A savory and hearty dinner served in a bowl – turkey and sweet potato burrito bowls. It’s a mouth-watering meal with a bit of kick thanks to chipotle chili powder, cilantro, cumin and lime. Top it all off with some cool sour cream. Sounds pretty great!
Any Chipotle restaurant fans out there? Sadly, I don’t have one near me these days, but I try to hit one up as often as I can when I travel to other cities. Which happens to be a lot lately. Luckily, it’s easy to skip Chipotle and make your burrito bowl right at home.
You can have your burrito bowl and eat it too! That’s because this dish is brimming with an abundance of healthy ingredients including black beans, sweet potato, and ground turkey. And if you really want to go that extra step and make these even healthier, you can use quinoa in place of the rice.
Turkey and Sweet Potato Burrito Bowls
Ingredients:
1 cup salsa
2 cups cooked white rice
1 Tbsp lime juice
1⁄4 cup chopped cilantro
1⁄2 Tbsp chipotle chili powder, divided
1⁄2 Tbsp cumin
1 Tbsp garlic powder
2 sweet potatoes, cut into 1inch cubes
1 Tbsp oil
1 lb ground turkey
1⁄2 onion, finely chopped
1 cup black beans, rinsed and drained
Directions:
Heat oven to 400 degrees. Line rimmed baking sheet with foil.
In a bowl, combine sweet potatoes, oil, 1⁄4 Tbsp chili powder and 1⁄4 Tbsp cumin. Toss to combine. Spread on baking sheet and roast for 1520 minutes or until tender.
In a skillet, brown turkey. Add onion, garlic powder and remaining chili powder and cumin. Cook for 5 minutes or until onion is softened. Stir in black beans and sweet potatoes.
In a large bowl, combine rice with lime juice and cilantro. Stir well. Add rice to serving dish. Top with turkey mixture. Garnish with cilantro if desired.
If you like this recipe, be sure to check out these recipes from my travels for chocolate cupcakes with fresh strawberry frosting and Charleston inspired grits fritters.

Turkey and Sweet Potato Burrito Bowls
Ingredients
- 1 cup salsa
- 2 cups cooked white rice
- 1 Tbsp lime juice
- 1 ⁄4 cup chopped cilantro
- 1 ⁄2 Tbsp chipotle chili powder divided
- 1 ⁄2 Tbsp cumin
- 1 Tbsp garlic powder
- 2 sweet potatoes cut into 1inch cubes
- 1 Tbsp oil
- 1 lb ground turkey
- 1 ⁄2 onion finely chopped
- 1 cup black beans rinsed and drained
Instructions
- Heat oven to 400 degrees. Line rimmed baking sheet with foil.
- In a bowl, combine sweet potatoes, oil, 1⁄4 Tbsp chili powder and 1⁄4 Tbsp cumin. Toss to combine. Spread on baking sheet and roast for 1520 minutes or until tender.
- In a skillet, brown turkey. Add onion, garlic powder and remaining chili powder and cumin. Cook for 5 minutes or until onion is softened. Stir in black beans and sweet potatoes.
- In a large bowl, combine rice with lime juice and cilantro. Stir well. Add rice to serving dish. Top with turkey mixture. Garnish with cilantro if desired.
This looks and sounds amazing. I love turkey so I am pretty sure I’d love this. I love using left over turkey for fun dishes like this!
Oh wow these look so good! I am just getting to like sweet potatoes, so this is a recipe I need to try.
WHat a fun idea to make the bowls at home. This would be fun to serve for guests too.
This dinner looks hearty and delicious. I would also pack this up and take it with me to work for lunch.
This recipe looks absolutely delicious! I love sweet potatoes so I bet everything comes out so yummy in this bowl!
Thanks for sharing the recipe. I might take on your suggestion to replace rice with quinoa. I’ll be making this for my family too.
That looks really good and filling! Would love to try!
My family loves burrito bowls, but we haven’t tried a combo like this before!
Wow, I never would have thought of this combination!