Dinner

Turkey Picadillo with Rice

Name: Turkey Picadillo with Rice
Prep time: 15 min
Total time: 15 min
Yield: 1 serving
Ingredients: 160 g Turkey breast mince, 2% fat; 60 g Onion; 60 g Green pepper; 2 cloves, about 6 g Garlic; 200 g Chopped tomatoes, tinned; 20 g Olives, pitted; 15 g Raisins; A teaspoon Ground cumin; A pinch Ground cinnamon; A splash Red wine vinegar; 140 g Cooked white rice; 4 sprays, about 1 g Olive oil spray

Cuban-style turkey mince cooked with tomato, olives, raisins and cumin, served over rice. Sweet, salty and sharp in the same forkful. 45 g of protein.

Calories: 524kcal
Protein: 45g
Fat: 8g
Carbs: 67g

Per serving, makes 1. 15 minutes of work, then twenty minutes at a simmer. Published 8 September 2026.

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Ingredients

Turkey breast mince, 2% fat160 g
Weighed raw. Thigh mince at 7% fat adds about 20 kcal per 100 g.
Onion60 g
Green pepper60 g
Garlic2 cloves, about 6 g
Chopped tomatoes, tinned200 g
Olives, pitted20 g
Green ones, halved. About six.
Raisins15 g
Ground cuminA teaspoon
Ground cinnamonA pinch
Red wine vinegarA splash
Cooked white rice140 g
Cooked weight. About 50 g of dry rice becomes 130 g cooked.
Olive oil spray4 sprays, about 1 g
Counted at a quarter of a gram per spray, which is what the nozzle on most bottles delivers. Four sprays is 9 kcal.

Method

Soften the onion and pepper in a sprayed pan for six minutes, then add the garlic, cumin and cinnamon and stir for a minute.
Add the mince and cook over a high heat, breaking it up, until it has lost its pink and started to catch.
Add the tomatoes, olives and raisins with a pinch of salt and simmer uncovered for twenty minutes, until thick.
Stir in the vinegar, taste for salt and serve over the rice.

Worth knowing

The raisins are not optional. They are the point of picadillo, and fifteen grams is a scatter that sweetens the tomato without turning it into a pudding.
Everything in the pan is either meat or vegetable, so the rice is the only real carbohydrate. It can be swapped for black beans, which brings the protein up and the calories to roughly the same place.

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