Ground Turkey -How do you eat it?

I use it all the time. I brown it up with Simply Organic All Purpose seasoning and Sea Salt. Tastes great that way.

Some of my favorite ways:

I mix the browned meat with salsa and put on taco salads (plain greek yogurt instead of sour cream of course)

I mix it with steamed cabbage, DelAllo Fat Free Marinara and Low Fat cottage cheese for a Low Carb/Low Fat lasagne.

I mix it with chili seasoning and stuff multi color bell peppers and bake it with a little cheese on top.

My husband and son are "all in" when it comes to ME eating healthier - until it comes to me COOKING healthier. They don't like the taste of ground turkey either - because they're used to ground beef. So when I started cooking healthier, I had to get sneaky. I started by combining ground turkey with lean ground beef 50/50. Then I gradually added more and more turkey to what I cooked.

Things I make with ground turkey:
Chili - I will say it tastes different... lighter perhaps.
Meatloaf - find a different recipe than the one you've always used... I like Hungry Girls Taco Meatloaf
Turkey Burgers - by the time you add all the condiments - a little firmer texture is the only thing that you notice.
Turkey meatballs - add onions, green peppers, Mrs. Dash, egg white and Quick Oats and simmer in your favorite pasta sauce for a few hours.


But I think the best advice that I can give is... if after trying it a couple of times you still don't like it... don't eat it. What I'm learning is to be "frugal" with my calories... don't waste them on something that you don't love and that isn't good for you. If you like ground beef... buy the leanest ground beef you can find and use it sparingly. Good luck!

I have found that adding a beef bouillon cube or two while browning the turkey helps mask the turkey taste that seems to overpower some dishes to me. Of course, it will increase the sodium, so you'll want to cut back the salt in the rest of your recipe.

Was going to suggest this - you beat me to it! I'd suggest, however, looking for the low-sodium versions in the grocery store. Those bouillon cubes have a whole day's worth of sodium in them!

All the other suggestions about herbs & spices are right on, too. I used ground turkey just like I'd use hamburger in the past - usually add flavoring to it. Italian style bread crumbs have lots of flavor usually (yeah, and that sodium I'm trying to avoid...) so I use that when I make turkey meatballs. Burgers can take on so many styles - curry seasoning is good if you like that. I'm a sort of 'throw everything together' sort of cook, so I find lots of creations.

Then again, once in a blue moon I end up with the horrible stuff I made yesterday (have to actually throw it out) but I think the meat I used actually had gone bad. So it's not my fault, haha -this time... :laugh:

i substitue anything that you would put beef in with ground turkey or ground chicken.

Meatballs or meat sauce
meatloaf
tacos
chili
hamburgers

the list goes on and on and nom nom nom

Stuffed cabbage rolls. We just made them and they were great. I never use ground beef anymore.

My family loves turkey burgers with 1 pkg reduced fat feta, 2 tsp greek seasoning, 1/2 cup oatmeal, and 1/2 cup egg substiture mixed with 2 lbs of turkey, grill on the stove top as they are hard to manage on a traditional grill.

I use it for tacos.

thats the key to eating better we are trained to only eat what taste good, after 5 weeks of eating different foods your palate hanges and you crave the good foods ! Has anyone tryed the RAW Foods Diet?

Can you mix ground turkey with ground sirloin. My husband is not dieting with me, so I'd like to start using more ground turkey w/out him noticing and then gradually switch all the way over (this is how I got him to eat whole wheat pasta and turkey bacon, even though we recently switched back to pork due to his incessant begging. Luckily, we don't eat much bacon.)

Have you every tried switching meats like this or did you just go "cold turkey" - hah! Food pun. /dorkiness

You absolutely can mix it in recipes. I do it all the time! My husband and son are..... resistant to change - so if I'm making something that I think they'll balk at - I mix the turkey and beef. On the whole wheat pasta thing - have you tried brown rice pasta? We've found that we enjoy the texture of it so much more than the whole wheat pasta.

I like to brown it, add a full bell pepper, half an onion and 1 large can of sloppy joe sauce. Cook it in a crockpot all day on low and you have some delicious sloppy joes

Turkey Chili

1 lb ground turkey breast
1 can tomatoes with chilis
1 can red kidney beans
1 can tomato sauce
chili powder to taste
1 onion

Cook turkey and onion then drain. Add tomatos, tomato sauce, drained and rinsed kidney beans and chili powder.
Simmer 20 minutes
Freeze 2 cup servings for later.

Iam going to try it brah.

We've made turkey burgers with worchestershire sauce yummmmmm

I am not a fan of ground turkey either but it actually tastes good in chili. Making it in chili will actually cover the gamey taste that turkey sometimes has.

turkey meatballs, turkeyloaf, turkey tacos, ground turkey lasagna! since i discovered ground turkey I rarely use ground beef!

This.

I also believe that you have to read the label and make sure you are getting healthier meat than the beef to be effective, and it also affects the taste. Some ground turkey packages have just as much and sometimes MORE fat and calories than its ground beef counterpart. That's why I didn't try it for a long time. I finally found one at Harris Teeter that is 99% fat free white breast meat.

I season the meat more than what I would have seasoned the beef, so perhaps that would help with the taste for you. But just like this person, I have exchanged this healthy turkey in all my beef recipes because the saturated fat and the calories are lower, and the protein is actually higher, too which is very important for me. I've found that with the correct seasonings, you can't even really tell much of a difference at all in most of the recipes.