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Recipe – Turkey with Rice

August 16, 2011 Leave a comment

TURKEY WITH VEGETABLE RICE 

You can use any meat for this simple nutritious recipe. Use turkey, chicken or beef roughly cut in thin slices. You can also use left over meat as well. 

Ingredients – for 2 people 

300 grams turkey breast chopped/sliced

1 medium onion finely chopped

2 cloves chopped garlic

½ inch of chopped ginger

½ tspn mixed herbs

¼ tspn cayenne 

2 large carrots

200 grams green beans 

¾ cup brown rice

1 tspn turmeric

2 tomatoes chopped and skinned.

Method: 

  1. Dice the carrots small and chop green beans about ½ inch in length and cook together until almost done. Drain liquid and KEEP the liquid for later. Put vegetables to one side.
  2. Put the rice in a pan and cover with water including the vegetable water which contains nutrients from the carrots and beans. (See rice cooking method for cooking brown rice). Add turmeric and tomato and bring to boil and cook until almost ready (al dente). Add the pre cooked vegetables and continue cooking until the rice is cooked. Add sea salt and pepper to taste.
  3. While the rice is cooking put olive oil and a little butter in a pan and add onion, garlic and ginger and cook gently for a few minutes then add turkey pieces.Stir fry together adding the mixed herbs and cayenne until the turkey is ready.

          Serve the rice and turkey together and you have an easy to cook healthy meal  

You can find lots more healthy recipes in my book The Nutrition Diet and Recipe Book available free at www.obooko.com (under Health and Self Improvement)                                                   

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