A Sunday classic when the family visits. A delicious piece of turkey with green beans and fried potatoes. The golden-brown fried potatoes give this dish an extra festive touch.
Turkey with green beans and fried potatoes
Ingredients
- 500 grams potatoes
- 300 grams turkey fillet
- 200 grams green beans
- 200 grams diced tomatoes
- 1 clove garlic
- 0,5 white onion
- 0,5 dl white wine
- butter
spices
- pepper
- salt
- oregano
- marjoram
- thyme
Instructions
Some preparations
- Peel the potatoes and cut them into cubes about two centimeters in size.
- Trim the ends off the green beans and cut them into pieces about two centimeters long.
- Peel the garlic and onion. Halve them and then chop both into small pieces.
Cooking the turkey fillet with green beans and fried potatoes:
- Boil or steam the potatoes for about ten minutes.
- Heat some oil in a pot and sauté the garlic and onion.
- After a minute, add the green beans.
- Let this stew for a few minutes, then deglaze with the white wine.
- Let the wine evaporate and reduce. Finally, add the spices and diced tomatoes. Let this simmer on low heat.
- Heat some butter in a pan and fry the potatoes over medium-high heat. Stir them regularly so they brown evenly on all sides.
- Season the turkey fillets with pepper and salt on both sides.
- Heat some butter in a second pan and fry the turkey fillets until golden brown on both sides.
- Finally, serve the green beans in tomato sauce, the fried potatoes, and the turkey fillet nicely on plates and serve warm.
Nutrition
How to make turkey with green beans and fried potatoes?
This delicious Sunday classic is not difficult to prepare at all. And everyone will love it. So let's start with the preparations right away:
Preparations
We start with the green beans. We cut off both ends. Then we cut them into pieces of one to two centimeters. Green beans are sometimes called princess beans. And this is of course our Sunday name for these beans.
We finely chop the white onion and the clove of garlic. To do this, we remove the outer tough skin. Then we halve them and cut them into small pieces.
We peel the potatoes and cut them into small pieces.
Cooking the turkey with green beans and fried potatoes
We start by boiling, or better yet, steaming the diced potatoes. The smaller pieces don't need much time, and after about ten minutes, they are al dente. Since we will fry them later, they don't need to be overly cooked. The final bit of cooking will happen during frying.
While the potatoes are cooking, we can heat some oil in a pot for the beans. We sauté the garlic and onion in it for a minute. Then we add the finely chopped beans. We let them stew for a few minutes. Then we deglaze this with a bit of white wine. Let it reduce and evaporate. Then add the diced tomatoes and spices and mix everything well. Let this simmer gently until the rest is ready.
Heat some butter in a pan and fry the potatoes over medium-high heat. Stir them regularly so that all sides get a nice crispy brown edge.
Now it's time to season the turkey fillet on both sides with pepper and salt. Then heat some butter in a pan and fry the turkey fillet on both sides until it is cooked through and golden brown.
Finally, it's time to plate. Divide the green beans and the fried potatoes over the plates. Place the turkey fillet partially on top and serve.
About green beans
Anyone who thought that green beans are typical local vegetables from Western Europe is mistaken. Like the potato, they are imported from South America, specifically Peru. They were brought to Europe by the first explorers in the 16th century.
On Sundays, we use the elongated pod. On other weekdays, we also use the rougher curved variant. We prefer to eat green beans stewed with the pod. Yellow wax beans are actually overgrown green beans that turn yellow as they grow larger.
Read more about green beans in the following articles:
- Green beans - Wikipedia.
- A guide to different types of green beans (Allrecipes).
- Green beans - origin, nutritients and meals (Every foods).
- Princess beans - vegetable of the year 2019 (We're smart).
More surprising.beans
Beans are very healthy. They also contain a lot of proteins and are therefore good meat substitutes. Think, for example, of soybeans from which tofu is made. You can find more bean inspiration in the following articles:
- Summer pasta salad with green beans and tuna.
- Midweek minestrone meal soup.
- Homemade tofu from soy beans.
- Spaghetti with tofu and shiitake.
If you speak Dutch, you can find the Dutch version of this recipe on gerechtenweb.blog.
