This Teriyaki Ground Turkey Rice Bowl is a flavorful and healthy meal featuring lean ground turkey cooked in a sweet and savory teriyaki sauce, served over fluffy rice. Topped with a cooked broccoli slaw, it’s a quick and satisfying dish perfect for any day of the week.
Tasty Teriyaki Ground Turkey
We love bowl recipes around here. Toss a bunch of flavors in a bowl together, often a dressed protein, variety of carb sources, and bound together with healthy fats.
My husband called me a genius for creating this bowl. But really, we enjoyed this two nights in a row and for recipe that is so simple, the flavors in the dish are incredible.
I have a variety of chicken bowls (Hot Honey Chicken Bowl, Buffalo Chicken Rice Bowl) and tons of fish based bowls (like this Chile Lime Shrimp Bowl, California Poke Bowl, Spicy Salmon Bowl, etc) anddd ground beef bowls (Burger Bowls or Nacho Taco Bowls) A LONG WAY TO SAY…a ground turkey bowl was missing from APOP. Alas, we have Teriyaki Ground Turkey Bowls.
I also debated on calling it a Egg Roll in a bowl because it has the best flavor that reminds me of my favorite take out, but whatever you want to call it I’ll assure you this delicious rice bowl recipe will not disappoint. A quick weeknight dinner that the whole family will love is a win for me!
Recipe Ingredients
- Ground Turkey – I used 93% lean, cooked with white onion, garlic and ginger.
- Broccoli Crunch Slaw Salad Kit – I used this one from Taylor Farms. Any similar slaw will do, just make sure it is not lettuce based.
- Teriyaki Sauce – This is comprised of simple ingredients you likely already have on hand: soy sauce, brown sugar, sesame oil, honey and cornstartch.
- White Rice – I used Success Boil-in-Bag White Rice. It is quick and simple to make and you get perfectly fluffy rice every time!
- Toppings – Kewpie mayo, Sriracha, green onions, black sesame seeds and a lime wedge.
See the recipe card below for a full list of ingredients and measurements.
Substitutions and Variations
- Meat: You can of course use any ground meat you’d like: Ground chicken, ground pork, ground beef, etc.
- Different Veggies: Instead of the broccoli slaw kit, use sliced bell peppers, water chestnuts, baby corn, bok choy snow peas, snap peas, green beans or shredded cabbage (think whatever you like in your stir fry).
- Base: Swap the rice for quinoa or cauliflower rice for lower carb.
How to Make This Recipe
1. Prep the rice & cook it first according to package directions. Heat a skillet to medium heat. Once warm, add diced white onion and olive oil with a pinch of salt to start to put the moisture out.
2. Stir for a few minutes. Add the minced garlic and crushed ginger and cook until fragrant. Add the ground turkey to the pan and start to cook.
3. When the meat is 50% cooked, move it to one side of the skillet and add half of the broccoli crunch bag. If all of it will fit in the skillet, add it all now. Cover the skillet and let the meat and vegetables cook for 3-5 minutes.
4. Mix the meat and skillet together; add the remaining vegetables as there should be more room in the pan now. Move the meat mixture to one side of the skillet to make room for the sauce. There may be some residual water; that’s okay.
5. Pour soy sauce, brown sugar, sesame oil, and honey into the open side of the skillet. Whisk together until honey and brown sugar are dissolved. In a small beaker, mix together cornstarch and water until dissolved. Pour the slurry into the teriyaki sauce and whisk. Then pour into the pan.
6. Fold the sauce into the meat mixture. Turn to low heat and let the sauce come to a simmer. It will start to thicken.
7. Build the bowls! Add cooked rice, spoon the teriyaki ground turkey mixture, garnish with chopped green onions, a heafy douse of kewpie mayo and sriracha (optional). Squeeze a lime wedge over each bowl before serving and enjoy! P.S. this makes for great leftovers!
Fun Idea
Instead of making teriyaki turkey bowls make just the ground turkey teriyaki stir fry mixture and load it into iceberg lettuce for some TASTY lettuce wraps.
PRO TIPS
- To make gluten-free use coconut aminos instead of soy sauce and tapioca flour instead of corn starch.
- The prepped broccoli slaw is a great way to sneak veggies into the meat. They’re finely diced so when cooked, the shrink into the meat. A good way to hide it from those picky eaters.
Recipe FAQs
The great thing about this ground turkey teriyaki recipe is that it is GREAT for a tasty meal prep! It holds wonderfully and just needs to be reheated for a quick meal. Store in an airtight container (separate from the cucumber and pepper salad if you’re choosing to serve with that) for 3-4 days.
Ways to simplify this recipe: use store-bought teriyaki sauce, precooked/frozen rice, and even frozen vegetables and/or prepped cabbage like I used in this recipe!
Serving suggestions
My cilantro lime rice would be a perfect base for this recipe! I developed this Cucumber and Pepper No Lettuce Salad, they same week as this teriyaki turkey rice bowl recipe and at the salad with these bowls. Another way to add even MORE vegetables into this meal.
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Teriyaki Ground Turkey Rice Bowl
Equipment
- sauce pan
- deep skillet
- Rubber Spatula
- measuring cups / spoons
- Small bowl
- Whisk
Ingredients
- 2 cups cooked White Rice
- 1/2 small white onion, diced
- 1 tsp olive oil
- Pinch salt
- 1 tbsp minced garlic
- 2 tbsp grated ginger
- 1 lbs 93% lean ground turkey
- 1 bag broccoli crunch slaw salad kit, Taylor Farms brand
Teriyaki Sauce
- ⅓ cup low sodium soy sauce
- 3 tablespoons brown sugar
- 1 tbsp sesame oil
- 2 tbsp Honey
- 2 tbsp Cornstarch
- 2 tbsp water
Toppings
- Kewpie mayo
- Sriracha
- Lime wedge
- Green onion slices
- Black sesame seeds
Instructions
- Prep the rice & cook it first according to package directions. Heat a skillet to medium heat. Once warm, add diced white onion and olive oil with a pinch of salt to start to put the moisture out.
- Stir for a few minutes. Add the minced garlic and crushed ginger and cook until fragrant. Add the ground turkey to the pan and start to cook.
- When the meat is 50% cooked, move it to one side of the skillet and add half of the broccoli crunch bag. If all of it will fit in the skillet, add it all now.
- Cover the skillet and let the meat and vegetables cook for 3-5 minutes.
- Mix the meat and skillet together; add the remaining vegetables as there should be more room in the pan now. Move the meat mixture to one side of the skillet to make room for the sauce. There may be some residual water; that’s okay.
- Pour soy sauce, brown sugar, sesame oil, and honey into the open side of the skillet. Whisk together until honey and brown sugar are dissolved. In a small beaker, mix together cornstarch and water until dissolved. Pour the slurry into the teriyaki sauce and whisk. Fold the sauce into the meat mixture. Turn to low heat and let the sauce come to a simmer. It will start to thicken.
- Build the bowls! Add cooked rice, spoon the teriyaki ground turkey mixture, garnish with chopped green onions, a heafy douse of kewpie mayo and sriracha (optional). Squeeze a lime wedge over each bowl before serving and enjoy!!
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wowza I LOVE this recipe! so many great flavors packed into one bowl. Couldn’t be easier to make.
Court’s Thai Basil Beef recipe is a go to for me, but I think this recipe might make it’s way into the dinner rotation just as often. YUM!
So delicious and quick to pull together!! Definitely adding this to our regular rotation!
This recipe was so easy to follow and SO delicious. I made it on a whim after an exhausting weekend and it was just the Monday pick me up I needed. The flavors mesh impeccably well together and it is so easy to substitute according to dietary preferences. I will definitely be putting this into my rotation.
Thanks for the glowing review, Rachel! Appreciate it!
Load some protein with this bad boy! Soooo good.
Must try! Trust me you will be making this for all your prep meals.