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

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Thai Style Turkey with Lime Cilantro Faux Rice

Prep Time

20 mins

Cook Time

15 mins

Total Time

35 mins

 

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.

Course: gluten free, low carb, paleo

Cuisine: Thai

Servings: 4

Calories: 250 kcal

Author: Stacey

Ingredients

• 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
• 1/2 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)
• 1/4 Tsp to 1/2 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

1. Combine: Fish Sauce, Red pepper flakes, Coconut sugar, and 1/2 Cup water in a large frying Pan, and simmer over medium high heat.
2. Spoon medium size clumps of raw, ground turkey meat into the fry pan.
3. Break up meat with spoon while cooking, until meat is no longer pink.
4. Stir and cook for a couple for minutes to reduce sauce a little.
5. Remove from heat and Add : Lime juice, Green onion, Cilantro, Mint, and Sriracha.
6. Stir it all together. Cover and set aside. Prepare Faux Rice as directed below.
7. Lime Cilantro Faux Rice:
8. Grind up Cauliflower in processor, or blender, until rice like texture is formed (can use grater as well).
9. Put ground cauliflower in glass bowl and microwave for 5 minutes.
10. Heat olive oil in fry pan over medium high heat, and add Cauliflower.
11. Stir cauliflower in pan for a couple minutes.
12. Add Lime juice, and stir.
13. Remove from heat and stir in cilantro.
14. Serve Turkey meat over Faux Rice and Sprinkle Ground Cashews on top.

Recipe Notes

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

Nutrition Facts

Thai Style Turkey with Lime Cilantro Faux Rice

Amount Per Serving (1 g)

Calories 250 Calories from Fat 108

% Daily Value*

Total Fat 12g 18%

Total Carbohydrates 9g 3%

Dietary Fiber 3.9g 16%

Sugars 1.4g

Protein 26g 52%

* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2000 calorie diet.

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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