This Chinese Green Beans with Ground Turkey recipe is my readers’ favorite! This dinner is quick, flavorful, and healthy. I bet it will be a hit at your house!
I’ve mentioned that we live in San Francisco and are surrounded by AMAZING Asian cuisine, so we’re pretty picky about our Chinese food. When I saw a couple ground turkey stir fry recipes floating around, I thought turkey in an Asian-inspired dish seemed peculiar, but then I remembered having something similar that had ground pork instead. Pork. Turkey. What’s the difference, right?
I’m so glad I decided to try these Chinese Green Beans with Ground Turkey because this easy meal was delicious! To make it even better, it takes less than 30 minutes to prepare, making it one of my best recipes for busy days!
My oldest usually turns his nose up at green beans when I make them, but he makes an exception for Chinese green beans. I can’t understand that kid. He won’t eat gravy or spaghetti sauce, but he loves sushi and anything smothered in black bean sauce.
It’s hard to say he’s picky exactly. Maybe he just has discerning taste. He’s certainly growing up in the right city. We didn’t have a lot of Asian food options when I was a kid in Mississippi! Fortunately I’m making up for it as an adult.
This green bean stir fry was born for weeknights. If you can find Chinese long beans in your supermarket, those make the recipe taste even more authentic. If not, regular American green beans are perfect too. Just make sure they are fresh (not canned!) for a great result. If you don’t have fresh available, try frozen instead. However you make yours, I hope you love this Asian ground turkey recipe.
Watch the how-to recipe video!
| Prep Time | 5 minutes |
| Cook Time | 20 minutes |
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- 1 cup medium grain rice uncooked
- 1 tablespoon sesame oil
- 1 small bunch green onions sliced thin
- 2 cloves garlic minced or crushed
- 1 pound ground turkey
- 2 tablespoons chili garlic sauce
- 2 tablespoons hoisin sauce
- 1 teaspoon crushed ginger
- 1 pound washed and trimmed green beans or Chinese long beans if available
- 1 tablespoon soy sauce
- 1 tablespoon seasoned rice vinegar
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- Start rice cooking in lightly salted water.
- When rice is about 15 minutes from done, heat large skillet over high heat. Add sesame oil, and sauté green onions and garlic for about 2 minutes. Stir in ground turkey and sauté 3-5 minutes, until meat is mostly cooked. Crumble meat as much as possible.
- Stir in chili garlic sauce, hoisin sauce, and ginger. Add green beans and soy sauce, and stir to coat. Continue cooking over high heat for 7-9 minutes longer, stirring frequently, until beans are slightly tender.
- Stir in rice vinegar, and cook one minute longer. Serve over cooked rice.
Adapted from recipes from The Lemon Bowl and Cook Snap Savour.
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I’ve been making this a couple times a month for at least a year… delicious recipe!
This was an amazing dinner! My green beans were cut in half but took a little longer to cook. I put a lid on and they came out perfect. I just mixed the sesame oil, ginger, soy sauce, rice vinegar, and sweet chili sauce(in place of chili garlic sauce for my 10 month old) and added the sauce at the end! I would definitely try it with the chili garlic sauce, I love that stuff. Thanks for a great recipe, we loved it so much!
Thanks for this great recipe! My tweaks due to ingredients on hand: I used ground chicken, ginger paste (from the squeeze tube), and about 1.5 pounds of frozen green beans (two packages). So, I added a tad bit more of the hoisin, chili garlic paste, and soy sauce. I also had some dried pepper flakes for extra heat! I’ve made it twice now, and it’s delicious! Next time I”ll probably add some green bell pepper to stretch the recipe. Since I’m trying to be good and avoid too many carbs, I just had a double serving instead of rice :)… Read more »
I made this exactly as written, except I browned and drained the turkey first. Wow, I loved the result, and anticipate making it regularly. No one would ever know this was made with turkey and not pork. I found the flavor deliciously complex and only very mildly spicy; will add some hot peppers next time. While I loved the green beans (using the first harvest of yard-long beans from my garden), I think this would be good with more veggies as well- onion, bell pepper, broccoli, sugar peas… the possibilities are endless. Thanks!
Can’t wait to try this recipe however I suffer from crohns disease and cannot tolerate even the tiniest bit of spicy. Any suggestions on a substitution? Also can chicken breasts or pork chops cut up in small pieces be ok to use instead of ground Turkey? Would love to add mushrooms and carrots to the recipe. What are your thoughts. I’m always looking for new recipes that my crohns can tolerate.
My husband has started following a keto-ish diet and so I’ve been on this culinary adventure trying to find things that he can eat. The hoisin sauce does have sugar in it but since he gets almost no carbs through the day, I figured he could handle the few carbs the sauce would contribute. Same with the about half a yellow onion that I added. I made the dish with the additional sliced yellow onion, double the sauce and double the meat. It was fantastic. I scooped out his portion and the. Added some rice stick noodles instead of the… Read more »
Hi, I subbed 3-5 Tbsp. coconut aminos for both the hoisin and soy sauces because that’s what I had on hand. I didn’t have the chili garlic sauce so I used sweet chili sauce and the sweet element was still there. I used haricot verts and frozen French cut green beans and it worked out great. Fam loved it so much I am making it again 5 days later per request. This time I did buy some fresh ginger and true chili garlic sauce and will keep experimenting. I’m not usually in the mood for Asian food but I love… Read more »
I wasn’t to sure if this at first, but it is really good! Has some great flavors! It would be good as a lettuce wrap too. I also thickened mine a little because I like that consistency. However this is really good and something new! Thank you!
So delicious and affordable to make. Next time I will drain it after the turkey is cooked since I used a higher fat ground turkey. Thank you for a new favorite.
This dish was a winner. I went out of my way to pick up green onion completely forgot to add it anyway. I added black sesame seeds though. Delicious!