| Level: | Easy |
| Total: | 35 min |
| Prep: | 15 min |
| Cook: | 20 min |
| Yield: | 6 servings |
Ingredients
- 2 tablespoons vegetable oil
- 1/3 cup finely diced white onion
- 1/4 cup finely diced celery
- 1/4 cup finely diced carrot
- 1 ear corn, shucked and kernels removed or 1 cup frozen corn, thawed
- 2 garlic cloves, minced
- 2 jalapenos, stemmed and deveined
- 1 pound ground turkey
- 1 1/2 cups tomato puree
- 1 bay leaf
- 2 sprigs fresh thyme, leaves removed and chopped
- 2 springs fresh oregano, leaves removed and chopped
- Salt and freshly ground black pepper
- 6 hamburger buns
- Serving suggestion: Pickled jalapenos and avocado slices.
Instructions
- In a large saucepan, heat the oil over medium-high heat. Add the onion and celery and cook until translucent. Add the carrot, corn kernels, garlic, and jalapeno. Cook for 5 minutes. Add the ground turkey and saute until cooked through. Stir in the tomato puree, bay leaf, thyme, oregano and salt and pepper, to taste. Reduce the heat to medium, cover the pan and cook for 10 minutes. Discard the bay leaf.
- Put about 1/4 cup of the picadillo into each hamburger bun. Serve warm with pickled jalapenos and avocado slices.
Nutrition Facts
| Serving Size | 1 of 6 servings |
| Calories | 330 |
| Total Fat | 13 g |
| Saturated Fat | 2 g |
| Carbohydrates | 34 g |
| Dietary Fiber | 4 g |
| Sugar | 8 g |
| Protein | 21 g |
| Cholesterol | 52 mg |
| Sodium | 546 mg |
Reviews
Our family thinks these are terrific. For an easy, but very tasty meal, this is a good standby for us!
Very Tasty! Love Your Recipes, Keep it Up.
Very tasty, my husband even liked it and he usually only likes the same old sloppy Joe recipe. I added the pickled jalapenos and guacamole slices to mine and loved it.
I didn’t like it….sorry! I love some of the other recipes she creates but this one wasn’t my fave. I didn’t put the carrots or corn because my hubby doesn’t like that sort of thing…I only used one jalapeno and that was plenty spicy. Like I said, my hubby loved it and cleaned out the pan. I didn’t care for it…won’t stop me from using Mexican Made Easy recipes, though!
It was pretty mild considering 2 chopped jalapenos were added. But it is still flavorful with the thyme, oregano and bay leaf. We used it with guacamole for burritos or a salad. I really liked the simplicity and versatility of this dish; you can add more if you like spicy or leave as is. This will be a go-to recipe for daily meals because I usually have all these ingredients on hand. Thank you, Marcela!
Bland, despite the extra help of addl spices.
It was just ok. Without the avocado slices, it would have been bland. I added extra spices too. It was moist as the turkey did not dry out. Overall I wouldn’t make it again. Maybe it just wasn’t what I expected?
This dish was missing the ‘wow’ factor, it needed some spice. The avocado and pickled jalapeno worked well as garnishes. I’ll make this again since it’s a healthy dish, but I’ll work on the spices a bit – maybe another jalapeno or 2 and/or some crushed red pepper.
Conceptually this initial recipe was great, we loved the texuture; however, for our taste we found that it needed more spice, some cayenne pepper and chili powder and a bit of tomato paste. We also salted a bit more. I do not care for sloppy Joes, but this I loved.
Quick and easy. We saw the show this morning – thought I had pretty much everything on hand. . . Had to make some substitutions – didn’t have fresh herbs so used dried, didn’t use fresh jalapeno – used the pickled ones, used canned corn instead of frozen or fresh and when I cut into my avocado – it wasn’t good – so no avocado. I topped mine with chopped cilantro and the jalapenos! It was still very good! Running back to the store to get a new avocado and some fresh jalapenos for later this evening – having leftovers.