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BBQ Turkey Skillet
Servings: 5
Nutrition
Calories: 494kcal | Carbohydrates: 34g | Protein: 37g | Fat: 23g
Ground turkey tossed in BBQ sauce and mixed with sweet potatoes, red pepper, and kale. This is a super quick and tasty dish for those weeks you don't want to spend a lot of time in the kitchen.
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Ingredients
- 2 lbs (908 g) ground turkey 93/7
- 2 large (600 g) sweet potatoes
- 1 medium (150 g) red pepper
- ½ medium (125 g) sweet onion
- 2½ tbsp (38 g) olive oil
- 1 bunch (100 g) lacinato kale
- 2 tsp (10 g) lemon juice
- 5 tbsp (75 g) BBQ sauce vinegar based (anything will work though)
- Salt and pepper to taste
Instructions
For the Sweet Potatoes
- Preheat your oven to 425°.
- Wash and cut your sweet potatoes into a large dice. Toss in 1 tbsp of olive oil and season with salt and pepper. Bake for 10 minutes, then flip and cook an additional 8-10 minutes or until soft.
For the Vegetables
- While the potatoes are cooking, cut your onion and red pepper into a small dice.
- Wash and remove the kale leaves from the stems. Rougly chop the leaves and place into a bowl.
- Drizzle 2 tsp of lemon juice and a few pinches of salt over the kale. Massage the kale by squeezing it in your hands 5-8 times. This will help to break down the fibers and keep it from being so tough.
- In a skillet, heat ½ tbsp of oil. Add in the onion and red pepper and cook until soft.
- Once they have softened, add the kale and turn off the heat. Allow the residual heat to wilt the kale.
For the Turkey
- Heat 1 tbsp of oil over medium high heat in a separate large skillet. Brown the turkey and then mix in the BBQ sauce.
- Once everything has finished cooking, combine all of the ingredients in a large pot/bowl and mix to incorporate. Season with salt and pepper to taste.
Plating
- This recipe makes 5 servings. Divide your ingredients evenly 5 ways.
NUTRITION INFO
The information in the following table are estimates for the total nutrition of the recipe, as written. If you follow the recipe listed above, as written, you can use these tables to determine the nutrition information if you wanted to split the recipe, as written, into more or less servings than what is originally listed. If you update the number of servings in the “Servings” field of the recipe above, the information in these tables are no longer accurate as you have updated the ingredients.
Servings
Carbs
170.9g
Protein
184.3g
Fat
99.6g
Calories
2317.2 cals
This Post Has 8 Comments
Why am I preheating oven here? I prefer roasting the sweet potatoes personally, so I like preheating the oven.
Oh I thought it said boil not bake
The weight loss version uses boiled instead of roasted potatoes to save some calories from the oil used in the roasting. So if you were looking at that recipe you have it right, boil not roast 👍
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Bomb, just enough bbq sauce so that you can taste it but not overwhelmed by it.
I ended up adding more bbq sauce after the first day, but otherwise the recipe holds up well for 5 days and tastes pretty good. I thought the kale would ruin it but it works with the other ingredients if you remove the stems and massage the leaves.
Extremely tasty and filling, 10/10!