Kids & Veggie (green beans)

A few weeks ago I asked my friends "what would you want your kids to eat more of?" A lot of people said veggies. So since I have a non green bean lover... I made this. 

I don't know what to even call it. It's a spin on an Asian dish. I found rice noodles on sale for $3 (when they are almost always double/triple the cost. I had some ground turkey that I wanted to use and since I try to always have some kind of veggie I grabbed a can of green beans. I cooked the turkey and tossed in the green beans. I used my spatual and cut the green beans down in size.

I took a child's nutrition class when my girls were starting to eat food. One week our lesson was, that having food in bite size pieces already was a step in the right way to get kids to try new food. Also I learned that making familiar food was a good aid in helping kids eat new/food they don't like. So this is what also inspired this dinner, where we have some kind of Asian take out inspired meal a week. 

Once the super easy rice noodles are done cooking, they take about 5 minutes today to cook, toss them in the pan with the turkey and the green beans. Don't shake off the water too much, it helps with the sauce. 

Last is the sauce. When I cook with this sauce, I don't measure anything. I know it's not helpful for you, but I'll guess off of what I think my husband does his sauce as. (And yes they are different sauces and maybe one day I'll share his). It does consist of soy sauce (1/4 cup), some hosin sauce (table spoon) chili garlic sauce (heat level to your liking), and a teaspoon of brown sugar (this I know cause I grab a spoon for this). Mix it all together in a separate bowl and then put it in the pan with everything else. Combine everything together and serve. 

My non-green beaneater inhaled the dish, and the other one had no complaints. They even asked for seconds. I feel like this is an easy meal to make, even when it's over 100 outside & I'm wanting to use my on sale noodles and craving take out.

Ingredients: 

1/2 pack of rice noodles 

Ground turkey (I had half a large thing of it)

1 can green beans 

 1/4 cup soy sauce 

1 tablespoon hoisin sauce 

Chili garlic sauce (to your spice level liking)

1 teaspoon of brown sugar 

Cook ground turkey, add green beans and cut up to bite size pieces. Cook noodles in seperate pot. Once noodles are done, add to the pan with the turkey. Mix soy sauce, hoisin sauce, chili garlic sauce, and brown sugar in bowl. Once combined add to the pan with turkey, green beans and noodle. Mix all together and enjoy. 

*If you want to take it up a notch, add some Thai basil and lime juice Or some cilantro and lime juice after you plated your food*