Thai-Style Ground Turkey and Green Beans {20-Minute Meal}

Flavorful and SO quick, this Thai-style floor turkey with inexperienced beans is a brilliant straightforward and scrumptious weeknight meal!

I really like easy and tasty dinners, and this one has turn out to be an enormous household favourite! P.S. It makes unbelievable lunch leftovers, too.

It is tasty served over rice with flatbread or naan bread, however this can be very delish served sans carbs (by no means thought I’d say that, since I really like me some carbs).

If serving with rice, start the rice cooking earlier than embarking on this recipe. This meal comes collectively so rapidly that you simply’ll simply be ready on the rice to complete cooking for those who don’t start with the tip in thoughts.

The Flavor is within the Sauce

The sauce for this Thai-style floor turkey and inexperienced beans is loaded with taste. Just a little candy, slightly salty, slightly spicy.

• oyster or hoisin sauce
• broth
• soy sauce
• chili garlic sauce
• tiny little bit of brown sugar

The warmth stage could be largely moderated by how a lot chili garlic sauce you add. As written, it’s on the delicate finish of spicy, so add kind of chili garlic sauce relying on how spicy you want issues.

Thai Basil vs Sweet Basil

If you will discover Thai basil, it’s distinctive right here. (I often develop it in my minimalist backyard yearly, only for recipes like this.) It provides distinctive earthy, anise flavored notes that go with the straightforward floor meat and inexperienced beans completely.

Regular, candy basil (like the type utilized in pesto or Italian dishes) could be subbed for the Thai basil. The taste will probably be a bit completely different – much less pungent and extra natural and ctirusy – however nonetheless scrumptious.

Either method, recent basil actually does elevate this dish to one thing particular.

The completed dish isn’t overly saucy, however wow, that sauce undoubtedly packs a serious taste punch. I feel extra sauce might simply overpower the opposite substances (and make every part too salty), however you could possibly strive doubling the sauce if you’d like extra of it. 

We’ve been eating this meal on repeat. And I’ve been hoarding the leftovers, not even going to lie about that. BEST LUNCH.

I’m unsure why everybody insists they nonetheless must eat dinner in the summertime months when it’s one million levels and dinnertime is bizarre and I need a break from all issues associated to cooking dinner (bear in mind, I nonetheless wish to EAT dinner, however I doth not wish to COOK dinner).

Thank goodness for meals like this. It checks all of the containers: quick, straightforward, healthful and scrumptious. And as a result of it’s on the desk in half-hour and requires little or no mind energy, my will to reside can proceed on till the subsequent dinnertime comes round.

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Thai-Style Ground Turkey and Green Beans {20-Minute Meal}

Yield: 6 servings

Prep Time: 10 minutes minutes

Cook Time: 10 minutes minutes

• ¼ cup rooster broth
• ¼ cup oyster or hoisin sauce
• 2 tablespoons low-sodium soy sauce
• 1 tablespoon chili garlic sauce
• 1 teaspoon brown sugar
• 1 ½ kilos lean floor turkey or floor rooster
• 12 to 16 ounces recent inexperienced beans, trimmed and minimize into 1-inch items
• ½ cup recent Thai or candy basil, chopped or torn into small items

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• In a small bowl or liquid measuring cup, whisk collectively the broth, oyster or hoisin sauce, soy sauce, chili garlic sauce, and brown sugar. Set apart.

• In a 12-inch skillet set over medium warmth, add the bottom turkey with a pinch of salt and pepper. Cook, breaking the meat into small items, till now not pink, 5 to six minutes. Off the warmth, drain extra grease.

• Return the skillet to medium warmth. Whisk the sauce to recombine and add to the skillet. Give the meat and sauce a fast stir.

• Add the inexperienced beans. Bring to a delicate simmer, cowl, and prepare dinner for 3 to five minutes till the beans are crisp-tender (add further time for extra tender inexperienced beans).

• Add the basil. Give every part a very good stir to deliver the sauce up from the underside of the pan. Serve instantly. It is scrumptious by itself or served over scorching, cooked rice with flatbread or naan.

Rice: if serving over rice, start the rice cooking earlier than starting the recipe. 
Sauce: the completed dish isn’t overly saucy, however the sauce undoubtedly packs a serious taste punch. More sauce might simply over energy the opposite substances (and make every part too salty), however you could possibly strive doubling the sauce if you’d like extra of it. 

Author: Mel

Course: Main Course

Cuisine: Asian

Method: Stovetop

Serving: 1 serving, Calories: 159kcal, Carbohydrates: 7g, Protein: 28g, Fat: 2g, Saturated Fat: 1g, Cholesterol: 62mg, Sodium: 695mg, Fiber: 2g, Sugar: 3g

Recipe Source: impressed by a recipe within the Food Network Magazine June/July 2024 (modified sauce recipe, decreased basil, elevated floor turkey and inexperienced beans, and so forth)