Double Sauced Turkey Street Cart Bowls
with Yellow Rice
- Milk
- Eggs
- Tree Nuts
- Wheat
Want your favorite street cart foods without having to track down your fave truck? Our chefs dreamed up just the thing: these turkey street cart-style rice bowls. Each bowl is packed with layers of flavor: buttery turmeric rice with crunchy almonds and scallions, shawarma spiced ground turkey, fresh diced tomato, and not one but TWO sauces. We’re talking classic white sauce and hot sauce. All of that’s served with warmed pita bread. Now all that’s left to do is perfect your dipping technique for the optimal saucy and flavor-packed bite.
Ingredients
1 teaspoon
Turmeric
½ cup
Jasmine Rice
2 unit
Scallions
1 unit
Lemon
1 unit
Roma Tomato
4 tablespoon
Sour Cream
(Contains: Milk)
2 tablespoon
Mayonnaise
(Contains: Eggs)
1 teaspoon
Garlic Powder
10 ounce
Ground Turkey
1 tablespoon
Shawarma Spice Blend
3 unit
Chicken Stock Concentrate
½ ounce
Almonds
(Contains: Tree Nuts)
2 unit
Whole Wheat Pitas
(Contains: Wheat)
2 teaspoon
Hot Sauce
Not included in your delivery
1 teaspoon
Cooking Oil
3 tablespoon
Butter
(Contains: Milk)
Salt
Pepper
Nutrition Values
Utensils
Cooking Steps
• Melt 1 TBSP butter in a small pot over medium heat. Add ¼ tsp turmeric (½ tsp for 4 servings); stir to combine. • Stir in rice, ¾ cup water (1½ cups for 4), and a big pinch of salt and pepper. Bring to a boil, then cover and reduce to a low simmer. Cook until rice is tender, 15-18 minutes. • Keep covered off heat until ready to use in step 5.
• Meanwhile, bring 2 TBSP butter (4 TBSP for 4 servings) to room temperature. Wash and dry produce. • Quarter lemon. Trim and thinly slice scallions, separating whites from greens. Dice tomato.
• In a small bowl, combine sour cream, mayonnaise, garlic powder, and a squeeze of lemon juice. Add water 1 tsp at a time until sauce reaches a drizzling consistency. Season with salt and pepper.
• Heat a drizzle of oil in a large pan over medium-high heat. Add scallion whites and cook until fragrant, 30-60 seconds. • Add turkey*, Shawarma Spice, ½ tsp salt (1 tsp for 4 servings), and pepper. Cook, breaking up meat into pieces, until browned and cooked through, 4-6 minutes. • Stir in stock concentrates and ¼ cup water. Reduce heat to medium low and simmer until slightly thickened, 1-2 minutes.
• Fluff rice with a fork; stir in almonds and half the scallion greens. Season with salt and pepper to taste. • Toast pitas. Spread with softened butter; cut each pita into four pieces.
• Divide rice between bowls. Top with turkey and tomato in separate sections; sprinkle tomato with a pinch of salt. Drizzle turkey with hot sauce to taste. Drizzle white sauce over bowls; garnish with remaining scallion greens. Serve with pitas and remaining lemon wedges on the side. TIP: We like to scoop up some of the rice, turkey, tomato, and sauces with the pita and eat it all in one bite!
Customer reviews
Review summary
Updated on Dec 2025- Flavor: Many loved the complex, flavorful spices; some found it mild and added extra seasoning for deeper taste 🌶️.
- Ease of prep: Customers praised how quick and simple this dish was to make, with clear instructions and minimal prep work.
- Suggestions: Consider adding more vegetables like cucumber or bell pepper; some preferred naan or white pita over whole wheat.
- Portions: Several noted the rice portion was small; others found it very filling with plenty for leftovers.
- Sauce: The white garlic sauce was a hit, though a few found it too garlicky; hot sauce added nice customizable heat.
Reviews from our home cooks
The "Double Sauced Turkey Street Cart Bowls" are extremely easy to make. They're so flavorful and filling. You will not regret getting this meal! 10/10 recommend!
This was AMAZING and so different. Loved the almonds in the rice, the white sauce, the extra hot sauce for kick, and pita to scoop everything into! Could really picture this coming out of a truck in NYC
Wow! This was really good! The blend of ingredients and spices was superb. We had never had a cart bowl before and weren't sure what to expect. Blew us away!
The tumeric rice really added a unique flavor and the garlic sauce was great. I just used much more than a drizzle, so I thinned it out a bit. Next time, I'd make it with ground beef.
Very very tasty! Easy to put together and I was able to substitute the sour cream with my Lactaid sour cream to be able to enjoy the "drizzle" topping, which was spectacular! Rice was great and the seasonings out of this world! My kitchen smelled sooo good! I would order this again.
This is delicious. I put the bowl mixture inside the toasted pita bread and drizzle the sauce at the bottom of the pita bread and on top. Top 10 favorite.
Real good loved this one. I had low hopes because im in NYC and we for mad halal places so I am pleasantly surprised at how good it was. I added some sliced red onion and shredded lettuce which made it feel more authentic of halal street food.
Rice came out mushy, and although it's /colored/ yellow that's very misleading because it doesn't taste of anything. I also found the ground turkey to be super spongy. Finally, I would have preferred a more traditional tsaziki sauce , the mayo was really weird.
This is GREAT! Maybe my favorite meal so far. Super unique and full of flavor! Needed more rice but great meal and so easy!
This was a good dish. A little messy since you had to scoop the stuff onto the pita pieces. Overall, it was a good dish. Filling, lots of rice. As a side note- Turmeric stains your countertop!
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