and serve them with potatoes..

@Adirondackwannabe it’s not the taste that I don’t care for, it’s the texture. That’s why I thought maybe breaking them up in a recipe might be better. I don’t want to waste them, I plan to eat them, I just don’t really like chewing them. :) Haha.

Yeah I agree with you on the texture. But this makes a nice dish for pork chops too. Do you like Manwich for sloppy joes?

No, I don’t like sloppy joes. Thanks for the chops idea, though.

I have browned frozen turkey patties just like ground turkey and it worked out just fine.

@SuperMouse perfect, thank you!

@DigitalBlue – As have I. It’s just ground turkey meat put into a patty form. Do with them whatever you would do with ground turkey. And let us know what you did!

I did, thank you. I made the chili and it is… okay. There are still some bits that just have a strange texture. I am thinking maybe these particular patties are just crappy.
Oh well, good to know that it’s an option though!

They were probably too compressed to totally save. Sometimes I can “save” a beef patty and return it to it’s ground beef status but I have a hard time with turkey. I even have a hard time if I buy turkey meat in a tube (like you can buy with ground beef)—it comes out in a nasty chunk. I have to buy it where it’s loosely packed in order for the turkey to be any good.

No one has gotten hysterical yet over the turkey version of pink slime, so you get a lot of that in ground turkey. It leads to a leaner healthier product, but it doesn’t do much for the texture.

If you have a food processor, you could probably just thaw some of the patties overnight in the fridge, then throw them in the processor to make them more like the original ground turkey that they started out as. Then make some pasta sauce, or put it into some enchiladas.

@WestRiverrat that makes a lot of sense, actually.