Ground Turkey Fajitas
I was desperate for some new healthy recipes to add to our weekday dinners. A little googling brought me to this recipe from Cooks.com I altered it just a bit and ended up with a flavorful meal with zero guilt! The recipe below is for 2 servings, so feel free to alter the amounts to suit your family size!
What You’ll Need:
- 8oz lean ground turkey
- Splash of vegetable oil
- 1/2 sweet onion, chopped
- 2 stalks celery, chopped
- 1/4 green pepper, chopped
- 4oz white mushrooms, chopped
- 7oz diced tomatoes, canned (with sauce)
- Salt, pepper, and garlic powder
- Worcestershire sauce
- Ground Parmesan cheese (just a sprinkle)
What You’ll Do:
In a large skillet, brown the turkey in just enough oil to cover the bottom of the pan. When turkey is almost fully-cooked, add onions and celery and cook until soft. Season with salt, pepper, and garlic powder. Add mushrooms and green pepper and continue to cook. When veggies are soft, add tomatoes and Worcestershire sauce and cook an additional 2-3 minutes to incorporate flavors. Serve with warm corn tortillas and sprinkle with a small amount of parmesan cheese.
Nutritional Info:
Turkey mixture, per serving (1/2 of above recipe): 240 calories, 15g fat, 5g carbs, 23g protein
Corn tortillas, each: 50 calories, 0.7g fat, 10.7 carbs, 1.4g protein
Matt can have more calories per day than I can, so he ate a couple of extra tortillas with the yummy turkey mixture inside. That’s not the only way to eat this, however..
I ate mine like this – in a bowl with a spoon and a single tortilla on the side. Yum yum!
Did you try this? What did you think? What did you change? Let me know!
About Erin
Uh these are not Fajitas! they are strips of marinated meat, fried and served (usually in a tortilla)
For the traditional use of “fajita”, you are exactly right! The word directly refers to a type of skirt steak. Nowadays the term is being used more generally to encompass many types of meat cooked with bell peppers and onions and served in a flour or corn tortilla. Either way, they’re yummy!
Thanks for stopping by!
H’ok. After the hurricane that has been Tuesday, Wednesday, and today…I am finally pulling over to read some stuff.
These look tasty!
And since I’m too lazy to meander backwards…the tornado damage is positively kuh-ra-zee
Real fajitas or not, these definitely made my mouth water the second I saw them! Will be making them soon!
Let me know what you think of them! Thanks for commenting!
I made these for dinner tonight. My husband is a picky fajita eater and he said he loved them! I added a little cumin, ground red pepper, and onion salt. My husband said this recipe was definitely a keeper and he likes it better than the packaged mixes we usually buy!
Ooh, I like your revisions! Happy to hear he loved them! Thank you for coming by to tell me!
this was a WONDERFUL recipe! i didn’t have green peppers on hand sadly, but it was still outstanding. added some red-pepper flakes, cumin, and a dash of chili powder and cayenne pepper. served with flour tortillas. hubby devoured them and even had seconds. fantastic!!
I’m so glad you liked it!
Just made these for dinner, but added the following:
2 cloves garlic, chopped
1/2 tsp smoked paprika
1 tsp cumin
1/2 tsp chili powder
1/2 tsp onion granules
Without the addition of the above, they just didn’t have enough flavour for me. I’m not sure that the mixture really lends itself to fajitas, to be honest. It might be good over a baked potato or even as a pasta sauce!
Just made this for dinner and it was fabulous!! I chopped up the veggies really small so my kids would have no idea how much good stuff that they say they don’t like is really in there. They had no idea and almost licked their plates! As did I… Well done!!! Thank you!! Easy for my hubby too – gluten free!
Made these for supper tonight and the whole family loved them. Delicious!
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