Low Carb Ground Turkey Recipes
Low-carb ground turkey recipes — lettuce wraps, stuffed peppers, zucchini boats, and skillet dinners that skip pasta and rice for lean protein and vegetables.
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Only fitting that my first pepper post is of course... peppers!! This is one of my all time favorite dinners because it’s so easy and so filling😋
Michelle TsizhovkinIngredients
- olive oil
- 1/2 cup Yellow Onion
- 2 cloves minced Garlic
- 1 pack Ground Turkey/ meat of choice
- to taste salt
- to taste pepper
- to taste cayenne
- to taste onion powder
- to taste garlic powder
- one jar tomato sauce
- 4 bell peppers
- one cup shredded mozzerella
- a few pieces buffalo mozzarella
Instructions
- 1Preheat the oven to 375.
- 2Sauté onions and garlic in olive oil until onions become transparent
- 3While thats cooking, cut the top off the peppers and scoop any insides out so it’s hollow, and line in a baking tray. I find that using a loaf tin is the most convenient for baking peppers.
- 4If you prefer your peppers on the softer side, bake them in the oven as it’s preheating while cooking the onions, garlic, and meat!
- 5Add your meat of choice to the onions and garlic and cook all the way through, seasoning with salt, pepper, cayenne, onion powder, and garlic powder
- 6Once meat is cooked, add tomato sauce and let simmer for a few minutes
- 7Scoop meat mixture into bell peppers and top with shredded cheese and pieces of buffalo mozzerella. Bake for 7 minutes. After 7 minutes, broil the last two minutes to get the cheese nice and toasty.
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Ground turkey is the low-carb workhorse — cheaper than steak, leaner than beef, and it takes on any seasoning you throw at it.
Cooks on Pepper live in this collection because every recipe hits under 15g of net carbs by swapping the usual pasta or tortilla for lettuce, zucchini, or bell pepper.
Every recipe here builds a full skillet or sheet-pan dinner around a pound of ground turkey — no grains, no starches, just protein and vegetables.
Quick Tips
- 1
93/7 is the sweet spot
Enough fat to stay juicy without pooling grease at the bottom of the pan.
- 2
Season the meat, not the sauce
Ground turkey is bland on its own — a heavy hand with spices before it browns changes everything.
- 3
Lettuce cups over tortillas
Butter lettuce holds a scoop as well as any tortilla and drops the carbs to near zero.
- 4
Add fat back on the side
A drizzle of tahini, avocado, or full-fat feta compensates for lean turkey's lack of richness.
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