Turkey Tacos

These paleo babies are called Turnt Turkey Tacos and are simply delicious.
Good luck with portion control on this one 

Right up front I need to give boku credit to my friend and fellow athlete Steph Lauer for turning me on to this recipe. She was inspired by content on the Barbell Shrugged podcast and passed it along to us at the gym, now I'm passing it along to you, it's a wonderful phone tree of delicious nutrition.

This dish can be for anything: tacos, scooped onto sweet potato chips or fresh zucchini slices, over a bed of spinach, spread over scrambled eggs, or just to scarf a few spoonfuls when you wake up starving at 2am (no judging).

I know you will love this easy and delicious dish as much as we do! Enjoy! 

Ingredients:
3lbs lean ground sustainably raised turkey (at least 90% lean is good, but you do you)
​2 Tbsp olive oil or avocado oil, divided
2 packets taco seasoning (McCormick now makes gluten free taco seasoning, who would have thought?)
1 7.5 oz bottle of Taco Bell Taco Sauce (get as spicy as you want)
1 16 oz jar of Pace Picante chunky salsa (again as spicy as you want)
**Do note that the sauce will simmer a while and while that's great for bringing flavors together, it can also dampen down the spice factor. Keep that in mind as you're selecting the heat factor in your sauce and salsa; you may want to go one level hotter to compensate.

Directions:
1. Grab a large frying pan, put 1tbsp olive oil in it, and get it heating

2. Place roughly 1/2 your ground turkey in the pan, and season it with 1 packet of taco seasoning, mix it in thoroughly, then cover and let cook. **Avoid heating the turkey too fast on too high of a temp. With the low fat content it can get dry quickly.

[So you know for what you're looking, the gluten free taco seasoning I found looks like this. I am honest to God not certain if there ever was gluten in taco seasoning or if they just slapped a label on it to get an extra 20 cents out of me for the specialized product. Those taco seasoning folks, they're smart.]

3. Now let's turn to the delicious sauce. In a large saucepan or pot (the meat will be added to this, so be sure to give yourself room), combine the salsa and taco sauce and bring to a bubbly simmer

4. When the first batch of turkey is mostly cooked through, add it, oil and all, to the sauce and continue to let simmer
5. Add the other tbsp of oil to the frying pan and repeat the same process with the second batch of turkey, adding the other taco seasoning packet and letting cook
6. Add this batch of turkey to the sauce, mixing thoroughly 
7. Let it simmer a few more minutes and you're all set. Eat up!

What did you scoop this delicious turkey onto? What did you scoop it with? Leave a comment so we can all see the many great ways to enjoy this yummy dish