"Ea mănâncă curcan pe orez."
Translation:She eats turkey on rice.
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'Pe' means 'on (to something)', where as 'cu' means 'with'. Let me give you a short example:
Eu pun telecomanda pe masă. (I put the remote on the table)
Eu mă uit la televizor cu Maria (I am watching TV with Maria)
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pe orez implies the turkey is on the rice and cu orez implies that the turkey is mixed up with the rice. So both are correct but have slightly different meanings. The translation "with rice" could arguably apply to both pe or cu.
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Then why is this sentence "Ea mănâncă carcan pe orez." and not "Ea mănâncă carcan cu orez."
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That sentence is actually quite odd and I think the developers of the Romanian course should consider changing it to 'cu', because that's how we say it in the part of Romania where I live.
On point, 'cu' makes that sentence sound much more natural than 'pe' does.