Ground turkey meals

Mix ground turkey with eggs and spinach. Great protein breakfast that you can eat any time of the day.

Meatballs, or mixed with taco seasoning and served with pepper, black beans and rice as your diet allows.

You could make turkey burgers with spinach. I found a great recipe on YouTube. https://youtu.be/Vn20uhKnMyA

I've been using this recipe for turkey sausage in my breakfast burritos, it's really good.

Turkey Sausage

1 pound ground turkey
1 teaspoon salt
½ teaspoon cracked pepper
1 teaspoon dried sage
¼ teaspoon fennel
1 teaspoon onion powder
½ teaspoon garlic powder
¼ teaspoon red pepper flakes
1 tablespoon olive oil

1. Place oil in a medium frying pan.
2. Add turkey, salt, pepper, sage, fennel, onion powder, garlic powder, and red pepper flakes.
3. Mix together and cook over medium heat until fully cooked through. About 5-7 minutes.
4. Eat or use as desired.

My lunch this week has been Spaghetti with Meat Sauce. Spaghetti squash for the spaghetti and ground turkey for the meat. Add in some mushrooms and low cal tomato sauce and voila.

grantsmommy wrote: »

I know it doesn’t sound appetizing but it is really good. It’s called GLOP. Lol. It stands for get lots of protein. You cook ground turkey and then mix in 8oz cottage cheese and 16oz jar salsa. The original recipe also calls for brown rice mixed in but I’m not a fan of rice. It doesn’t look pretty but tastes really good! I’m actually making it tonight.

That sounds disgustingly good. I think I'm going to have to try it.

I make asian lettuce wraps...similar to PF Chang's version. Super quick and easy...even my kids like them.

Brown the ground turkey with a few tablespoons of soy ginger (or other similar asian style) salad dressing...I use Newman's Own or Ken's lite versions. Add a dollop of hoisin sauce if desired. I also like to add chopped water chestnuts.

Prepare a bagged chopped asian salad as directed (my supermarket carries Taylor Farms brand...I believe Dole and Fresh Express also make similar salads...but I suppose any cabbage slaw would work...you would just need to add additional asian dressing).

Mix the browned turkey with the salad. The warm ground turkey will slightly "cook" the cabbage mixture.

Make wraps with any larger leaf lettuce (iceberg, boston, bibb. butter, romaine...whatever your preference)...add hoisin to taste.

I sometimes make a white chili recipe with Turkey and white beans. Delicious. Should be able to google a recipe.

https://www.primaverakitchen.com/ground-turkey-skillet-with-green-beans/

https://www.skinnytaste.com/turkey-chili-taco-soup/

https://www.sugarfreemom.com/recipes/healthy-turkey-stuffed-pepper/

https://www.skinnytaste.com/giant-turkey-meatball-parmesan/

cmorehar wrote: »

Does anyone have good recipes or types of meals they can share with me for cooking with ground turkey? For awhile I've been doing ground turkey and whole grain pasta, but I am trying to veer away from carbs later in the day now. Any help is appreciated!

Have you seen those Bird's Eye bags with the protein packed blends? I love mixing those with ground turkey. Lasts for 4-6 days in the fridge.

Southwestern-Flavored Ground Beef or Turkey

Ingredients

2 tablespoons olive oil
1 large onion, chopped
3 large garlic cloves, minced
3 tablespoons chili powder
2 teaspoons dried oregano
1 tablespoon ground cumin
3 pounds lean ground beef or turkey
1 (14.5 ounce) can petite diced tomatoes
Salt and pepper, to taste
1/4 cup cornmeal

Directions
*Heat oil in a 12-inch skillet until shimmering.
*Add onion; saute until soft, about 5 minutes.
*Add garlic, chili powder, oregano and cumin; saute until fragrant, about 1 minute.
*Add beef or turkey and cook, stirring often, until it loses its raw color.
*Stir in tomatoes; simmer to blend flavors, about 5 minutes.
*Add salt and pepper, to taste.
*Stir in cornmeal; cook, stirring constantly, until it thickens, almost instantly.
Cool and refrigerate (or serve warm for dinner as tacos or taco salad).

I like turkey chili with black beans.

https://pin.it/djeru5dop5cjhj

Hello! You can use ground turkey to make meatballs, burgers, tacos, wraps... there are a lot of ideas to use this kind of protein source. Just keep in mind the portions as ground turkey usually contains a lot of fat.(As long as they fit in your macros...)

I second all suggestions of using ground turkey as a substitution for ground beef in recipes.

I make turkey meatloaf/turkey burgers using a different herb/seasoning mix than my beef versions about 1/2 the time (the rest of the time, I use my beef meatloaf seasonings approach or a Tex-Mex flavorings approach). I use both Litehouse dried herbs poultry mix as well as the ground McCormick poultry spice (with minced onion, minced celery, panko, egg, S&P [lite on the salt], dash of cayenne or hot sauce, and whatever else strikes my fancy that night). See picture below; I was rushed this last week and only rough-chopped the onions and celery, but the chunkiness made a nice burger anyway. Made roasted brussels sprouts as one side.

Another fairly low carb dish, and I would need to dig out a proper recipe for it (I usually wing it), is to make "turkey eggplant boats" - see below picture. Carve out the eggplant, cook up a thick, turkey-based Italian-style red sauce (I often make my own) - including the carved-out eggplant chunks and other veggies/mushrooms you want to add. When the sauce [filling, actually - "sauce" sounds too thin] comes together, spoon it into the carved eggplant shells, bake until nearly done, remove and top with a little cheese, and bake until browned.