Best uses for turkey?

You need some spice in your life! Take that same simple recipe and slice up a single habanero into it. I promise that you won't melt your face off. I also promise that your tongue will come alive. If you want you can add more but be careful because the heat goes from a sweet tongue tingling heat to OMG if you over do it.

Stay away from my tongue, buster.  I'm the one you adopted.  Beside, it's an improv, a basic guideline, not a "recipe."  The Rotel has jalapeno and the TJ corn salsa is black-peppery.  You stick to your habanero and I'll stick to my jalapeno 'n stuff.

Well I don't cook that much but back when I did buy ground turkey I'd put in a bunch of different spices along with chopped onions & peppers, worchester sauce & cooked them like burgers.

A sleep aid  hahaha. 

I LOVE ground turkey! It makes for the best turkey burgers, lettuce wrap tacos, mini meat loafs (Eggface recipe), spaghetti sauce for zucchini spaghetti using spiralizer, ground turkey stuffed bell peppers and turkey meatballs! I love adding parsley and onions to my ground turkey burgers. Add's flavor.

I am a pretty avid cook -- and I so want to like ground turkey but I just don't.  As other posters have noted, it just doesn't taste very good on it's own.  It need to be seasoned very generously to taste good -- and frankly, I find it best when I combine it as a bulking agent for ground chuck or sirloin.  In other words, I use it in addition to a more flavorful meat.

That said, I have used it in taco meat, chili, stuffed peppers, spaghetti sauce, stuffed cabbage, lasagna (which is really just and extension of spaghetti sauce), stews, and in meatballs.  I have made burgers with it -- but it required a lot of spices/seasoning to make it tasty for my family's palate.  Mind you, we like our food seasoned -- so maybe that has something to do with it.

I will confess that I do use 3 lbs of ground turkey every week -- to make my dogs' food via the crockpot.  If you'd like a great dog food recipe, I'd be happy to share that!

I'd LOVE a dog food recipe! When my puppies need some extra love, I cook up chicken thighs and brown rice with frozen carrots, but if you've got something in the crockpot that would be even better :)

It's so hard Julie... 

3 lbs ground turkey (I buy a 6 lb tube for cheap, cut it in half and freeze for the next week -- put it in frozen)

two large carrots chopped into 1/2 pieces

2 sweet potatoes diced into chunks

3/4 brown or white rice

3/4 cup whole barley

diced string beans or frozen peas

3 cups of water (I often use part whey water from making my yogurt)

optional: nutritional yeast (when I remember) and crushed up egg shells from my chickens when I have extra.  I usually run them through the processor so they are a powder

Throw it all in the crock -- cook on low for about 6 hours.  Let cool completely.  Store in the fridge.  It lasts a week feeding a 15 year old food obsessed lab and a small malta-poo in addition to their high quality dry food.  It has been really beneficial for my old dog who suffers in the winter.

I am still post op and am not following any specific eating plan yet, but I have made turkey meatloaf with eggs and a package of stove top stuffing and it turned out really well.  

Ground turkey? I meat use ot for cattle feed, but they probably won't touch it.