Add two cups of water to a pot and ring to a boil. Add in one cup of rice, cover and reduce heat to low. Cook for 25-20 minutes until rice is fully cooked.
Saute chopped onions in a heated and oiled pan. Add in the ground turkey, season with whatever you would like (I used some Ms. Dash Southwestern seasoning, garlic, cayenne, S&P and chili powder). Ground turkey lends itself well to hot spices!
Grab a large sweet potato and wash and puncture a few holes all around. Wrap in a wet paper towel and nuke the little tater for 5-8 minutes (depending on size and strength of microwave oven). Set the sweet potato aside and then heat up your mixed veggies or stir fry them in the pan after removing the ground turkey.
I chose to layer my shepherds pie like so . . .
Top-to-bottom
Sweet potato with cinnamon
ground turkey
veggies
rice