If you’re looking for a tasty and extremely juicy grilling recipe full of amazing flavor, then try our famous hawaiian turkey burgers. We make them every summer and all of our guests rave about them.
The hawaiian flavor makes these burgers stand out. The pineapple juice in the burgers not only produces a super juicy burger but also adds immense flavor.
I know the ingredients for these burgers are a little out of the ordinary but don’t that make you shy away. Give these crazy good burgers a try and make them for your friends too, it is a great healthy family dinner recipe!
This ground turkey recipe will go great with either some Hawaiian Haystacks or some amazing Hawaiian Laua Fried Rice. And then end the meal with some scrumptious Sheet Pan Hawaiian Poke Cake!

Ingredients Needed For This Hawaiian Turkey Burgers Recipe:
- Lean ground turkey
- Dry breadcrumbs
- Green bell pepper
- Green onions
- Ground ginger
- Pineapple slices in juice
- Salt
- Swiss cheese
- Teriyaki sauce
- Mayonnaise
- Hamburger buns
Equipment Needed
For this recipe, you only need a few simple kitchen tools. We recommend using the following equipment:



How To Make This Hawaiian Turkey Burgers Recipe:
- In a mixing bowl, combine turkey, bread crumbs, pepper, green onion, ginger, ¼ cup reserved juice from pineapple and salt.
- Divide turkey mixture into 6 equal parts and form into patties.
- Grill, broil or cook in a frying pan over medium heat until cooked through. The last few minutes of cooking, place pineapple over heat to cook. Place a slice of Swiss cheese on top of each patty when warm.
- Spread 1 Tablespoon Teriyaki sauce and 1 Tablespoon light mayonnaise on buns and top with burgers and pineapple.

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Hawaiian Turkey Burgers Recipe
Ingredients
- 1 ½ pounds lean ground turkey
- ¾ cup dry breadcrumbs
- ½ green bell pepper, diced
- 1 bunch green onions, diced
- ¾ teaspoon ground ginger
- 20 ounces pineapple slices, reserve juice
- ¾ teaspoon salt
- 6 slices Swiss cheese
- ⅓ cup Teriyaki sauce
- ⅓ cup mayonnaise
- 6 hamburger buns
Equipment
Instructions
- In a mixing bowl, combine turkey, bread crumbs, pepper, green onion, ginger, ¼ cup reserved juice from pineapple and salt.
- Divide turkey mixture into 6 equal parts and form into patties.
- Grill, broil or cook in a frying pan over medium heat until cooked through. The last few minutes of cooking, place pineapple over heat to cook. Place a slice of Swiss cheese on top of each patty when warm.
- Spread 1 Tablespoon Teriyaki sauce and 1 Tablespoon light mayonnaise on buns and top with burgers and pineapple.




















I’m always wanting to find new ways to use ground turkey! This will be great, because so far all I had come up with was using it in chili. thanks
Never underestimate the turkey burger! They are quite scrumptious.
Looks delicious! We are on the same page I swear, because we tend to have similar posts on the same days.
Um, pinning this immediately. It looks fantastic.
those flavors look amazing! i can’t wait to make these!
YUM!!!! This is a great way to get my family to eat ground turkey.
Delicious!! I love turkey burgers and my family is going to love this recipe!! Thanks for sharing!
Oh yum, looks great!
These look divine…what a unique creation!
This sounds great! Found you at trick or treat link party!
Thanks so much for linking up at my Super Saturday Show & Tell party last week!! Looks delish 🙂 You’re awesome as usual!! xoxo~ Ruthie
Yum! Found you on Thursday Favorite Things!
These look and sound so good!
Well ladies this is surely a winner! Thank you for sharing at the Thursday Favorite Things hop xo P.S. the new giveaway started yesterday 🙂
I’m using this with crab meat tonight, I think it’ll turn out great! Thanks for sharing!
I made tonight so yummy 🙂
Fail. Way too much liquid to grill. Maybe in the broiler these might hold together. But I threw the, on the weber and they virtually disintegrated. And I make turkey burgers all the time
Would recommend maybe diced pineapple in lieu of the juice. Or more binder which would kind of defeat the purpose
These burgers are the best!! I mix mayo, teriyaki and Siracha and spread on buns.
I made this tonight. Great switch up from my regular turkey burgers. I did not have teriyaki so I made this one from scratch….I also used diced pineapple as that is what I had and placed it on the burgers just before melting the Swiss cheese.
I didn’t have a problem at all. They were perfect and moist.
These were sooooo good! They will def be a staple on our weekly menus! I just love warm pineapple and the burgers are moist and flavorful! I used havarti cheese rather then Swiss. So yummy!!
Darn! We followed the recipe exactly (and triple checked) but ours just fell apart on the grill and were mushy. I wonder if we should have added egg to hold it together. The flavor was great… but the texture ?.
Fun flavor combination but my burgers didn’t stay together and were a crumbly mess. Not sure where I went wrong?
You could try adding an egg to help bind all of the ingredients together. It will not change the taste.