Having a bunch of turkey left overs from Thanksgiving, I’ve spent most of the week working on utilizing it as much as I can. Last Night, I made a nice turkey fried rice for my wife and as always it was super simple and super tasty.
As with many of my recipes, it is a bit of a blank canvas and you can use any type of meat you’d like. Enjoy the great mix of carrots, green peppers, turkey, and egg as it melts in your mouth and warms you up. This is what fried rice should be, notice the lack of that weird yellow color? I still haven’t figured out why that’s added to the take outs! Make a big batch as you can warm this up for quick dinners or lunches as well.
INGREDIENTS:
- 1 1/2 cups turkey (pulled/shredded)
- 1 carrot (vertical sliced)
- 1/2 green pepper (horizontal sliced)
- 4 cloves garlic (diced)
- 1 egg
- 2 cups rice (cooked)
- 1 tablespoon soy sauce
- 1 tablespoon rice wine
- 1 tablespoon garlic (diced)
- 1/4 cup green onion (sliced)
METHOD:
Warm a skillet on medium-high heat. Once warmed, add oil and garlic then sauté for 30 seconds or so. Add carrots, green peppers, pepper, and turkey. Turn heat up to high and fry for 5 minutes stirring to make sure things don’t stick to the pan.
Add rice, rice wine, and soy sauce and mix well. Make a small hole in the center of the skillet and crack the egg in the middle. Mix the egg until it is cooked, add green onions and then mix the whole skillet up, remove from heat and serve.
As many of you may noticed, there is always a bunch of turkey left over from the holidays. Being from the bird family, you can easily dress up turkey to appear to be chicken and save that tasty meat from going to waste!
This dish does just that, with the combination of spices the signature turkey taste is covered up and even in pictures appears to look like chicken! A simple combination of spiced turkey, cheese, tomato, and green onion presents itself beautifully in this quesadilla with a rich taste that’s sure to entice you to make it up again or even ask for more left overs.
INGREDIENTS:
- 1 cup turkey (diced)
- 1 cup cheese (colby jack)
- 1/2 cup green onions (about 2 stalks)
- 1 tomato (diced)
- 1 dash pepper
- 1 dash cayenne pepper
- 1 teaspoon cilantro
- 4 10″ tortilla
METHOD:
Preheat oven to 350. In a mixing bowl, combine tomato, turkey, green onion, cheese, pepper, cayenne pepper, and cilantro. Mix until all ingredients are mixed well.
Lay 1 tortilla on a baking sheet, pour half of the mixture on the tortilla, top with another tortilla. Place in oven on top rack for about 8 minutes. Watch for the tortilla to get brown on top. Remove and Serve with sour creme or guacamole.