Thai Style Turkey with Lime Cilantro Faux Rice
Thai Style Turkey with Lime Cilantro Faux Rice is a simple-to-make, budget-friendly, flavorful low-carb, and paleo Thai-inspired dish.
Thai Style Turkey with Cilantro Lime Cauliflower Rice is a paleo and low carb, Thai inspired treat. Sometimes I just crave Thai food. But I'm afraid if I go to a restaurant, I will go crazy and eat all the pineapple rice. This recipe really helps satisfy my " must have Thai food" cravings.
This recipe is an easy, no- brainer and very budget friendly since it uses ground turkey.
It is also excellent is lettuce cups if you don't feel up to making cauliflower rice. I love it with the faux rice and the lettuce cups.
This my version of Larb. Larb is a Thai dish that most Thai restaurants will have and is made with ground turkey or pork. I like to add hot chili sauce to mine but I know that may be too spicy for some people.
RECIPE AND DIRECTIONS BELOW
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Thai Style Turkey with Lime Cilantro Faux Rice
Ingredients
- Thai Style Turkey :
- 1 lb Ground Turkey or Chicken or pork ( not the super lean one)
- 3 tablespoon Fish Sauce like this one, make sure anchovies and salt are only ingredients
- 1 teaspoon red pepper flakes like this one
- ½ Cup Water
- 1 teaspoon Coconut sugar or Honey, or for low carb use 1 teaspoon erythritol
- 3 tablespoon Lime Juice
- 2 Green Onion Minced *optional (not everybody likes onions)
- 2 tablespoon Cilantro chopped
- 2 tablespoon Mint Chopped
- 1 tablespoon Toasted Ground Cashews* optional ( Toast a handful of cashews in toaster oven till golden, cool and grind up in coffee grinder till coarse ground, not powdered)
- ¼ teaspoon to ½ Sriracha type Chili sauce check ingredients* optional ( for spicy people)
- Lime Cilantro Faux Rice :
- 1 Medium Head of Cauliflower Chop just the flower part, not the stalks.
- 1 tablespoon Olive Oil I use the Garlic infused olive oil
- 2 tablespoon Lime Juice
- 2 tablespoon Cilantro chopped
Instructions
- Combine: Fish Sauce, Red pepper flakes, Coconut sugar, and ½ Cup water in a large frying Pan, and simmer over medium high heat.
- Spoon medium size clumps of raw, ground turkey meat into the fry pan.
- Break up meat with spoon while cooking, until meat is no longer pink.
- Stir and cook for a couple for minutes to reduce sauce a little.
- Remove from heat and Add : Lime juice, Green onion, Cilantro, Mint, and Sriracha.
- Stir it all together. Cover and set aside. Prepare Faux Rice as directed below.
- Lime Cilantro Faux Rice:
- Grind up Cauliflower in processor, or blender, until rice like texture is formed (can use grater as well).
- Put ground cauliflower in glass bowl and microwave for 5 minutes.
- Heat olive oil in fry pan over medium high heat, and add Cauliflower.
- Stir cauliflower in pan for a couple minutes.
- Add Lime juice, and stir.
- Remove from heat and stir in cilantro.
- Serve Turkey meat over Faux Rice and Sprinkle Ground Cashews on top.
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Notes
Nutrition
Nutrition Facts: Yield:4, Amount per serving: Calories: 250, Fat: 12 g, Carbohydrates: 9 g/ Net Carbs : 5.1 g, Sugar: 1.4 g, Fiber: 3.9 g, Protein: 26 g
*All nutritional data are estimates based on the products I used*
alejandro says
in the instruction you mention add shiracha but is not in the ingredient , how much shiracha?
Stacey says
Alejandro, It is in the ingredient list right below the ground cashews and above the lime cilantro rice: 1/4 to 1/2 tsp Sriracha to taste.
Rachel says
This looks YUMMY! Do you mind me asking which brand of fish sauce you use?
Stacey says
Hi Rachel, I used Thai Kitchen Premium Fish Sauce. It only has the anchovies and salt. Its gluten free and soy free too. There probably is an organic brand out there, although I could not find it my area.
sincerely, Stacey
Rachel says
Thanks 🙂
Stacey says
You are most welcome, Rachel!
🙂 Stacey