Ground Turkey Tacos. Ground turkey is sautéed with chopped onion, chili powder, tomato paste, and chicken broth in these easy, family-friendly tacos. Stuff them into hard taco shells and top with all the fixings—sour cream, pico de gallo, avocado, cheddar cheese, and shredded lettuce. Ground turkey is seasoned with chili powder, cumin, paprika, and cayenne in this easy recipe for a meat topping for tacos or baked potatoes.
Simply drain the juice and use the fruit to top each taco.
I have already been making tacos with ground turkey for a couple years.
The ground turkey has a lot less grease and when cooked in the taco seasoning, just melts in your mouth.
You can cook Ground Turkey Tacos using 15 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you achieve that.
Ingredients of Ground Turkey Tacos
- It's 2 tbsp of olive oil, extra virgin.
- It's 1 of medium chopped onion.
- Prepare 20 oz of lean ground turkey.
- You need 1 tbsp of worcestershire sauce.
- You need 2 of serrano peppers, minced.
- You need 1 tbsp of Montreal steak seasoning.
- It's 1 tsp of ground black pepper.
- You need 1 tsp of seasoning salt.
- You need 1 tsp of ground cumin.
- Prepare 1 tsp of minced garlic.
- It's 2 of colored peppers, chopped.
- You need 1 cup of cilantro, chopped.
- It's 1 can of black beans.
- You need 1 packages of spinach and/or lettuce.
- It's 1 packages of tortillas.
Cilantro gives it a nice kick. You could probably add some lime to it also to change up the flavor if you want to. Then, you top the seasoned ground turkey with creamy avocado and sweet pineapple slices for an irresistible taco with all the flavors and textures you could want. Thanks to their ease and simplicity, tacos are such a great weeknight meal, but it's easy to get into a taco rut.
Ground Turkey Tacos step by step
- Saute onion in the olive oil..
- Add the serranos, turkey and seasonings. Cook until the meat is done..
- Add the red peppers and the black beans. Cook until hot..
- Warm the tortillas (optional). I like to use a flat pan with olive oil applied by a papper towel for flour tortillas. Once the pan reaches medium-high heat I put the tortilla on it. As they cook, they begin to puff up a little. I then flip them and toast the other side in less time..
- Take the tortilla and place a bed of spinach/lettuce on it. Top with turkey mixture. Add cheese, salsa, olives, etc if desired.
- Option - add 5 ounces of mushrooms. Plus I like more heat and spices than friends, so for myself I will up them. You can always add more, put you can never take them back out..
The other thing to keep in mind is, because ground turkey is so lean, it cannot go into the skillet dry the same way ground beef can. You need to add oil to the pan before cooking the turkey. How to make ground turkey tacos. To make this healthy ground turkey taco recipe you start with heating a skillet. When the skillet is simmering add a tablespoon olive oil.