Quick and Easy Turkey Stir Fry- 15 Minute Recipe (2024)

This is the easiest turkey stir fry! Tender minced turkey, colourful vegetables, and fluffy rice all come together with savoury garlic, spicy ginger, and a sweet and spicy sauce to create an incredible, easy dinner that your family will love. The vibrant colours and textures of this easy recipe will please even your pickiest eaters!

When it comes to quick and easy family dinners nothing beats a stir fry. You can try some other favourites like this beef stir fry, or salmon stir fry. You'll want to add them to your one pan and budget dinner recipe rotation.

🧾 Essential stir fry ingredients

• Protein- turkey mince is low in fat and high in protein and has a very mild flavour making it a great choice for stir fry where it pairs with bold flavours.
• Sauce- The perfect stir fry sauce has a balance of spicy, salty, sweet, and sour. This homemade Asian-style sauce uses soy sauce, teriyaki sauce, chili paste, and lime juice, to get a perfect balance and fresh garlic and ginger for aromatics.
• Vegetables- you can use any vegetables for stir-frying, red onion and broccoli being two of the most popular.
• Rice- or noodles. You can serve them on the side and mix them as desired or add them directly to the stir fry like this 15-minute vegetable noodle stir fry.
• Garnish- the choices here are endless, but my favourite toppings are chopped nuts like honey-roasted peanuts or, cashews for crunch, spring onions and chopped coriander for freshness, sliced chili peppers, and some lime wedges.

⭐️ Top Tip-Add vegetables that need more time to cook first, such as broccoli florets, mushrooms, snow peas, green beans, water chestnuts, sugar snap peas, and baby corn. Add softer vegetables—such as bok choy, courgette, bell peppers, and bean sprouts—toward the end of the cooking process.

See recipe card for quantities.

📖 Substitutions & Variations

Stir fry is an incredibly versatile recipe, allowing you to create unique combinations of flavours and textures and it's great for using up leftovers!

• vegetables - add in some baby corns, cauliflower, or bell peppers. Shredded cabbage is also a really great cheap way to add more veggies and stretch this recipe further.
• protein - this recipe uses lean turkey mince, but you can easily use ground chicken or pork, or even halloumi.
• grains - because of it's sauciness, stir fry is the perfect vehicle for plain grains. Serve it with rice, couscous or noodles.

Seasoning a recipe

I never specify the amount of salt in a recipe because it's completely subjective to your personal taste and possible health requirements, but here are some general guidelines.

1. Start with a small amount of seasoning and taste as you go. It's always easier to add more seasoning than it is to try to fix a dish that is overly seasoned.*If you are accidentally heavy-handed with the salt, try adding some lemon juice to balance it out. In this case of this turkey stir fry use lime to balance out the saltiness.
2. Balance the flavours. Add in some more lime juice to brighten the sauce or more chili for some extra heat.
3. Be mindful of the proportions of the ingredients. If a dish has a lot of strong-flavoured ingredients, you may need to use less seasoning. *This turkey mince recipe has a lot of very bold flavoured ingredients and will require much less seasoning than many other recipes.

👩🏻‍🍳 How to make stir fry in 4 easy steps

Step 1 Prepare the vegetables

• Start by thinly slicing the onion and trimming the broccoli or tenderstem. When making stir fry, it’s important to cook the ingredients quickly over high heat. This ensures that the ingredients stay crisp and retain their flavour.
• Trim the broccoli (and any other veggies) to bite-sized pieces, so that everything cooks quickly and retains it's texture.

2- Make the sauce

• Start by measuring the stir-fry sauce ingredients into a small bowl and whisk them well to combine. *You can use light or dark soy sauce.
• Taste the sauce and adjust the flavours to suit your taste. Add more chilli sauce or lime juice to balance out any saltiness, or add in some more soy sauce, garlic or ginger for a bolder flavour.

*Adding ginger and garlic to the sauce rather than directly to the pan ensures that it won't burn and ruin the dish.

The perfect stir-fry sauce should be a thick coating consistency like runny honey. It should be a balance of spicy, salty, sweet, and sour.

3- Start with protein (turkey)

• Preheat your pan or wok over medium-high heat and add some vegetable oil. Be sure to have all of your ingredients ready to toss in the pan before you start cooking.
• Add the turkey to the hot pan and use a spatula or spoon to break up the meat to ensure it cooks evenly.

Top tip- preheat your pan or wok before you start the cooking process. Once the pan is hot add in the oil and let it coat the bottom of the pan before adding the turkey.

4- Cook the vegetables and add the sauce

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• Once the turkey has cooked, this should only take about 8-10 minutes, add in the vegetables and continue to stir fry for a further 3-4 minutes.
• Pour in the stir-fry sauce and mix well until the turkey and vegetables are coated in the sauce. *Test the broccoli for tenderness. Continue to cook for a further 2-3 minutes if required, until the broccoli is tender but still has some texture.

Top tip: If the vegetables start sticking to the bottom of the pan or the sauce becomes too thick, add in some water a tablespoon at a time until you have the perfect saucy consistency.

🍯 Storage

• Fridge- in an air-tight container for up to 3 days in the fridge.
• Freezer- for up to 1 month in the freezer in an air-tight container. *Be sure to let the stir fry thaw in the fridge before reheating. Trying to reheat from frozen will result in mushy vegetables.
• Reheat from the fridge- in the microwave in 30-second bursts until it's hot all the way through.

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