Healthy Hint: Veggified Tacos

Lately I have been switching up how I've been making tacos, a staple around our house since they are quick and easy and my husband is a HUGE fan of Mexican food.  It all started with the discovery of an awesome homemade seasoning recipe, found here, and continued to evolve when I suddenly ran out of frozen ground beef and had to sub in ground turkey, hoping my husband (a die-hard fan of ground beef) wouldn't notice.  To help hide the change, I decided to up the ante and throw in a bunch of extra stuff that he'd for sure notice, hoping that he'd skim right over the meat switcheroo.  Did it work, you ask?

Yes, yes.  It did.

And, not only was he pleasantly surprised that it tasted so good even though it was just lowly, healthy ground turkey, but we both agreed that it tasted even better the way I changed it.  So here it is, my "recipe" - if you can call it that - for veggified tacos.

1 lb. of lean ground turkey
2.3 Tbsp. of the aforementioned seasoning
3/4 cup water
1 green pepper, chopped
1 white onion, chopped
1 can (14.5 oz.) of no salt added diced tomatoes, drained

Brown the ground turkey with the onion and the green pepper in a large skillet, then drain off the excess grease and wipe the skillet with a dry paper towel .  Add in the seasoning and water, stirring until the turkey, onion, and green pepper are all well-coated.  Add in the drained diced tomatoes and simmer over medium heat until the taco meat mixture is the right consistency (it might be a bit liquidy at first so you'll have to cook off some of the excess - plus it'll make it taste that much better to simmer all the ingredients together for a little while).

Serve them in your taco shells/tortillas of choice; we personally like the Chi-Chi's Whole Wheat soft tortillas, but obviously anything else would be fine, too.  Bryson even used the leftover meat mixture to make nachos the other day, and let me tell you ... it smelled heavenly.

I hope you enjoy this as much as we have!  Happy eating!