Taco Tuesday turkey bowls
35 min · 57 g protein · 515 cals / serving
Taco night in a bowl: spiced ground turkey over lime-cilantro rice stretched with cauliflower rice, with black beans, corn, crisp lettuce, salsa and a lime yogurt crema. Every topping you would pile into a shell, with more of the good stuff and no shell to break.
Ingredients
- 1 tsp olive oil
- 1 1/2 lb ground turkey breast (99% lean)
- 1 small onion, finely diced
Taco seasoning
- 1 1/2 tbsp chili powder
- 2 tsp ground cumin
- 1 tsp paprika
- 1 tsp garlic powder
- 1/2 tsp dried oregano
- 3/4 tsp salt
- 1/2 cup tomato sauce
- 1/4 cup water
Base
- 1 1/2 cups white rice
- 1 lb bag cauliflower rice
- 1, juiced lime
- a handful fresh cilantro, chopped
- 1 can (15 oz) black beans, drained and rinsed
- 3/4 cup sweet corn, fresh or thawed frozen
Toppings
- 4 cups romaine lettuce, shredded
- 1 large tomato, diced
- 1/2 cup salsa
- 1/4 cup cheddar cheese, shredded
- 2 tbsp pickled jalapenos
Lime crema
- 3/4 cup nonfat Greek yogurt
- zest and juice of 1/2 lime
Steps
- Heat the oil in a large skillet over medium-high heat. Add the turkey and onion and cook, breaking the meat into small crumbles, until browned and it reads 165°F, 8–10 minutes.
- Stir in the taco seasoning for 30 seconds, then the tomato sauce and 1/4 cup water. Simmer until saucy and clinging, 3–4 minutes. Taste for salt.
- Warm the rice and cauliflower rice together in a covered pan or the microwave until steaming, 4–5 minutes, then stir in the lime juice and cilantro.
- Warm the black beans and corn in a small pan with a pinch of salt, 2–3 minutes.
- Stir the yogurt with the lime zest, juice and a pinch of salt for the crema. Build the bowls: the rice base, turkey, beans and corn, then lettuce, tomato, salsa, cheese, jalapeños and a spoonful of crema.
Good to know
Will anyone notice the cauliflower rice?
Mixed into real rice and seasoned with lime and cilantro, it reads as rice, especially under the turkey and toppings. Go all rice if you prefer; at about 61 instead of 72, the bowl is still a strong one.
Won't ground turkey breast be dry?
Not once it simmers in the tomato sauce. Break it into small crumbles as it browns and stop as soon as it is cooked through; the sauce does the rest. Regular 93% lean ground turkey works too, a little richer at about 61 instead of 72.
Meal prep?
Keep the turkey, base and beans in one container and the cold toppings and crema in another, then reheat only the first. It holds 4 days in the fridge.
Per
- Calories
- 92
- Protein
- (45%)
- 10 g
- Fat
- (19%)
- 2 g
- Carbohydrates
- (36%)
- 9 g
- of which sugar
- 2 g
- Fiber
- 2 g
- Sodium
- 245 mg
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Computed from the ingredients with our published formula, not yet kitchen-tested. How
As written, 2061 kcal goes into the pot and 2793 g of ingredients comes out as about 2250 g of food: 92 kcal per 100 g. Cooking moves water and energy density is the score's biggest lever, so the dish is scored as cooked, not as an average of its parts. Every ingredient links to its food page, with the same data and score. The label's percentages are each macronutrient's share of the calories. The full formula.