One-Skillet Sweet Potato Turkey Bowl
Ground turkey, sweet potato, spinach, and bell pepper — all cooked in one skillet on the stovetop, no oven needed. The sweet potato steams under a lid with a splash of broth while the turkey browns. Top with cold cottage cheese, avocado, and hot honey. The fastest version in this bowl series.
Ingredients
- 500 glean ground turkey
- 500 gsweet potatoes
- 1 piecebell pepper
- 100 gbaby spinach
- 200 gcottage cheese
- 2 pieceavocados
- 2 tbsphot honey
- 2 tbspolive oil
- 3 piecegarlic cloves
- 1 tspsmoked paprika
- 1 tspcumin
- 0.5 tspchili powder
- 0.5 tspgarlic powder
- 1 tspsalt
- 0.5 tspblack pepper
- 4 tbspchicken or vegetable broth
Method
- Peel and dice the sweet potatoes into small 1 to 1.5 cm cubes. Dice the bell pepper. Mince the garlic.
- Heat 1 tablespoon olive oil in a large skillet over medium-high heat. Add the ground turkey and break it apart. Cook 5 to 6 minutes until browned. Push the turkey to one side.
- Add the remaining oil. Add garlic and stir for 30 seconds, then add the sweet potato cubes and bell pepper. Stir everything together with the turkey.
- Pour in the broth, season with paprika, cumin, chili powder, garlic powder, salt, and pepper. Cover with a lid and cook on medium heat for 8 to 10 minutes until the sweet potato is fork-tender.
- Turn off the heat. Add the spinach and stir — residual heat wilts it in about a minute.
- Spoon into four bowls. Add cottage cheese and half an avocado to each. Drizzle with hot honey.
FAQ
Everything cooks in one pan on the stovetop, no oven needed. Saves 20 to 25 minutes of oven pre-roasting. The sweet potato comes out soft and tender rather than caramelized.
Cut small — 1 to 1.5 cm cubes. Add broth, cover with lid for 8 to 10 minutes on medium heat. The steam cooks the potato from the inside out.
Volume, color, and moisture. Spinach adds moisture that stops the turkey from drying out. Bell pepper adds mild sweetness and crunch.
Cut avocado to a quarter, use low-fat cottage cheese, reduce hot honey to a teaspoon. Can bring it from 490 to 380-400 kcal.
One-skillet refers to the hot part. Cottage cheese, avocado, and hot honey go into the bowl cold, as toppings. Do not add cottage cheese to the hot skillet — it will break.
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Salt the lean ground turkey at least 30 minutes before cooking one-skillet sweet potato turkey bowl, or right before — never in between. Salt draws moisture to the surface; given 30+ minutes it reabsorbs. At 10 minutes, it's just sitting there making things wet.