Southwestern turkey and grilled vegetable salad
Southwestern flavors liven up this turkey and grilled vegetable salad-for-dinner meal. Serve it up on a big platter so everyone can select their favorite ingredients.
- Prep Time: 30 minutes
- Cook Time: 45 minutes
- Total Time: 1 hours 15 minutes
- Yield: 6 servings 1x
Ingredients
Scale
- 3/4 t chili powder
- 1/2 T granulated garlic or garlic powder
- 1/2 T granulated onion or onion powder
- 1/2 T spanish smoked paprika
- 1/2 T kosher salt
- 2 T brown sugar
- 4 turkey thighs
- 1/3 cup olive oil plus more for vegetables and turkey
- 2.5 pounds sweet potatoes, peeled and diced into 1/2” chunks
- 1.5 T Spanish sherry vinegar
- 1/2 T balsamic vinegar
- 1 chipotle chile and 1 t adobo sauce
- 1 garlic clove, minced
- 2 ounces crumbled blue cheese (optional)
- Salt
- Pepper
- 3 ears corn, husked
- 1 red pepper, seeded and trimmed flat
- 1 red onion, cut into 6 wedges
- 3–4 small zucchini, sliced lengthwise into thirds
- 1 can black beans, rinsed and drained
- 2 heads red leaf lettuce, torn into bite size pieces
Instructions
- Heat oven to 350 degrees. To make spice mix combine first 6 ingredients in a small bowl. Set aside.
- Rub the turkey thighs with olive oil and season with 1 T of the spice mix. Roast for 45 minutes. Cool and chop into 1/2″ chunks. Set aside.
- Toss sweet potatoes in olive oil and sprinkle with 2 T spice mix. Roast potatoes for 30 minutes, turning after 15 minutes.
- For dressing, put vinegars, chipotle chili, adobo sauce and garlic in a small bowl. Whisk in 1/3 cup olive oil. Stir in blue cheese and season with salt and pepper to taste.
- Heat grill to medium high. Rub corn, pepper and zucchini with olive oil and sprinkle with remaining spice mixture. Grill vegetables until they have nice grill marks and vegetables are tender. When cool enough to handle, chop pepper and zucchini into 1/2″ cubes and slice the corn from the cob.
- Spread the lettuce out on a large serving platter. Arrange each of the vegetables, the diced turkey and the beans in strips across the serving platter. Drizzle dressing over the top of the lettuce.