Add this to your favorite pasta and tomato sauce, serve as an appetizer, or form into patties for breakfast! I would use dried herbs in this, or cut down the amounts if you use fresh.
Ingredients
- 1lb ground turkey
- 1t each of sage, fennel seed, thyme, black pepper, garlic powder, onion powder, salt
- 1 egg
- 1c of bread crumbs
- 1/3c Parmesan cheese
- Heat oven to 350
- Heat a non stick skillet to medium high with 1T EVOO into pan
- Mix all ingredients in a bowl and form into 1in balls
- Cook in pan a few at a time until brown on the outside
- Place in glass cook pan (one layer) and bake until cooked through
- Enjoy!
You can use turkey in place of pretty much any ground meat there is only one kicker: it is dry as heck! So when using ground turkey make sure you are using it you add some sort of sauce or extra fat (turkey is very lean, so sometimes adding fat helps).
- When making turkey meatloaf add some bbq sauce and a few slices of bacon on top
- Turkey is excellent in chili because of the sauce
- Turkey is great with pasta sauce. Cook it up in a pan and add your favorite jar sauce
- Turkey sausage from the store is good because it has fairly fatty turkey meat in it and the juices are kept in the casing. If you can find "free" or uncased turkey sausage it tastes great in lasagna. You can also remove the turkey from the casing before cooking!
- Turkey is great in shepherds pie! Put it on the bottom of the pot so the juices from the vegetables coat it
- Make sure you season turkey well or it turns out very bland!
2 comments:
Loving your blog, Lauren. Oh em geeee- the picture of that chicken soup made me so hungry.
Have you ever used ground turkey thigh? There is no issue of dryness, and it's also doesn't have the problem of getting greasy like ground beef.
You are definitely right! Ground turkey thigh not only has more moisture and tastes better. The only bad part is that that they are higher in fat, about twice that of breast meat! When you buy turkey sausage it is almost always thigh meat, or another fatty meat :(
You also have to be careful when buying other types of ground turkey. It really needs to say ALL breast (or whatever) meat because a lot of times they mix in skin or chunks of fat (blech) to give it more taste.
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