School Lunch for Dinner

The other reason Halloween was great for us was because I made these awesome Sloppy Joes. I actually really liked school lunches when I was a kid, probably because we always ate Polish food so I really appreciated eating the American food at lunch. So when I saw this recipe for Grown Up Sloppy Joes with Ground Turkey and Avocado, I got inspired and had to try it. Now I can't always find ingredients here so I make do and use what I have and change things up a bit. Seriously, these came out so good, we loved them!

Here's what I put in them:

1/2 kg Lean Ground Turkey
1 cup assorted diced veggies (carrots, corn, red and green pepper)
1 cup finely chopped onion
2 large cloves of garlic
2 TBS sunflower oil
8-oz can (about 250g) of tomato puree
1/2 cup ketchup
2 TBS cider vinegar
2 TBS brown sugar, packed
(approx.) 1/2 tsp chilli powder
(approx.) 1/2 tsp red pepper flakes
(approx.) 1 tsp ground ginger
(approx.) 1 tsp Hot Madras Curry powder (which has coriander, cumin, turmeric, fenugreek, and garlic)
1 avocado
6 whole wheat buns
salt and pepper

Simmering away

We got these nice rolls/buns from the bakery, maybe a tiny bit too bready but then we just added more Joe to it and then topped it off with slices of avocado.

 T agrees! His only other sloppy Joe before was the vegan one at Govinda's in Philly (which is so soooo good!)