Weight Watchers Recipe of the Day: Sweet Potato Turkey Skillet Dinner
This sweet potato turkey dinner in a skillet is a dinner idea that's as healthy as it is delicious. It's the kind of simple tasty one-pot recipe your whole family will love. Every time I make it it's a big hit with mine.
Tasty Turkey Tenderloin & Sweet Potato Skillet
My version is based on a recipe I found in the Betty Crocker's Healthy New Choices (affiliate link) Cookbook
Recipe Notes
I modified this sweet potato turkey dinner in a skillet to make it more fresh & tasty.
I replaced fresh sweet potatoes for the canned that were called for.
Chopped sweet potatoes
And I went lighter on the butter and maple syrup to decrease the fat and calories a bit, to be a little more Weight Watchers friendly. We enjoyed it very much.
Perfect when you are craving the flavors of Thanksgiving with a lot less work!
How Many Calories and WW Points in this Turkey and Sweet Potato Skillet?
According to my calculations each serving has 355 calories and:
10 *SmartPoints (Green plan)
10 *SmartPoints (Blue plan)
6 *SmartPoints (Purple plan)
8 *PointsPlus (Old plan)
Skipping the dried cranberries will reduce it by *2 SmartPoints. Enjoy!
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Sweet Potato Turkey Dinner Skillet
Ingredients
- 1 pound turkey breast tenderloin
- ⅓ cup dried cranberries
- ¼ cup orange juice
- ¼ cup maple syrup
- 2 teaspoons butter
- ¼ teaspoon cinnamon
- 2 - 3 sweet potatoes, peeled and chopped into 1-inch chunks
Instructions
- Spray a 10-inch nonstick skillet with cooking spray and set it over medium heat. Place the turkey tenderloin in the skillet and cook it until brown on one side, about 2-½ minutes. Turn it and brown the other side for about 2-½ minutes.
- While the turkey is cooking, place the cranberries, orange juice, maple syrup, margarine and cinnamon in a small saucepan and bring the mixture to a boil.
- Arrange sweet potatoes around the turkey in the skillet. Pour the orange juice mixture over the turkey and potatoes.
- Cover and turn the heat to low. Cook over low heat for about 15 minutes.
- Uncover and cook about 5 minutes longer, or until sauce is slightly thickened, the sweet potatoes are tender when pierced with a knife and the juice of turkey is no longer pink when the center of thickest piece is cut.
Equipment
Recipe Notes
Source: adapted from Betty Crocker's Healthy New Choices (affiliate link) Cookbook
*Points® calculated by WW. *PointsPlus® and SmartPoints® calculated by Simple Nourished Living; Not endorsed by Weight Watchers International, Inc. All recipe ingredients except optional items included in determining nutritional estimates. SmartPoints® values calculated WITHOUT each plan's ZeroPoint Foods (Green plan, Blue plan, Purple plan) using the WW Recipe Builder.
If you liked this sweet potato turkey dinner, you might also like:
- Slow Cooker Braised Chicken with Sweet Potatoes
- Slow Cooker Pumpkin Black Bean Chili
- Curried Sweet Potatoes with Green Peas
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Jan
We loved this recipe and I’m making it a second time already using a combination of sweet potatoes and red potatoes. It decreases the sweetness a little more. Thank you!