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Wondering what to make tonight? Quickly throw together this hearty one pot meal of turkey and potatoes! Serve over roasted veggies, traditional rice, or cauliflower rice for a healthy and satisfying dinner.
This Ground Turkey & Potato Skillet was loosely inspired by a classic picadillo. It has very different flavors – a picadillo includes olives and raisins. That’s not going to fly with my children. Or my husband, if I’m being honest. But I wanted to take that general idea and make it family friendly with very simple ingredients. We all need hobbies and that’s mine.
This meal is an accurate reflection of my favorite kind of meal to make at home. It may not be the prettiest, but it’s tasty. The addition of potatoes keeps it hearty. And it’s just so easy! This is exactly the sort of comfort food I need in my life right now. How about you?
To create this meal, you’ll start by seasoning and browning the ground turkey. Set aside. (Of course you can easily use a lean ground beef if that’s what you have on hand or prefer.)
Then the potatoes go in the pan to get a little color. Now incorporate the turkey, garlic, tomato sauce, water, and more seasonings. Reduce the heat, cover, and let it all simmer until your potatoes are tender.
It’s next to impossible to screw this up. It’s just that easy!
What potatoes are best to use?
I prefer yellow or gold potatoes. But russet, sweet, or red would all work beautifully too!
How to serve this skillet meal?
Oh there are so many ways to serve up this easy meal. You can clearly enjoy it as is and it’s just perfect. Flavorful. Healthy. Satiating thanks to those potatoes.
But perhaps you want to add something to stretch this dish a bit further? I know I always like something green on our plates! Pile this delicious combo of turkey and potatoes over roasted veggies like my Spicy Roasted Broccoli or Easy Roasted Broccoli (if you don’t like heat). That will give you an added boost of vegetables! This is also crazy delicious over traditional or cauliflower rice!
Other veggies that work beautifully either layered under or just served beside this skillet meal are Garlic Green Beans, Simple Sautéed Cabbage, or Roasted Green Beans with Almonds.
Want to add a salad to your meal? My Blueberry Citrus Salad or my Berry Avocado Salad have a hint of sweetness which will balance out the strong flavor of this popular dish!
No matter how you choose to serve this, you’re going to love it. This recipe earns rave reviews on Instagram for good reason!
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Ground Turkey & Potato Skillet
Ingredients
Ground Turkey
- 1 lb lean ground turkey, I use 93/7. You can use ground beef if you prefer.
- 1 tsp salt
- 1/2 tsp black pepper
- 1/2 tsp garlic powder
- 1/2 tsp chili powder
- 1/2 tsp dried oregano
Potatoes
- 2 tbsp olive or avocado oil
- 4 cups diced potatoes, Dice small to ensure they cook quickly.
- 8 oz canned tomato sauce
- 1/2 cup water
- 2 tsp garlic, minced
- 1 tsp dried oregano
- 1 tsp dried basil
- 1/2 tsp dried parsley
- 1/2 tsp salt
- 1/2 tsp black pepper
- 1/2 tsp onion powder
Instructions
- Add your ground turkey (or beef) to a skillet on the stovetop. Use your spatula to crumble the meat. Cook on medium high, stirring occasionally, until browned. Stir in salt, pepper, garlic powder, chili powder, and oregano. Remove from pan and set aside.
- Add the oil to the skillet. Once the oil is hot, add the diced potatoes. Sauté on medium high heat, stirring occasionally until sides of potatoes have browned. This can take 5 to 10 minutes depending on your stove and the size of your potatoes.
- Reduce heat to medium. Add your cooked ground turkey, tomato sauce, water, minced garlic, oregano, basil, parsley, salt, pepper, and onion powder to the skillet with potatoes. Cover and simmer for 5 minutes, or until potatoes are tender.
- Taste and add more salt or pepper if desired.
- Serve over roasted vegetables (I recommend my Spicy Roasted Broccoli or Easy Roasted Broccoli), traditional rice, or cauliflower rice.
Nutrition
Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.
I used Spanish tomato sauce, added some sazon, and used adobo instead of salt, and served it over rice! Taste like pollo guisado with ground turkey! It was delicious!!!
Didn’t have tomato sauce, so substituted with one cup of salsa. This was really delicious!
Great recipe, followed it exactly how it was wrote came out delicious. Thank yoh
This looks delicious! My family loves taco night so will have to try this recipe soon!
Just not tasty…it looked good in the picture, but it just didn’t taste good.
I love this! My 6 year old son loves it and I added some shredded carrots too. It’s really delicious and easy.
I want to make this-it sounds perfect and has rave reviews. I don’t have canned tomato sauce. I have canned tomato paste and canned diced and crushed tomatoes. I also have basic Prego traditional spaghetti sauce. Will any combination of these be acceptable or must I wait for the next grocery trip? 🙂
I haven’t tested them with those but I’d assume you could make it work and just see a minor change in the end result. 😉
We make this often at our house since trying it from your recipe. Thanks for sharing!!
I always have ground turkey or meat of some kind and I’ve been trying to think of new ways to cook it … this is awesome because I can switch up the veggies I serve it over. The spice mixture is awesome-kinda Italian/Hispanic-ish
I’ve made it twice now in a week and a half!
The only thing I’ve encountered is it usually takes an extra 5 minutes of cooking the potatoes with everything in them. (Though I may be using bigger chunks).
So glad you enjoyed and thank you for taking the time to leave a rating! Yes, potatoes can definitely take longer if they’re in larger chunks!
The directions are very confusing for this recipe and the spices don’t line up with the first step for meat and the third step for potatoes (ie it says minced garlic but then garlic powder, chili powder isn’t listed as an ingredient but then says to be added?)
Hi Laura, both garlic powder and chili powder are listed as ingredients under Turkey. I think you may not be looking at the complete ingredient list. Every ingredient is there.
This was amazing. I didn’t have onion powder so I minced up an onion. Even my pickiest eater loved it and wanted 2nds.
I’m so glad! Thank you for trying it, Valorie!