My four year old son’s latest food obsession is meatballs. It’s because he got them served to him at his friend’s house. When he finally finds something that he loves, I try to make it for him over and over again because he’s such a picky eater. However, I prefer that he doesn’t eat a lot of red meat. I recently made him chicken meatballs as an alternative, and he could barely taste the difference (aka, he loved them). Melissa Jacks has an even healthier recipe using turkey. These are melt in your mouth good and you can batch make them and freeze some for later. Since winter doesn’t appear to be going away any time soon, these are sure to warm you and your kids on a cold winter’s day.
RECIPE
Prep Time: 10 Minutes Cook Time: 120 Minutes Ready in: 130 Minutes Serves: 4 servings
Ingredients
- 1 lb. ground turkey
- 1 large egg
- 1-2 garlic cloves, chopped
- 1 tsp onion powder
- Salt and black pepper to taste
- ¼ c seasoned bread crumbs
- 1 ½ cups tomato sauce
- 1 cup diced tomatoes, canned
- 1 ½ – 2 cups chicken broth, low-sodium
Instructions
1. In a medium bowl, combine first 5 ingredients and form into small balls.
2. Meanwhile, place remaining ingredients into a pot and bring to a boil. Add meat balls gently into pot, reduce heat to low and let simmer, covered, for about 2 hours.
Meal Options
* Serve over 1 ½ cups spaghetti squash cooked. Pour sauce from meatballs over squash and sprinkle with 1 tbsp. light parmesan cheese (optional).
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These sound so tasty! I love turkey as a substitute for ground beef.
sounds tasty , bookmarking .. Im going to have to make a whole new folder for recipes now lol
WOW,these look super delicious
They sound really tasty, we have started to use ground turkey more in our recipes. Will have to make a batch of these up to try. Thanks for the recipe 🙂
These look good.
I’m going to try this turkey meatball recipes. My son is also in the meatballs phase, but it has to be mini ones!!
Jeannie Lam
What a great substitution! Love anything turkey so my family would love these! Thanks for the recipe!
This sounds really yummy!
These look great! Yum!
Great sounding recipe – a nice alternative to ground beef
This looks delicious! I must try it!
We always make turkey burgers but never thought to make them as meatballs. Great idea!
that looks really tasty
yummy looks and sounds delish thanks for sharing the recipe , my hubby loves meatballs he will love these ones a lot 🙂
This looks so good, can’t wait to try!
Yummmm, I would love to make these, can’t wait to try them
Thanks for the recipe we had this for supper,it was delicious
So happy to hear that! Thanks for sharing 🙂