Turkey Bolognese | RV Cooking & Healthy RV Recipes #19

What's up guys it's Christine with Irene Iron Fitness and today I'm gonna make turkey bolognese. So if you're stuck in the rain like I am and you want to make something warm and cozy, keep watching. So we're in Washington right now, Newport Washington, which is near Spokane and it's really cold and kind of miserable out. It's 55, 60 degrees, raining all day. I got my jam pants on and I'm gonna whip up some comfort food. So I'm making turkey bolognese. I'm doing this the fast way because traditionally this is like really slow cooked over the stovetop for multiple hours and I don't have time for that or patience. So I'm just gonna do a quick version using onion, garlic, carrots, celery, some spices, and turkey meat. So let's get started by getting our pan hot. It's a 10 inch skillet. We're gonna put in some olive oil. We're gonna get the onions started first. The onions we're gonna let sweat for a few minutes until they get soft and tender. Then we're gonna add the garlic in. I do have the onions in a small chop, almost diced, and everything else I've chopped pretty fine, like the celery. It's not minced but it's a nice dice and the carrots are diced. And I did them on the smaller side because I want them to really like blend in with the turkey. I don't want to have big gobs of carrots sticking out or celery sticking out. I want it to really become one with the turkey. So that's why I cut it small. If you want it chunkier you can do it chunkier. The turkey I have, it's, I don't, I've been trying to figure out what percentage it is of leanness. It's not marked, which kind of irks me a little bit, but it's 11 grams of fat per four ounce serving. And I would say it's most comparable to a 91% turkey. So that's what I'm using today. They sell this at Costco. So I get it a lot and I really just wish I knew what percentage it was, but I'm just guessing at 91. So the onions smell really good. I use a lot of onions and garlic you might have picked up on and it's just something that you can always keep on your pantry basket. Onions can last a really long time depending on how fresh they are when you purchase them. So that's another reason why when you're picking out your produce make sure that it looks good so that it will hang around longer for you to use at your discretion. And it doesn't really take long to cut them up and put them in and it just takes a dish from being kind of blah to being something really special and that's what I like to do. So the onions are started. We'll get the garlic in and then we'll get the other veggies in and it's going to come together pretty quick within like 10 minutes for us to have all of our ingredients hanging out here. Looks like funfetti in there. It is pretty colors. You got your orange, your white, your greens, getting some veg into this spaghetti sauce which is great. And the colors are brightened and it's been on here for a few minutes with that extra veg in. It looks soft. So I'm going to add in the turkey. You just plop it right in. You don't need to add any more oil or anything because this turkey has a little bit of fat in it. It's going to take care of itself. Just like to try to get it all out of this package. I really do like buying my turkey in bulk. It's a great price. You just want to work this in and work the vegetables into the turkey. My turkey, I'm just sitting here breaking it up, just getting the big clumps into small clumps so that it's pretty uniform throughout the pan. And it's been cooking about five minutes, the turkey has. And now I'm going to add some seasoning. I like to wait until the turkey has cooked through so that I can actually see when the pinkness in the turkey goes away. Because once I put seasonings in it can be more difficult to see if the turkey has cooked through or not. So in this goes. And this is salt, pepper, basil, a lot of basil, some red pepper flakes, and that's it. I did put a sprinkle of salt onto the vegetables just to help get those sweating. Other than that there should be enough salt in this recipe to season the entire dish. At the end of any recipe you always want to give it a little taste and see if you need to add more salt because people's salt preference is so different. And if you find that dishes are bland and you're not digging it you probably just need to add a little bit more salt to it. So I got my seasonings in and next I'm going to add in some tomato sauce. And this is just a generic Harris Teeter. And I always get a kick out of seeing my generic brands because it brings back memories to which part of the country I was in. So like this is somewhere north of the Carolinas and south of Delaware and I shopped at a lot of Harris Teeters. It's kind of fun just to see stuff and recall oh I was in Florida when I bought this Publix or you know different brands for different regions. I'm gonna hope to get away with one can on this if you're having this over noodles. You'd want to put two cans in for sure to get it saucy. So if that's what you intend to serve it with go ahead and put two in to get it to your desired sauciness. I don't want it saucy. I just want the meat really to soak up that tomato and make it a cohesive dish. So that's why I add the sauce in. Obviously doing a play on the bolognese you have to have some tomato sauce in there. And this looks like a good amount. And that sauce is gonna soak up into the meat and it's gonna help those seasonings soak up into the meat as well. And we're gonna turn the heat down a little bit and just let it simmer for a few minutes. Give it a taste. See if you like it. Add more salt. Add more sauce. Add more seasoning. Whatever it is that you feel like it's missing. And that's the great thing about cooking your own healthy recipes is you can tweak it to make it how you like it. And remember every Wednesday I'm gonna do a healthy recipe. I'm a personal trainer. I'm a nutrition coach. So I like to do recipes that you can eat and enjoy eating and you know find a lifestyle of diet that you can eat the rest of your life and make it be easy so that it's something that you enjoy adding into your healthy routine. You can find this recipe for what exactly I put in mine on my blog ireneironfitness.com. You can print it out. And if you like this video hit that subscribe. Hit that like button. Meet me next week for another recipe. And then Sundays Aaron and I do RV travel vlogs and RV maintenance things like that. Little gadgets. Aaron likes to do reviews on things. So keep in touch with us. Thanks for watching and we'll see you next time.