If you’re looking for easy, healthy dinners that won’t break the budget, ground turkey is a great ingredient to keep on hand.
It’s versatile, lean, and works perfectly in everything from comforting soups and hearty chili to simple stir fry meals and family favorite casseroles.
Whether you’re cooking for busy weeknights, meal prepping for the week, or trying to sneak more veggies into dinner, ground turkey makes it easy to create flavorful meals the whole family will enjoy.
In this roundup of 12 ground turkey recipes, you’ll find a variety of simple dinner ideas including turkey meatballs, sloppy Joes, chili, soup, meatloaf, and quick stir fry dishes packed with veggies.
Many recipes include rice, quinoa, pasta, and potatoes for filling meals that are perfect for families, picky eaters, and kid friendly dinners.
With quick skillet meals, Instant Pot recipes, and even fun muffin tin options, these easy ground turkey dinners are perfect for busy nights when you need something healthy and delicious on the table fast.
Ground Turkey Recipes
Turkey Sloppy Joes are an easy dinner recipe perfect for busy weeknights. These tasty sandwiches are loaded with ground turkey tossed in a homemade sloppy joe sauce.
Instant Pot Cheesy Pasta and Turkey is an easy and delicious one pot pasta dish smothered in a creamy cheese sauce.
Turkey Meatloaf is an easy ground turkey recipe packed with all the flavours of Thanksgiving. This 2 pound turkey meatloaf is made with Stove Top stuffing and topped with cranberry sauce.
Instant Pot Turkey Chili is an easy pressure cooker chili recipe using ground turkey, chunky salsa, chili sauce, mixed beans and taco seasoning.
Ground Turkey and Potato Casserole is an easy dinner recipe that is loaded with potatoes, vegetables and turkey. The gluten free sauce not only adds moisture but flavour as well.
Turkey Dinner Sloppy Joes are an easy weeknight dinner recipe made with ground turkey and loaded with gravy, stove top stuffing mix, cranberry sauce and Havarti cheese all on served on Brioche buns.
Ground Turkey and Rice is a simple and delicious one pot dinner recipe using brown and wild rice loaded with diced carrots, celery onion and ground turkey cooked in chicken broth and tossed with soy sauce.
Turkey Meatloaf Muffins are an easy ground turkey dinner recipe perfect for weeknights.
Korean Meatballs are delicious turkey meatballs with a sweet and spicy glaze.
Ground Turkey Stir Fry is an easy weeknight dinner recipe loaded with bell peppers, broccoli, green onions and cashews all cooked in a sweet and savoury stir fry sauce seasoned with fresh garlic and ginger.
Instant Pot South-West Style Turkey with Quinoa is a quick one pot dinner recipe to warm you up this fall and winter. It is loaded with flavour and can be served with a variety of toppings.
Turkey Lentil Soup is a hearty soup loaded with ground turkey, brown lentils, celery, carrots, onion and diced tomatoes.
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