Ground turkey, rice, green beans, tomatoes, and delicious seasonings are combined for a delicious and quick skillet meal!
I am not kidding when I say I have been stress eating French Coconut pie for the last couple of days, working on this rebrand.
But that’s done, and aside from some housekeeping stuff that is no big deal will keep me busy for the next hundred years, I am ready to forge ahead. So, let’s do this!
I made this Ground Turkey Skillet dish throughout last November and December when the holidays were all up in my business. It was pretty much a lifesaver. Occasionally, I would use Rotel instead of the plain canned tomatoes, for some added heat. Brown the turkey and onion, then throw everything else in there, simmer, and voila! Dinner.
My love for one pan meals will never change. Skillet dinners for life, my friends!
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How To Make This Ground Turkey Skillet Recipe
Ground Turkey Skillet
Ingredients
- 1 tablespoon extra virgin olive oil
- 1 1/4 pound lean ground turkey
- 1 small sweet onion , diced
- 15 ounce can diced tomatoes , undrained
- 6 ounces green beans , cut into 2-inch pieces (about 1 1/2 cups)
- 1 1/2 cups short grain white rice
- 2 1/2 cups low sodium chicken broth
- 1 teaspoon coarse salt
- 1/4 teaspoon black pepper
- 1/4 teaspoon garlic powder
- 1/2 teaspoon dried Italian herbs
- 1/8 teaspoon cracked red pepper flakes
- 2 teaspoons grainy mustard
- 2 teaspoons worcestershire sauce
Instructions
- In a large nonstick skillet, heat the oil over medium-high. Add the turkey and onion; sauté until onions become soft and no pink remains with the turkey (about 3 minutes), stirring occasionally. Season with some salt and pepper. Drain off fat; return to heat.
- Stir in all the other ingredients. Bring to boil, cover, then reduce heat to medium-low, simmer for 20-22 minutes until rice is done.
- Remove from the heat, taste and adjust seasoning if necessary. Serve immediately and enjoy!
Everyone loved it! I substituted Tuscan kale for the green beans (added about halfway through the 20 minute low simmer) and used a combo of turkey “sausage” and ground turkey – 2 lbs and added about a half cup more chicken broth. Perfect!
nice and easy to make. great taste, will use it again.
Great quick meal! Used mild Rotel that I blended rather than diced tomatoes; gave it a nice zip. May add a bit more seasoning the next time. We enjoyed it!
Delicious
Delicious just as written!
I bought some ground turkey on sale and was looking for a good, quick recipe and I sure found it! I added fresh green beans from the garden. I didn’t have the mustard so I left it out. I will definitely be making this great dish again.
We enjoyed this! We used brown basmati rice because that’s all I had and Italian diced tomatoes because we didn’t have Italian seasoning. Ended up
Needing to add about 1 1/2 cups more of chicken broth to account for the longer cooking time needed for the brown rice. Thanks for sharing!
Made this for my family for dinner tonight and everyone, even my picky 4 yr old granddaughter, loved it! It’s a keeper for sure! I added season salt and onion powder to ours as well.
I’ve made this with turkey before and it’s great but I don’t have any on hand tonight. Could i use 1.5 pounds of ground beef and sausage instead
Hi Remy – you can definitely replace the turkey with ground beef and/or sausage, but cut back the amount to 1 1/4 pounds, otherwise there won’t be enough liquid for the rice to cook properly.
Good stuff I also enjoy that the ingredients are already in the kitchen no need to run shopping this recipe save me time and money and my family loved it
Trying to make it even more healthy lol would brown rice instead of white change how this needs to be cooked/how long?
I’ve never tried it with brown rice, but I’m sure it would be fine. Without further recipe testing I couldn’t say for sure, but it does typically take a little longer. Just test after a few extra minutes, maybe.
Worcestershire sauce is full of salt. Any suggestions for a substitution?
I am going to try this recipe tonight. Saw the question about replacing worchestershire. My daughter and I are GF and so I use balsamic vinegar and just a little salt. It is easier and cheaper than looking for GF worchestershire. I will be making that substitution in my version.
I used soy sauce instead because we were out of Worcestershire sauce and it was still delicious!
Hi! would spicy brown mustard and/or dijon work? I don’t have grainy (and don’t have dijon atm either, lol!) thanks!
Yep, either are fine!
Made this last night. Eating the leftovers for breakfast. Everyone LOVED it. Kids gobbled it down. 4 year old also had it for breakfast and is asking for more. I followed the recipe except I used frozen mixed Vegs as we just had green beans. Absolutely going in the rotation
Awesome, thanks for the suggestion of the frozen mixed veggies…only ingredient I didn’t have on hand were the green beans, but I had the frozen mixed veggies…perfect!
I just subbed black beans for green and I didn’t have grainy mustard, but it was still delish!
Thanks,
The Cooking Baba
I only have long grain white rice, will that work? Do I have to change anything?
Hi Leah – That will be fine! No need to change anything.
Does it require to ride to be cooked before hand or am I putting dried rice in the mixture?
Uncooked rice.
…. Just started making that eight now due to it’s the end of the month and as every adult knows food get low lol. Thanks for this skillet idea we been trying to cut back on the pork… And eating more lean meats chicken, turkey and beef. Pleased to know you create skillets like that
I made this dish and it was a tasty dish. I did add other seasonings to this dish. If I make this again, I would omit the rice by a half of cup, due to it was too much rice and cut 1/4 cup of water. otherwise, I did like the dish.
This was very good and very easy on my touchy digestive system. Thanks for sharing.
After fasting for 2 days to calm my pancreas down, I made this healthy dish and it was delicious! I left the red pepper flakes out and subbed smoked paprika. Crazy good.
Will not using the grainy mustard alter the taste dramatically????
No, not dramatically, but for optimal flavor I would leave it in.
Just made this…very good! I feel like it could be so flexible on ingredients!! Can’t wait to experiment with it. Thank you for the inspiration.
I made a double batch of this, and it was perfect. Thank you for sharing!
Can you post the calories/nutrition info?
Thanks!
I made turkey skillet but did something wrong. Was very liquidity. Was I suppose to drain tomatoes? I used about a puns of meat. Too much broth? Otherwise it was delish.
Hey Angela, sorry to hear that. As per the instructions you do not want to drain the tomatoes, so that is correct. However, you should have used 1 1/4 pounds of turkey. Maybe that was the issue, since the more meat will soak up more of the liquid. I don’t know, without me having watched you. I’ve made this countless times and it’s never watery.
Ugh… i only have beef broth,… will this work?
Hi Sonya – you can use beef broth, but it will have a much stronger flavor. Which isn’t necessarily a bad thing. I just wouldn’t want it to drown out the other ingredients. Try it!
If I wanted to sub brown rice, which takes double the time to cook, should I cook the rice separately or will all ingredients be ok for that long?
Cook it separately, otherwise the green beans will be too soggy. Although, be aware the rice won’t soak up all that great flavor from cooking it as intended, and therefore the results will be different.
I only have canned green beans. Would they work in this recipe, or just fall apart?
Hi Heather – ya, unfortunately I think they’ll get mushy. Maybe add them in at the very end?
I missed the big rebranding! I love the new name. And I love this skillet dish. What a wonderful weeknight dinner.
This is totally a keeper recipe!! LOVE.
looooove the new space & name! Congrats girl, it’s beautiful! And your food looks amazing as always!
Skillet dinners 4LYFE.
And man, how much do I still love this white and the new fonts…
Amy I LOVE your new design, it’s so clean and fresh looking. Plus the rebrand. Great name!
Also this skillet dinner is right up my ally, my kind of weeknight meal.
This looks like a delicious skillet dinner and one that would make great leftovers for bringing to work the next day!