Ground turkey

[Michele]

I've got 20oz of ground turkey that needs to be made into dinner tonight. I'm not feeling very inspired right now.

Any recipe ideas?

[Momo]

Tacos, spaghetti sauce can& you can always add to other ground meat for a meat loaf. Sorry...I know those are the obvious.

[MissCrabette]

I love ground turkey! I'll post links to the actual recipes when I get to the computer, but just off the top of my head: turkey burgers and turkey chili.

Alright, here we go.

Turkey Chili: http://allrecipes.com/recipe/lauras-...li/detail.aspx This makes a VERY spicy chili, so follow the second reviewer's modifications if you want to serve it to the kids or wimps like me. I omit the all spice (don't have it), reduce the amount of red paper flakes by A LOT, and use a can of diced tomatoes or diced tomatoes and chiles instead of one can of tomato soup. I also make it with whatever beans I have on hand, usually pinto beans.

Turkey burgers: http://allrecipes.com/recipe/actuall...rs/detail.aspx These are very good. I haven't made them in a while, but thanks for the push to dig them back up.
http://www.food.com/recipe/turkey-burgers-163124 These are also really good. I really like the taste of the burger with the soy sauce. Yum!

[diggitydot]

We don't use hamburger at all. Only ground turkey. Pretty much any recipe that calls for hamburger can substitute ground turkey. We use it in nachos, tacos, spaghetti, chilli, burgers, etc.

[corn poffi]

Ditto what DD said. I haven't eaten ground beef since I was 7! Ground turkey subs well in nearly everything.

[TigerLily]

spicy turkey sloppy joes! So delicious. I think 1 cup or so of spaghetti sauce, 1 tbs ketcup, a little bit of hot sauce. 1 cut up onion and one cut up yellow pepper.
Also Turkey burgers

[L.Jane]

Runzas. I cheat and buy pillsbury biscuts and roll them out to make the bread dough. I also make them into balls, not rectangles because I am not that talented. I have attached a site that tells you about them and a few variations. My variation consists of sauteeing an onion, garlic, and veggies (usually I dice musroom and zuchinni, my sister likes to put corn in). Then I cook the ground meat, mix it all together. Roll each biscuit flat and put a good sized spoonful of the meat and veggi mix in the center, then pull all the corners together so it is closed into a ball (kind of like a hot pocket). I use a lb of ground turkey and that can fill at least 24 biscuits. Then I cook as the dough instructions say. I either eat it with ketchup or pasta sauce. Its a pretty easy recipe to adapt to whatever you like to eat.

http://thisfoodthing.com/index.php/2...-runza-recipe/

[Michele]

I almost always end up making spinach meatballs or turning it into breakfast sausage.

I'm liking the runzas idea. I totally was thinking of some kind of meat pie but couldn't figure out how to do it.

[diggitydot]

Could also make turkey pot pie. It's super easy. You can use Bisquick for the top as a crust if you don't want to make a pie crust.

[Michele]

Hmmm. Pot pie! I'm craving dough apparently.

[diggitydot]

I'm in a comfort/cozy food mood today, too. It's been raining for the last 24 hours straight and I'm in the mood for warm soup. Maybe tonight will be a kielbasa soup night. Or, as DS calls it, "hotdog soup".

[MarissaNicole]

meat loaf

http://www.dietsinreview.com/recipes...mini-meatloaf/

Buffalo blue cheese meatloaf
http://recipes.sparkpeople.com/recip...?recipe=910233

[Michele]

Ended up making a major variant of the runza stuff.

Dough:
2/3c water
1/3c milk
1 egg
2 T butter
1/4 c sugar
1t salt
3.5-4 c flour
2 1/4 t yeast

Dough cycle in the bread machine

Filling:

1 onion diced
6 cloves garlic
Sautéed in olive oil, added 20 ground turkey, then chopped spinach after the turkey was cooked
Cooled a bit then stirred in 8oz shredded mozzarella. (salt and pepper to taste)

I cut the dough into 16 pieces and rolled them out and filled them with an ice cream scoop of the filling. I should've filled them more or a little different bc they were a little bready for my taste.

I baked them at 350 for 25 minutes and served it with jar marinara sauce.