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Turkey with Balsamic Vinegar
By cynthiabrown | August 20, 2008
This new Zone™ Italian recipe is easy to prepare, delicious, and will help you stay In the Zone™. The recipe is full of crisp, healthy summer vegetables that will make a colorful arrangement on your plate. The turkey is simple and quick to cook, the vegetables only need to be chopped, and then already you have a bright, tasty Italian meal made right at home.
This recipe is direct from our Zone Partners in Italy.
Tacchino all’Aceto Balsamico
(Turkey with Balsamic Vinegar) 
4 Block Meal
Ingredients:
4 ounces turkey
½ cup cherry tomatoes (halved)
1 cup radishes (sliced)
1 cup fennel (thin slices)
½ cup carrots (cut into sticks)
1 cup bell peppers (strips)
3 apricots (halved)
½ cup balsamic vinegar
¼ cup vegetable broth
fresh rosemary
1¼ teaspoon Zone Extra Virgin Olive Oil
lemon juice
fresh sage leaves
salt
Instructions:
In a nonstick frying pan, heat a bit of vegetable broth. Add sage and rosemary and let cook for a few minutes. Add turkey with a bit of salt. Cook until meat is browned. Remove turkey from pan, keep warm and discard sage and rosemary. In the same pan add balsamic vinegar to the remaining juices, cooking over high heat and stirring well. Return turkey to pan, finish cooking and serve with the sauce from the pan. Cut tomatoes in half, radishes into rounds, and fennel into thin slices, bell peppers into thin strips and the carrots into small sticks. Mix all and dress with oil, lemon juice and a bit of salt. Complete the balance with the apricots.
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