Cooking with Bobby Flay

Bobby Flay

Cobb salads occupy a delicious middle ground between the decadent (hello bacon and blue cheese!) and the virtuous (lean turkey, and it is a salad after all). Whichever side you land on, there is no denying how awesome the mixture of tangy blue cheese, salty bacon, creamy avocados, ripe tomatoes and crisp romaine lettuce is. It’s not hard to imagine how good those ingredients would taste not tossed with cubes of roasted turkey, but topping a hot and juicy turkey burger. It makes perfect sense to me!

Turkey Cobb Burger, serves 4

  • 1 tablespoon red wine vinegar
  • 1 tablespoon fresh lemon juice
  • 1 teaspoon Dijon mustard
  • 1 teaspoon Worcestershire sauce
  • 1 clove garlic, finely chopped
  • Salt and freshly ground black pepper
  • ¼ cup extra virgin olive oil
  • 1 ¼ cups finely shredded romaine lettuce
  • 1 ½ pounds ground turkey, 90 percent lean
  • 2 ounces crumbled blue cheese
  • 8 slices bacon, cooked until crisp
  • 4 burger buns, split
  • 1 large ripe beefsteak tomato, cut into 4 slices
  • 1 ripe avocado, peeled, pitted and cut into 8 slices
Turkey Cobb Burger
  1. Whisk together the vinegar, lemon juice, mustard, Worcestershire sauce and garlic in a large bowl and let sit while you prepare the burgers. Add the lettuce and toss well just before serving the burgers.
  2. Divide the meat into four equal portions (6-ounces each). Form each portion loosely into a ¾ -inch burger and make a deep depression in the center with your thumb. Season both sides of each burger with salt and pepper.
  3. Cook the burger (using one of the methods on page TK) until slightly charred on both sides and cooked to desired doneness. Divide the blue cheese over the burgers during the last minute of cooking and cover with a basting cover or close the lid of the grill.
  4. Place the burgers on the bottom half of each bun and top with a slice of tomato, 2 slices of avocado, 2 slices of bacon and some of the dressed romaine. Cover each burger with the bun tops and serve.

Adapted from “Bobby Flay’s Burgers, Fries & Shakes Cookbook” by Bobby Flay Copyright 2009 Published by Clarkson Potter/Publishers a division of Random House, Inc.