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Not everyone has the time – or energy – to spend hours in the kitchen after a long day at work or looking after the kids. Luckily, there’s plenty of tasty, nutritious and easy to prepare turkey recipes that you can simply throw into your slow cooker or crock pot and leave until dinner time. Here’s a few to get you started.

Turkey chilli (serves 4-6)

In your slow cooker or crock pot, add 1 large chopped onion, 2 chopped cloves of garlic, 1 chopped red pepper and 1tsp of chilli powder or chopped fresh chilli. Season well with salt and pepper, then mix in 2 cans of chopped tomatoes, 2 cans of kidney, haricot or black beans and 3tsp cumin.

Diced, minced or leftover roast turkey all work well – add 3-400g of whichever you prefer and set the cooker to low for 4-6 hours. Serve with plain boiled rice, sour cream and sprinkle with fresh chopped coriander.

Turkey stuffed peppers (serves 4)

Mix together 2 cups of cooked rice, 1 chopped onion, 2 chopped garlic cloves and 1 stick of chopped celery with 1 can of chopped tomatoes. Add 250g diced, minced or leftover roast turkey and 1tsp paprika. The mixture should be moist but not loose – if it looks too wet, stir in a little extra rice. Next, simply fill 4 peppers with the turkey mixture and stand them up in the slow cooker. Cook for 4-6 hours on low, or 2-4 hours on high.

Slow roast turkey

This is an ideal way to get moist, full of flavour meat that falls off the bone, all with the minimum of fuss. First, chop a mixture of onions, leeks, carrots, celery, potatoes and any other veg you fancy and layer them along the bottom of your slow cooker. Next, add 3-4 cloves of garlic, a sprig of rosemary and a few sprigs of thyme. Season well with salt and pepper.

Now rub your turkey all over with salt, pepper and a little oil or butter. Place it breast side up on the chopped veg in your slow cooker and pour in 1pt chicken or turkey stock. Cook on high for 1 hour, before turning to low and cooking for a further 8-10 hours, or until the meat flakes when pressed gently with a fork.

For more information, or to see some more of our delicious, quick and easy turkey recipes, visit the Leanonturkey.co.uk website.

If you’re a bit of a masterchef at home, try turkey in your recipes and make some fabulous new versions of classic dishes.

Where you’re thinking of chicken – go turkey. How about swapping turkey for your usual meat not only in family favourites – like spaghetti Bolognaise or Stir Fry – but in upscale gourmet dinners to impress your friends? How about Turkey Tikka Masala? Or Turkey Kebabs – Turkish-style? There are so many recipes for turkey that you can try, and lots of reasons to eat and serve more turkey – good value, great flavour, and amazing versatility.

Turkey recipes can also help towards a healthier balanced diet. Bernard Matthews Farms supports http://changeyourmeatnotyourmenu.co.uk/ a website that is packed with ideas and on how you can serve your family’s favourite recipes, but give them a healthier twist by simply substituting turkey for your usual meat choice. For example by using turkey mince instead of beef mince in spaghetti Bolognese or pasta Carbonara, you can reduce your saturated fat intake by up to two thirds, that’s 11g per average portion! It really is that easy.

And turkey breast meat is also high in protein and low in fat, which makes it the top option to give your family a more nutritious and balanced diet.

Bernard Matthews Farms turkey cooked meat products such as slices, wafer thin and chunks are also a healthier choice – typically under 3% fat – and are equally versatile in recipes for family favourites. Their website has loads of great recipe ideas and inspirations using their cooked meat products and there are even ideas for recipes using turkey leftovers.

Browse the recipe section of their website you’ll come away with some exciting new ideas.