Ground Turkey Potato Casserole

This delicious ground turkey potato casserole is easy to make and perfect for weeknight meals. It’s a hearty and indulgent meal that will fill everyone up. Using ground turkey recipes in your meal planning will help keep things fresh and delicious. Most times they are low cost and have healthy options.

This tasty casserole with potatoes, cheese, and ground turkey meatballs will surely become one of your family’s favorite dinner options.

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This recipe is pretty easy to make and the presentation is fun and makes it quick to serve and share. The way we’re setting up this casserole dish might seem a little frilly but it serves a purpose…Cooking the meatballs and then potatoes next to each other in this style means that the potatoes will have a chance to soak up so many great flavors.

What kind of potatoes should I use?

The most common type of potato used in this dish is the Russet potato, but you can also use Yukon Gold or Red potatoes. For this recipe we will pre-cook the potatoes so they will not be raw when you put them in the casserole.

The potatoes get really soft and flavorful thanks to the perfectly seasoned meat cooking right next to them. This also makes it really easy to serve the recipe when it is time to eat. You can just scoop up the meatballs and the potatoes go right along with them!

Is this a gluten free dinner recipe?

This ground turkey potato casserole is not naturally gluten free as written. It uses a small amount of flour to make the roux. That means you have to substitute a gluten free flour or gluten free flour blend of your choice for that 1 tablespoon of flour.

Everything else in the recipe is naturally gluten free. I would say this is an easy recipe to make gluten free as a 1 to 1 baking mix gluten free flour will work fine for making the roux. You could also use corn starch!

What do I need to make this ground turkey meatball casserole?

This recipe uses potatoes, ground turkey, onions, dill, paprika, nutmeg salt, pepper, butter, mozzarella cheese, flour, and some low fat milk! 

Just a few simple ingredients that are hearty and easy to grab and keep on hand. I love that I can usually whip this recipe up with stuff I have on hand or that I have in the freezer. I tend to stock up on ground turkey whenever I find it on sale at the store.

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How to make a ground turkey potato casserole:

Clean the potatoes and place them whole in 3 quarts of water. Bring the water to a boil. Reduce heat to medium low. Cover the pot with a lid and let simmer until fork-tender, about 10-15 minutes. Drain. This will cook them approx. half way. Once cool to touch, remove skins (if desired) and slice. 

While potatoes cook, mix the ground turkey with chopped onion and spices.

Roll meat  mixture into small meatballs.

Arrange meatballs in a 2 quart round or 8 x 8 glass casserole dish that you have sprayed with nonstick spray. 

Add potato slices in between the meatballs to cover the bottom of the dish. 

Melt the butter in a saucepan, add flour and stir constantly to make a roux.  

Pour in hot milk, bring to a boil and whisk until sauce begins to thicken. 

Pour sauce over meatballs.

Add grated cheese. Cook in the oven at 325 degrees for 15-20 minutes

Serve.

Can I have this recipe on Weight Watchers?

Their plan is still relatively the same in that you can eat anything you like you just need to track it and stay within your points ranges for the day / week.

Which WW Program are these points for?

WW has definitely changed from 2020 to now. They went from three to one plan to multiple plans and back to one plan again. So in 2023, we have just plain old “POINTS.”

• Be sure to calculate the points value of the foods and recipes you eat in the app.
• Always add ingredients and serving sizes and don’t rely on the nutrition facts in the recipe.
• Accuracy will come from the information you input on the app.

We recommend that you use the recipe creator on the app or the website to create the recipe based on the ingredients / brands you use and then you’ll know for sure how to track this recipe.

Looking for more delicious ground turkey recipes to make?

If you like using ground turkey in your recipes you will love some of these other options for quick and easy dinners. Be sure to give them all a try and let us know which ones you loved!

For those of you who do Weight Watchers, ground turkey potato casserole as well as things like Ground Turkey Sweet Potato Skillet, Weight Watchers Ground Turkey Goulash, Turkey Pot Pie Recipe, Weight Watcher Turkey Burgers, and Weight Watchers Turkey Burritos are other tasty options that are lower in points thanks to lean ground turkey being the primary protein.

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