Cheesy Spinach-Stuffed Turkey Breasts
with Couscous, Green Beans & Shallot Gravy
- Wheat
- Milk
This impressive main features turkey cutlets stuffed with an Italian-inspired filling of cream cheese, spinach, and sun-dried tomatoes. While those bake, you’ll sauté green beans in garlicky herb butter and make a lemony pan sauce to pair with the turkey. Serve it over a bed of buttery couscous for a luxurious-feeling dinner in under an hour!
Ingredients
1 tablespoon
Flour
(Contains: Wheat)
2 tablespoon
Garlic Herb Butter
(Contains: Milk)
2.5 ounce
Spinach
10 ounce
Turkey Breast Cutlet
¾ cup
Israeli Couscous
(Contains: Wheat)
½ cup
Italian Cheese Blend
(Contains: Milk)
1 ounce
Sun-Dried Tomato Paste
3 unit
Chicken Stock Concentrate
2 tablespoon
Cream Cheese
(Contains: Milk)
1 unit
Shallot
1 unit
Lemon
6 ounce
Green Beans
Not included in your delivery
Salt
Pepper
Cooking Oil
Olive Oil
Butter
(Contains: Milk)
Nutrition Values
Utensils
Cooking Steps
• Adjust rack to middle position and preheat oven to 425 degrees. Wash and dry produce. • Trim green beans if necessary. Halve, peel, and mince shallot. Quarter lemon.
• In a small pot, melt 1 TBSP plain butter (2 TBSP for 4 servings) over medium-high heat. Add couscous and cook, stirring, until lightly toasted, 2-3 minutes. • Stir in 1 cup water, one stock concentrate, and a big pinch of salt (2 cups water and two stock concentrates for 4). Bring to a boil, then cover and reduce heat to low. Cook until couscous is tender, 6-8 minutes. • Keep covered off heat until ready to serve.
• Heat a drizzle of oil in a large pan over medium-high heat. Add spinach; cook, stirring, until wilted, 3-4 minutes. • Transfer spinach to a medium bowl. (Reserve pan for Step 5.) Stir in cream cheese, Italian cheese blend, and sun-dried tomato paste. Season with salt and pepper.
• Pat turkey dry with paper towels. On a cutting board, working one cutlet at a time, carefully insert the tip of a sharp knife into the thickest part of each cutlet on a long side. Cut an opening about 3 inches wide, then cut three-quarters of the way into each cutlet to create a pocket (be sure you don’t cut all the way through!). • Evenly fill turkey cutlets with spinach filling. Season all over with salt and pepper. • Heat a drizzle of olive oil in a second large, preferably ovenproof, pan over medium-high heat. Add turkey and cook until browned, 2-3 minutes per side. (If your pan isn’t ovenproof, transfer to a baking sheet now.) • Transfer to oven and roast on middle rack until turkey is cooked through, 5-10 minutes.
• While turkey cooks, heat a drizzle of oil in pan used for spinach over medium heat. Add green beans; cook, stirring occasionally, until lightly charred and tender, 3-4 minutes. • Add garlic herb butter and cook, stirring occasionally, until butter has melted, 1-2 minutes more. Season with salt and pepper. Turn off heat; transfer to a plate. Wipe out pan.
• In pan used for green beans, melt 2 TBSP plain butter (4 TBSP for 4 servings) over medium heat. Add shallot and cook, stirring occasionally, until softened, 2-4 minutes. • Add flour and cook, stirring, until incorporated, 30 seconds. Stir in 1 cup water (2 cups for 4), remaining stock concentrates, and juice from half the lemon. Cook, stirring occasionally, until mixture has thickened, 2-3 minutes. Season with salt and pepper. • Divide couscous, green beans, and stuffed turkey between plates. Spoon pan sauce over turkey. Serve with remaining lemon wedges on the side.
*Poultry is fully cooked when internal temperature reaches 165°.
Customer reviews
Review summary
Updated on Dec 2025- Flavor: Many loved the delicious taste, with some calling it restaurant-quality and one of their best HelloFresh meals ever 🎉.
- Ease of prep: Stuffing the turkey was challenging for most; cutlets were often too thin to create pockets as instructed.
- Suggestions: Consider pounding thin cutlets and rolling the filling instead of stuffing. Secure with toothpicks to prevent leaking.
- Portions: Some found the turkey pieces smaller than expected, making the stuffing process difficult.
- Sauce: The shallot gravy was praised as delicious, though a few found it too thin or flour-heavy.
Reviews from our home cooks
The quality of the green beans was lacking. One turkey breast was the perfect thickness for fileting. The second one was very thin and had a strip of cartilage running through it. The directions were lacking for the preparation of the couscous. Having never eaten nor prepared couscous in the past I had to draw on other cooking experience. Had I been an inexperienced cook I am afraid the results would have not been as enjoyable.
This meal was delicious but took longer to prepare than the 40 to 50 minutes as stated on the recipe card, but still worth the effort. The only drawback was that the turkey cutlets were too thin to cut a pocket into them. I just put the filling on top and rolled them up.
Outstanding flavor. Will say the turkey filets were so thin I could not create the pocket suggested. I put the spinach filling on one side folded them over.
Great taste - a new meal to add to our rotation. The turkey breasts were a bit small for stuffing.
This was very good. The spinach filling was fantastic. Couscous was perfect.
Delicious! The only thing that was a pain was trying to fit the stuffing in the cutlet but it was a definite winner
Easily one of the top 5 recipes we've ever tried from HelloFresh!
Husband said it was as delicious as any restaurant. Was a healthy choice.
Absolutely fantastic and flavorful! Probably the best hello fresh meal I've ever had.
The turkey cutlets/breasts were WAY too thin to make a "pocket" in them. I ended up trying to just create a "roll up" with the filling inside, but they didn't stay rolled up very well. Still, it was a delicious dish, just didn't have the right size of the main ingredient (turkey meat!) to make them "stuffed."
