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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.
Update: This recipe was originally published in 2020 and has been republished with all new photos.
This Ground Turkey and 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?
Ingredients for Ground Turkey and Potato Skillet
- Ground turkey: Lean ground turkey or lean ground beef are both great options. Another lean ground meat like ground chicken can also be used.
- Potatoes: I prefer yellow or gold potatoes. Russet, sweet, or red would all work beautifully too!
- Olive or avocado oil: The oil helps sauté the diced potatoes until tender. I recommend olive or avocado oil but you can use any oil you’re comfortable cooking with.
- Canned tomato sauce: You can find canned tomato sauce in the grocery store on the aisle with canned tomatoes. This will add a rich tomato flavor to our dish.
- Garlic: You can mince your own garlic or use a jarred variety.
- Seasonings: Dried oregano, dried basil, dried parsley, chili powder, garlic powder, onion powder, salt, and black pepper are the simple herbs and spices we’ll use to flavor this one pot meal. You can also experiment with whatever you have in your own pantry!
How to Make Ground Turkey and Potato Skillet
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!
How to Serve This
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 Easy Homemade Italian Dressing will beautifully flavor a side salad.
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 and Potato Skillet
Ingredients
Ground Turkey
- 1 pound lean ground turkey, I use 93/7. You can use ground beef if you prefer.
- 1 teaspoon salt
- ½ teaspoon black pepper
- ½ teaspoon garlic powder
- ½ teaspoon chili powder
- ½ teaspoon dried oregano
Potatoes
- 2 tablespoons olive or avocado oil
- 4 cups diced potatoes, Dice small to ensure they cook quickly.
- 8 ounces canned tomato sauce
- ½ cup water
- 2 teaspoon garlic, minced
- 1 teaspoon dried oregano
- 1 teaspoon dried basil
- ½ teaspoon dried parsley
- ½ teaspoon salt
- ½ teaspoon black pepper
- ½ teaspoon 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.
This recipe was easy and very tasty. I have a picky eater and he said ” Delicious”. Definitely a recipe worth keeping.
Oh I love that! Thank you!
Tried and love this recipe! Definitely adding into our rotation!
Made this for dinner tonight! Winner! So tasty…served it with the roasted spicy broccoli. Comforting food for a cold night.
Everything went great with this recipe except for the amount of salt and pepper needed. I found my recipe to be a tad on the bland side without an ample increase of both. Otherwise, an easy recipe to follow and I even added some shaved carrot pieces toward the end for a little different texture. Served it with Jasmine rice. Table of 4 happy people. Thanks.
I would use onion when cooking the turkey. It needs that flavor. Other than that, this was VERY easy and I’m using it to meal prep which is very nice. I enjoyed making this. My parents used what I had left over for breakfast in a breakfast burrito with cheese! Really good, too 👍🏼
Great recipe!!!
It has become one of my family’s favorite.
This is lovely! Thank you so much!
Great recipe! I also added 1 pepper and 1 onion and some mushrooms it’s so delicious 🤤😍
Love the additions! Thanks, Jenna!
I cut the salt by half in all the steps and it was delicious! I roasted frozen french cut green beans and stirred them in at the last step. I also added a can of diced tomatoes. Thank you we loved it!
I was surprised by how spaghetti-ish this was and was a little hesitant as I plated it. My spaghetti hating husband said it was delicious (I thought so too) and I liked getting to have spaghetti flavors without noodles.
This was really tasty. I added half an onion when browning the potatoes. I will
definitely make this again.