Healthy Parmesan Vegetable Turkey Spaghetti

Healthy Parmesan Vegetable Turkey Spaghetti is filled with hidden veggies, including grated zucchini, carrots, mushrooms and onions along with lean ground turkey. It is served over whole grain pasta for a light version of your favorite comfort food!

Sometimes we want to indulge in some of our favorite comfort foods, but aren’t looking for all the fat and calories that traditionally come with them. With the weather quickly cooling off in the Midwest, spaghetti is one of those recipes that is perfect to warm you up after a cold day. The best way to lighten up spaghetti is by incorporating lots of vegetables to bulk it up with the good stuff. For the Healthy Parmesan Vegetable Turkey Spaghetti, I added in grated zucchini, carrots, mushrooms and onion. They not only bulk it up, they also add great flavor!

To go along with the vegetables I browned some lean ground turkey for added protein. If you don’t already own a Hamburger Meat Chopper, I highly recommend you get one! I am always hesitant to add another gadget to my drawer, but this is one of my absolute favorites. It makes such light work of chopping up ground meat.

This dish calls for a LOT of grated vegetables. If you have a food processor or stand mixer with a grater attachment, I highly recommend you whip it out. If not, look at the bright side, it will be a nice arm workout. 😉

We can’t forget about flavor even though we aiming to make a healthy recipe. That’s why you will want to add in the Parmesan. This will add a nice salty and nutty flavor to the otherwise super lean pasta sauce. You can certainly skip it, but I wouldn’t recommend it.

If you aren’t fans of turkey, or it’s not readily available to you, extra lean ground beef would be a great option as well. I actually used Jennie-O’s Italian Seasoned Lean Ground Turkey for added flavor.

More healthy turkey recipes!

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Turkey Thai Peanut Lettuce Wraps

Serving: 1 grams