It was fun grocery shopping again with a purpose. While going through the meatball part of the recipe the one ingredient I knew I had to replace was the bread crumbs that hold the meat together. I got a tip from my dietician though to just add parmesan in place of bread crumbs, in the end the bread crumbs are just empty calories and carbs, so cheese is always better.
Going to give the recipe out this time because these meatballs are to die for. Yummo, right Rach? I'm sure this recipe would be great for Turkey Burgers as well!
Turkey Meatball Recipe - So good you'll slap your mamma!
Pre-heat oven to 450, bake for 15 to 20 minutes.
2lbs of ground turkey
10oz. of fresh spinach chopped
3 garlic cloves crushed
one small onion fine chopped
salt and pepper
1 to 2 c. of parmesan ( Use as much as you want to get the meat to ball and stick )
- Mix by hand and ball up into good sized meatballs and place on a cookie sheet with sides incase of drainage. Brush some EVOO on top of each ball and bake.
Gravy - melt butter and ad the rest slowly while mixing.
3 T. of butter
3 T. of flour for thickening ( I used rice flour so I could eat the gravy, it worked great )
1 c. of chicken broth
2 c. of milk ( We don't drink milk anymore so I used "Coconut Vanilla Soy Milk" which turned out sweet and amazing. I totally suggest it)
- Bring to boil, then let simmer stirring off and on to thicken, add more flour if necessary.
- Serve on hoagie rolls, meatball it up and cover with gravy and serve with provolone cheese.
So there you have it. I love this recipe and will most likely make it again!
As for the salad, GeeRoss! It called for parsley being the main salad part. If you have ever eaten parsley, large amounts are terrible. Next time I'm going to make a simple salad with spinach. But who cares about salad when you got meatballs!
Evan has given this 2 thumbs up, he's been eating the balls all week. I can only eat 1 1/2 of the meatballs and Dex has been chowing on them like crazy, so great for kids too!
