Asian Turkey And Green Beans Saute With Cashews
A savory turkey green beans saute meal is always welcome. When time is nowhere to be found for even important things like food – then this recipe could be you, if you have green beans and protein, like turkey, in your fridge.
The recipe has been designed to use with what’s at hand and what you love to eat and mix together. Veggies, like green beans, and protein options, like turkey, chicken or beef, will be great candidates for a quick meal.
This meal will be your mimicking the Chinese takeout version that you can make at home. It is an exciting thing to prep! I also like to add some cashew nuts that are a powerhouse when it comes to iron, vitamin K (for normal clotting), and Folate to keep our bones strong.
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You Can Use Rice or Any Other Favorite Base like Noodles?
We love a ground turkey skillet for dinner or during weekends in our family. Adding an Asian sauce to the meal is a huge plus, as we are all fans of unique and culturally-matured sauces.
I try to vary the base for this green bean stir-fry type of meal. Opting for brown rice will add more fiber, but white rice is ok as well. If you love noodles, then go ahead and cook up your favorite choice: brown rice noodles, gluten free noodles or even use the Ramen noodles when you do not have anything else.
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Your choice of base won’t change the delicious taste that Chinese green beans will bring to the recipe. Mixed up with sauteed ground turkey and onions and a powerful mix of Asian flavors, your meal can easily become your favorite.
Hoisin Sauce Adds That Asian Flavor to this Ground Turkey Skillet
A great Chinese food does include a variety of sauces, oils, cooking wine, pastes and vinegars. I use different sauces in my cooking. Hoisin sauces is always in my pantry along with chili or hot pepper oil.
Hoisin sauce has sweet and sour taste and can be successfully used for any of your Asian-style dishes. The original sauce usually includes soybeans, fennel, red chili peppers, and garlic. But some regions in China do have their unique flavors of hoisin sauce.
Ingredients You Need for this Asian Turkey Saute
I love my Thai, Chinese, Japanese recipes. Frequently, it is quite an art to make them at home, as they do require very specific ingredients.
This Asian turkey green beans saute recipe is so easy! Hoisin sauce is one of a few ingredients that you may need to go get at the store or on Amazon and keep it for occasions like this one. A quick and delicious meal that satisfies the entire family doesn’t need to be a rocket science.
Here are the ingredients I always have on hand in my pantry and the fridge.
Sesame Oil is one of my favorites to add not only to the Asian recipes, but to my salads as well. I just love that unique taste of roasted sesames! The aroma is so delicious and enticing to eat the whole meal! You can choose different brands that work just fine HERE.
Rice Vinegar is a milder version of a strong distilled vinegar. I love using it in my salad dressings, sauces and pickling my vegetables. I get mine in the stores, but when in a hurry, I get it at Amazon HERE.
Sauces for a Flavorful Asian Dish
Chili Sauce with Garlic is one of my favorites. There are different brands that make it, so you need to decide which one you love. Some of the companies disappeared from the market in the past years. But I found some good substitutes like this sauce on Amazon HERE. I use just a bit of it in my many Asian recipes. The flavor is so robust and aromatic that it’s a truly an experience your taste buds need to take.
Hoisin Sauce is an must-have for any Asian sauce. It has a thicker sour and sweet taste and blends really well with other ingredients. You can buy it HERE.
Soy Sauce with reduced sodium is a variety I go with. But using a full salt load is ok as well. Any store carries small bottles of soy sauce! When shopping on Amazon, shop HERE for it.
Asian Turkey And Green Beans Saute With Cashews
Asian Turkey Green Beans with Cashews is a an easy and quickly cooked meal boasting with flavor and nutrition density.
- pressure cooker or Instant Pot
- 2 cups ground turkey (substitutes possible: chicken, beef, vegetarian turkey) (using Organic is the best)
- 12 oz fresh green beans (substitute: use frozen green beans) (trimmed)
- 1 cup onions (sliced)
- 1 tsp fresh ginger (substitute: use powdered ginger) (grated)
- 10 oz brown rice (substitute: use frozen rice from store if you don't have any in your pantry)
- 1 cup cashew nuts
Sauteing Sauce
- 1 Tbsp sesame oil
- 1 Tbsp rice vinegar
- 1 Tbsp soy sauce
- 3 Tbsp chili sauce with garlic
- 3 Tbsp hoisin sauce
Microwave fresh green beans on high for 4 minutes.
Prepare rice in a Pressure Cooker. I cook it at Low Pressure for 4 minutes, using 1.5 cups of water for 10 oz of rice. Quick pressure release at the end of cooking.
Rice comes out in its sticky version, which our family prefers.
If you don't have cooked turkey/chicken/beef, saute onions first for 2-3 minutes. I add cashew nuts to onions to add their unique flavor to the dish.
Add meat. Cook until meat is ready. It really cooks fast, 6-7 minutes.
Combine all ingredients for the Sauteing Sauce in a cup. Mix them well.
Pour the sauce mixture over the meat, mix well.
Add green beans, combining them with meat and sauce.
Serve the sauteed meat and green beans over rice.
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Looks interesting
Love the cashews.
I almost always use hoisin, soy sauce, brown rice and sesame oil in my Asian cooking and always have them around, but haven’t tried the chili sauce with garlic so will have to pick that up. I can see how that could add a pop to the flavor. I will try this recipe, sounds very good to me.
Interesting recipe. I never had green beans with cashews.
Lily,
This is a very delicious and flavorful recipe. Green beans fit in so well, adding fiber and their own vitamins and minerals to the recipe.
I like the recipe because it gives you some kind of flexibility when it comes to your ingredients, like I can choose any meat variety. Plus it has a fusion of Asian sauces, so this one will definitely suit my taste bud.
Ramil,
You said it!
That’s why I go to this recipe again and again, based on what I have in my fridge and pantry.
I love this kind of recipe because it is so versatile. You can literally substitute so many things and it will still be good.
This looks absolutely delicious and I am pinning the recipe next so I can make this for my husband 😉
Melissa,
It is one of my often used recipes. I vary the base, using different grains. And I also use tofu or vegetarian turkey.
sounds absolutely delicious! definitely pinning this recipe to try tomorrow. I have a handful of cashews and was looking for something to put them into good use (apart of simply eating them)
Lyosha,
This is one of the easiest recipes to duplicate!
Enjoy the flavors!
And the cashews will be put to good use!
The health benifits. The oriental flavor and all the diffrent ways to prepare this meal is very appealing to me.
Lots of healthy benefits in this recipe, you’re right.
Plus, it is so easy to make it.
This recipe is so good. I made it last night, all of us loved it. Even my son enjoyed it, and he can be a little iffy when it comes to food.
Wow, Vanessa,
So happy you’ve actually prepped this recipe to appreciate the flavors!
Yes, kids, too, can be unpredictable.
This looks really good. I’ll have to give it a try. It looks like it has some great flavor.
Kathy,
This is one of my best go-to recipes. We love it!
Looks really good and a hearty meal! I’m sure the entire family would love to try this.
Nadali,
This dish is one of my favorites.
I am loving this recipe and it looks so delicious! I love that you used Turkey… such a healthy protein!
I really like Asian cuisine and try to do my best to imitate the original sauces. They are so delish!
This turkey recipe looks really easy! I love that it contains green beans and cashews!
Lori,
This is one of the easiest recipes that delivers one of the best and closest to the authentic flavors ever.
This recipe is so quick and easy to prepare. My kids loved this recipe. I tried this recipe for the first time. It is really so yum. Thanks for sharing the recipe.
That sounds amazing!! Pinning to try for my family soon.
This recipe looks yummy! I can’t wait to prepare this for my boys! Thanks for sharing!
I have picky eaters, and they OK’d this recipe. Happy to see them like their food.
Looks yummy. I love the ingredients. I can try this at home.
You sure can, my friend!
Easy and very affordable, too.
I have to try this recipe out. Sounds and looks so good with these ingriedients!
looks very delicious! i would love to try cooking it at home
Lyosha,
You sure can, GRL! You can make it all with pans and pots, no additional fancy appliances are needed, really.
I will try this at home!! The ingredients are easy to find and the dish looks really good!
Those are huge cashews. We love them here but only those small kinds.
I’m a vegetarian and was wondering if there was a veg alternative to turkey?
Avanti,
Yes, there’s vegetarian turkey. Check the Whole Foods store, as they have amazing options there or on Amazon.
Choose from any vegetarian meats, as they will take on the flavor of the sauce. Excellent!
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Wow, this recipe looks delicious and healthy I would love to make this at home I will save this post! Pinned this post
This looks so delicious and simple! I love ground turkey and have been looking for new recipes to use it in. I really want to try this recipe.
This sounds really delicious! You have me drooling with turkey and chews together in one dish!
Simple and delicious. My kind of combination. Would have to try this out one day.
Jon,
That’s what I love: the simplicity, the taste, and wholesome ingredients.
I love cashews in food, it adds to much flavors. I can’t wait to make this dish, looks delicious.
Chad,
You won’t be disappointed. The recipe is easy to make and very tasteful.
Wow So delicious. I’ll surely try this
Be my guest, Bindu!
Packed full of amazing flavors! This will be a sure hit at my house!
Toni,
It is one of the favorite staples in mine. I also experiment with flavors sometimes.
All the ingredients I love! It looks so delicious, I will love this dish for sure!
One of my favorites, Catalina.
I’m a huge fan of anything with cashews! If there were a vegetarian version, I would totally try it!
Cashews add that unique flavor, don’t they?
I love the combo of colors and flavors in this recipe! The green beans look absolutely delicious!
I love sauteed green beans. This recipe looks like a simple, flavor-packed meal.
I am with you, Amy.
This is a really nutrient-dense food, and is full of flavor, too.
Had this before, it’s a popular dish in China, they love cashews in dishes.
I haven’t tried a turkey all this time! I really hope to try one in the future! It looks really delicious on the photo!
Oh my lord, my family would love this. Bookmarking this recipe and will try to make it this week!
That’s such a yummy looking dish! I’ll make sure to try recreating it for my boyfriend!
I would remove the cashews but dang, this looks yummy! I love the cashew flavor just not the crunch aspect.
Kita,
This recipe is sooo flexible!
Yes, remove the nuts, and go with the flavor!
THis sounds like such a wonderfully delicious meal idea. I would love to try this recipe one day soon.
I haven’t tried making an ethnic dish from scratch before. This looks really good. May have to try it out!
Jacqui,
It is so easy, yet the flavors are very powerful and taste like… in a restaurant!
Just make sure you’ve got in your pantry: Sesame seed oil, hoisin sauce, and chili sauce with garlic (or sans garlic!).
These 3 flavors mixed together will bring to you some of the best of ethnic Chinese food.
This whole recipe looks delicious but I especially love the cashews! Can’t wait to try it!
Wow! This looks delicious! I haven’t had turkey for a while now. I should really try this.
We are not big on Asian flavors in our house but this looks like something that my hubby would like. I might have to surprise him with this dish for dinner this weekend.
What a wonderful looking dish, I love cashews in my chicken dishes. Yummy!
We eat a lot of asian inspired food in our house too! It is so easy to make it gluten free which makes meal time a little be easier on me!
Oh now this sounds so good, I do often like something with a spicy edge and this sounds like it fits that bill.
I love cashew chicken so this turkey green bean sautee with cashews sounds great. I need to add this to the menu rotation.
Oo this looks so scrumptious. I’ll have to try this out–I’m pretty sure everyone in my family would gobble it right up.
I love Asian food but I’ve never had it with turkey. I really like cashews in foods too. Sauces always make them better.
that looks delicious! I love to make my own take out so bookmarking for the weekend.
Looks like something that I am creating. I am looking for something different to eat something that has more flavor than what I had in the past. I think this fits the bill perfectly. I will definitely try it.
This sounds like a delicious meal idea. I am positive that my whole family will LOVE it.