This turkey black bean quinoa bake? It’s good, great in fact. A «winnah«, according to my household. Obviously they really did not reach consume much of it when I was recipe screening it last week, considered that I ate half of it myself. Just didn’t want to part with it.
Easy tacky quinoa bake with black beans, corn, garlic, shredded cooked turkey, and also lots of cheddar cheese!
With world power comes excellent responsibility. At the very least that’s what I inform myself concerning turkey leftovers.
Whoever chefs the turkey obtains to maintain the leftovers? Whoever has the additional turkey meat reaches decide what to do with it (at least that’s exactly how it works around below). High expectations, people. That’s where the obligation component of the power is available in. Whatever you finish with the leftovers, it better be good.
It’s kind of an inside-out variation of our Cheesy Quinoa Black Bean Stuffed Peppers, with leftover turkey, and not packed. So great!
Whatever you do, enjoy those leftovers if you have them. Right here are some other excellent dishes for remaining turkey if you need a lot more ideas.
To conserve time, prep the components and also begin on the onions and peppers while the quinoa is cooking.
Components
- 1 cup raw quinoa
- 2 mugs water
- Salt
- 3 mugs shredded, sliced cooked turkey
- 2 Tbsp olive oil
- 2 cups onion, sliced
- 2 bell peppers, seeded and also chopped
- 4 cloves garlic, minced
- 1 mug icy corn, thawed
- 1 tsp ground cumin
- 1 teaspoon chili powder (chipotle chili powder if offered), much less or more to taste
- 1 15-ounce can black beans, drained pipes
- 1/2 mug chopped cilantro
- 3 mugs grated cheddar cheese, divided 2 mugs as well as 1 mug
Technique
1 Cook the quinoa according to package instructions. Typically package directions ask you to put 1 mug of quinoa with 2 cups of water and a pinch of salt right into a pot, bringing it to a boil, decrease to an extremely low simmer, cover and also cook for 15 mins. After that eliminate from warmth as well as fluff with a fork.
2 Heat olive oil in a huge skillet on medium high warm. Add the onions and also the bell peppers as well as cook up until softened as well as browned at the sides, regarding 10
mins . Add the garlic, cumin, chili powder, and corn, as well as cook a min extra. Eliminate from warmth.
3 Location the prepared quinoa, black beans, onion combination, cilantro, 2 cups of grated cheddar cheese, and prepared turkey in a huge dish. Toss to integrate.
4 Location in a casserole dish. Spray the leading with remaining 1 mug of cheddar cheese, and cook at 350 ° F uncovered for 15 mins, till the cheese is melted and also bubbly.