Street Cart–Style Turkey Bowls
Now get 50% more protein per serving in this HelloFresh classic!
- Sesame
- Wheat
- Tree Nuts
- Milk
- Eggs
Want your favorite street cart foods without having to track down your fave truck? Our chefs dreamed up just the thing: these street cart–style turkey rice bowls. Each serving 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. And all of that’s served with warm pita bread. Now all that’s left to do is perfect your dipping technique for the optimal saucy and flavor-packed bite.
Ingredients
1 unit
Tomato
1 teaspoon
Garlic Powder
2 unit
Pitas
(Contains: Sesame, Wheat)
½ ounce
Sliced Almonds
(Contains: Tree Nuts)
1 teaspoon
Turmeric
2 unit
Scallions
3 unit
Chicken Stock Concentrate
3 tablespoon
Sour Cream
(Contains: Milk)
1 tablespoon
Shawarma Spice Blend
2 tablespoon
Mayonnaise
(Contains: Eggs)
1 unit
Lemon
2 teaspoon
Hot Sauce
15 ounce
Ground Turkey
¾ cup
Jasmine Rice
Not included in your delivery
Salt
Pepper
Cooking Oil
Butter
(Contains: Milk)
Nutrition Values
Utensils
Cooking Steps
• Melt 1 TBSP butter in a small pot over medium heat. Stir in ¼ tsp turmeric (½ tsp for 4 servings) until combined. • Stir in rice, 1 ¼ cups water(2 ¼ 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.
• While rice cooks, 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 Blend, ¾ tsp salt (1 ½ tsp for 4 servings), and pepper. (TIP: Not sure how much turkey to use? Reference the guide at the top left of this card for guidance!) Cook, breaking up meat into pieces, until browned and cooked through, 4-6 minutes. • Stir in stock concentrates and ¼ cup water (⅓ cup for 4), scraping up any brown bits from bottom of pan. Reduce heat to medium low and simmer until slightly thickened, 1-2 minutes more.
• Fluff rice with a fork; stir in almonds and half the scallion greens. Season with salt and pepper to taste. • Toast pitas, then spread with softened butter. Cut each pita into four wedges.
• 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: If you like, scoop up some of the rice, turkey, tomato, and sauces with the pita and eat it all in one bite!
Ground Poultry is fully cooked when internal temperature reaches 165°.
Customer reviews
Review summary
Updated on Sep 2026- Flavor: The turmeric rice and shawarma-spiced turkey are a flavorful, satisfying combo — the garlic white sauce ties everything together beautifully 🍲.
- Ease of prep: The recipe comes together quickly and is easy to follow; most found it a reliable weeknight meal.
- Suggestions: Use all the turmeric for the rice and add extra white sauce — many felt the increased protein needed more shawarma spice and sauce to stay balanced. Add more tomatoes or a cucumber for extra freshness, and consider toasting the pita on a low broil for better texture.
- Leftovers: The dish makes generous portions and reheats well, making it a great meal-prep option.
- Portions: Several customers felt the 50% protein increase threw off the meat-to-rice ratio; some preferred the original portion size for better balance.
Reviews from our home cooks
This has been one of my all-time favorites BUT You made a big mistake when you increased the amount of protein. First of all, it's now too much protein just 6 ounces per person would be great. I like the additional rice, but you didn't include additional seasoning you sent the same amount of Shawarma as you did with the old recipe and now it's incredibly bland. You also need more white sauce because of the increased volume so either fix that or go back to the way it was.
The flavor is excellent on this one. Both the rice and the turkey are very flavorful. It's simple to prepare and hearty. Would be great if we could get it with naan instead of pita as an option.
Delicious! Generous portions. Especially liked the rice with turmeric. Ground turkey was really good and filling. Thank you!
Absolutely a banger. Lots of turkey. Lots of Rice. Pita Bread. This is one you can safely get every time it shows up
Generally a great dish and super easy. Surprisingly the almonds were the best part, gave it a nice crunch. What would've taken this over the top is more veg/a fruit (onion, cucumber, pomegranate seeds would be really good)
Favorite meal yet and I've had some that I really loved. This brought me back to ordering from Rafiki's falafel food truck in NYC while on lunch break. Instead of using the Mexican hot sauce, I used my own middle eastern hot sauce from Mamoun's. I don't think it would've tasted as good with the one provided, maybe look into that. I would definitely order this again.
Flavor was ok, was a little dry for our liking definitely needed more tomato and sauce for sure. Potentially butter in the rice as well
Love this recipe, but the recent increase in ground turkey to the recipe is too much. Please consider offering a standard option and increased protein option for this recipe. Thanks!
The Street Cart Turkey Bowls are one of our all-time favorite meals! I order them every time they are offered! The turmeric rice is amazing!! This time, I even ordered extra pitas to go with the meal. But the pitas that came with the meal AND the extra ones were thin, dry, tasteless, and already breaking apart when they arrived! I served them the day after the box arrived, but they were already cracked and nearly unusable. Warmed them up with wet paper towels, but they were still thin, broken, and tasteless. You used to send thick, pillowy-soft pitas with the Street Cart Turkey Bowls. What happened? Please don't skimp on quality to save money.
I do not mind bigger portions but for me and my partner there was enough meat too much meat that it felt like a waste. We felt bad wasting it so we used most of the meat but it made the ratio of everything else off. Flavor was good as always.
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