Who’s in the mood for some Italian? If you are a fan of supreme pizza you will love the taste of this open-faced pizza sandwich. Italian turkey burgers on top of garlic toast with sauce and melted cheese. Yum!
Make it your own.
Feel free to make this one your own. I used green bell pepper and onion but you can add and subtract ingredients as you see fit. Do you like pepperoni and mushrooms on your pizza? Go ahead and add chopped up pepperoni and mushrooms to the turkey burgers before you cook them. Don’t like onions and bell pepper? Leave those ingredients out. If you are counting smart points and you add pepperoni make sure to figure out the points and divide it by the number of sandwiches you make.
Lower the smart points per serving.
Do you need to lower the smart points? This tastes delicious with or without the Texas toast. Consider this slimming idea: Leave out the Texas toast and divide the turkey patties into five patties instead of eight. Each of the five turkey patties with one tablespoon pizza sauce and one tablespoon cheese on them would be just 2 Weight Watcher FreeStyle smart points each!
Here is what you need:
1 lb. 99% lean ground turkey
1/2 c. Italian seasoned breadcrumbs
1/2 c. green pepper diced
1/2 c. finely chopped onion
1 garlic clove, minced
1 egg white
3/4 c. pizza sauce
1/2 c. shredded part-skim mozzarella cheese
8 slices garlic Texas toast (I used New York Whole Grain)
Here is what you do:
Preheat oven and cook Texas toast according to directions on the box.
While Texas toast is cooking, combine turkey, bread crumbs, bell pepper, onion, garlic, and egg white. Add 1/4 cup of the pizza sauce to the meat mixture. Mix thoroughly.
Form mixture into 8 oval patties. Cook in a skillet over medium-high heat 12-14 minutes or until no longer pink, turning once.
When the Texas toast is cooked take the toast out of oven and set the oven temperature to 350°F. Place one turkey patty on each slice. Top patties with one tablespoon sauce and one tablespoon cheese.
Heat open-faced sandwiches in the oven for 2-3 minutes, or until the cheese is melted.
Serve warm.
One turkey burger, one slice of Texas toast, one tablespoon sauce, and one tablespoon cheese is 7 WW FreeStyle Smart Points.
- 1 lb. 99% lean ground turkey
- 1/2 c. Italian seasoned breadcrumbs
- 1/2 c. green pepper, diced
- 1/2 c. onion, finely chopped
- 1 garlic clove, minced
- 1 egg white
- 3/4 c. pizza sauce
- 1/2 c. shredded part-skim mozzarella cheese
- 8 slices garlic Texas toast (I used New York Whole Grain)
- Preheat oven and cook Texas toast according to directions on the box.
- While Texas toast is cooking, combine turkey, bread crumbs, bell pepper, onion, garlic, and egg white. Add 1/4 cup of the pizza sauce to the meat mixture. Mix thoroughly.
- Form mixture into 8 oval patties. Cook in a skillet over medium-high heat 12-14 minutes or until no longer pink, turning once.
- Take Texas toast out of oven and set the oven temperature to 350°F
- When the Texas toast is cooked place one turkey patty on each slice. Top patties with one tablespoon sauce and one tablespoon cheese.
- Heat open-faced sandwiches in the oven for 2-3 minutes, or until the cheese is melted.
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Hey Alisha. I really enjoy your website. I have tried several of your recipes and they are really great. Some of your recipes don’t include nutritional information. I really want to try the open face pizza burger but there is no nutritional information. If possible could you try putting that information with more of your recipes. It would be so very much appreciated. Thank you for doing what you do. I know that you have helped so many people in their weight loss journey with your website. God bless you and your family. Thanks, Renee C.
Thank you, Renee. Yes, you are correct. It wasn’t until this past year that I started adding nutritional facts with each recipe so some of the older recipes do not include them. My apologies. I will be quitting my part time job in February and hope to have some time to go back to the old recipes and add them in once I am can work on the blog full-time. In the meantime, I have plugged them into this Open-Faced Pizza Sandwich recipe. Thanks! 🙂
Thank you so much for responding so quickly. The items for this recipe will definitely be added to my shopping list for next week