Curried Ground Turkey with Potatoes

Ground turkey has to be one of my favorite meats to work with. It’s lean, takes to spices well, and is relatively inexpensive. We were brainstorming ideas for something that would use ground turkey, potatoes, and onions the other day and were inspired by a classical Indian dish called “Aloo Keema”, made with minced meat (most often chicken, beef, or lamb), potatoes, and Indian spices like garam masala and turmeric. Our ground turkey version was delightful, warmly spicy and satisfying. Made for great leftovers

too. Feel free to play around with the spices. whether I didn’t have garam masala in my pantry I would have used some curry powder and perhaps a little cardamom. Not that that’s a substitution, it’s just that the notion is not to complicate things too much, but to work with what you have, and note that “curry” is broadly defined.

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