Thai Style Turkey with Lime Cilantro Faux Rice

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

Thai Style Turkey with Lime Cilantro Faux Rice

Stacey

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.

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Prep Time 20 mins

Cook Time 15 mins

Total Time 35 mins

Course gluten free, low carb, paleo

Cuisine Thai

Servings 4

Calories 250 kcal

Ingredients

  

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• Thai Style Turkey :
• 1 lb Ground Turkey or Chicken or pork ( not the super lean one)
• 3 Tbsp Fish Sauce like this one, make sure anchovies and salt are only ingredients
• 1 Tsp red pepper flakes like this one
• ½ Cup Water
• 1 Tsp Coconut sugar or Honey, or for low carb use 1 tsp erythritol
• 3 Tbsp Lime Juice
• 2 Green Onion Minced *optional (not everybody likes onions)
• 2 Tbsp Cilantro chopped
• 2 Tbsp Mint Chopped
• 1 Tbsp 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 Tsp 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 Tbsp Olive Oil I use the Garlic infused olive oil
• 2 Tbsp Lime Juice
• 2 Tbsp 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

Can make the Faux Rice in advance, for a faster prep time.

Nutrition

Serving: 1gCalories: 250kcalCarbohydrates: 9gProtein: 26gFat: 12gFiber: 3.9gSugar: 1.4g

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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*

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