Low Sodium Mexican Brown Rice & Turkey
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- Number of Servings: 8
Ingredients
2 cups brown rice (cooked)1 lb 94% lean turkey2 medium tomatoes2 servings Chef Meg's Taco Seasoning1 medium onion1/2 cup mozzarella cheese
1. Cook rice according to package directions. (If you use a big pot, you can mix other ingredients in once everything else is cooked.
2. During last 15 minutes of rice cooking time, pour olive oil into a pan to cook the turkey. Heat pan and cook turkey over medium heat. Add 1/2 of Chef Meg Taco Seasoning (ingredients: 3 t chili powder, 1 t ground cumin & 1 t red pepper flakes). Drain any excess fat.
3. Add turkey to rice once it is cooked and mix together.
4. Chop onion finely and use a blender to mostly puree the tomatoes & fresh cilantro. You want some chunks of tomato but mostly you are making a sauce out of the tomatoes. Add the remaining seasoning to this mixture and blend.
5. Pour tomato mixture over the rice and turkey. Heat on medium heat for about 10 minutes.
6. Sprinkle cheese on plates.
"Makes 8 3/4 cup servings."
Number of Servings: 8
Recipe submitted by SparkPeople user STUBBSKID69.
2. During last 15 minutes of rice cooking time, pour olive oil into a pan to cook the turkey. Heat pan and cook turkey over medium heat. Add 1/2 of Chef Meg Taco Seasoning (ingredients: 3 t chili powder, 1 t ground cumin & 1 t red pepper flakes). Drain any excess fat.
3. Add turkey to rice once it is cooked and mix together.
4. Chop onion finely and use a blender to mostly puree the tomatoes & fresh cilantro. You want some chunks of tomato but mostly you are making a sauce out of the tomatoes. Add the remaining seasoning to this mixture and blend.
5. Pour tomato mixture over the rice and turkey. Heat on medium heat for about 10 minutes.
6. Sprinkle cheese on plates.
"Makes 8 3/4 cup servings."
Number of Servings: 8
Recipe submitted by SparkPeople user STUBBSKID69.
Nutritional Info Amount Per Serving
- Calories: 206.4
- Total Fat: 9.1 g
- Cholesterol: 49.3 mg
- Sodium: 125.3 mg
- Total Carbs: 15.4 g
- Dietary Fiber: 1.9 g
- Protein: 16.5 g
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