Warm turkey taco salad
3
Points®
Total time: 35 min • Prep: 15 min • Cook: 20 min • Serves: 4 • Difficulty: Easy
This is everything you love about a taco, but without the additional calories and carbs from the tortillas. Our recipe features white rice that's flavored with cilantro, lime zest, and lime juice, as well as ground turkey spiced with chili powder, cumin, and canned chipotle chiles. The spicy turkey is balanced out by crushed tomatoes and dark brown sugar, which are all cooked down until the sauce is nicely thickened. After creating 4 large lettuce cups, pile on the turkey mixture, cilantro rice, chopped fresh tomatoes, salsa, sliced scallions, and more cilantro. It's so delicious, you'll never get a takeout taco bowl ever again.
Ingredients
Olive oil
1 tsp
Uncooked 93% lean ground turkey
¾ pound(s)
Uncooked onion
1 small, finely chopped
Garlic
2 clove(s), minced
Chili powder
1 Tbsp
Ground cumin
1 tsp
Table salt
½ tsp
Canned chipotle peppers in adobo sauce
1 item(s), seeded, minced (leave seeds if you want more heat)
Canned crushed tomatoes
14½ oz
Fresh lime juice
1½ Tbsp, divided
Dark brown sugar
½ Tbsp
Cooked white rice
1 cup(s), kept warm
Cilantro
2 tsp, leaves, chopped (plus extra for garnish)
Lime zest
½ tsp, grated
Iceberg lettuce
16 leaf/leaves, medium
Tomato
1 cup(s), chopped
Salsa
4 Tbsp
Scallions
1 medium, thinly sliced
Instructions
1
Heat oil in large nonstick skillet over medium heat. Add turkey, onion, and garlic. Cook, breaking apart turkey with wooden spoon, until turkey is no longer pink and onion begins to soften, 3−5 minutes. Add chili powder, cumin, salt, chipotle, and crushed tomatoes; simmer, stirring occasionally, until turkey is fully cooked and sauce thickens, 8−10 minutes. Stir in 1 tablespoon lime juice and brown sugar; remove from heat.
2
Meanwhile, combine cooked rice, cilantro, lime zest, and remaining ½ tablespoon lime juice in small bowl.
3
To serve, make 4 lettuce cups by layering 4 lettuce leaves together for each serving. Place 1 lettuce cup on each of 4 plates and top each with ¾ cup turkey mixture, ¼ cup rice, ¼ cup chopped tomatoes, and 1 tablespoon salsa; garnish with scallion and cilantro.
4
Serving size: 1 salad
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