Ounce for ounce, turkey compares favorably to beef and pork in terms of the amount of fat it contains, although dark meat tends to have a little more fat than white meat.
A 3-ounce serving of cooked, skinless turkey breast has at least half the calories of lean beef or pork (about 129 calories) and a fraction of the total fat. The same serving of beef or pork, depending on the cut, can offer more than 12 grams of fat, while turkey breast has only 2.6 grams of total fat.
This recipe originally appeared in the 1989 story “Think turkey: Turkey sausages and other new products can replace typically high-fat meats on a low-fat diet”by Toni Tipton-Martin.
