Turkey Meatballs. While meatball purists might declare blasphemy, turkey meatballs are actually my favorite So we took to the kitchen to figure out how to make the juiciest, most flavorful turkey meatballs, and came. I have never found a turkey meatballs recipe that I really liked that much, until I tried these! Needless to say, I was SHOCKED by how tender and full of flavor this turkey meatballs recipe is.
Tender meatballs filled with onions and Parmesan, bathed in plenty of tomato sauce, are classics in every way except for one: They call for turkey instead of the usual beef (or beef-veal-pork combination).
Turkey Meatballs - Easy and Quick to Make!
My go-to recipe for tender, soft turkey meatballs!
You can have Turkey Meatballs using 14 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you cook that.
Ingredients of Turkey Meatballs
- You need of Ground Turkey.
- You need of Garlic Powder.
- You need of Dried Oregano.
- You need of Dried basil.
- It's of Veganless chicken seasoning (or regular powder chicken bullions).
- It's of Panko Bread (any type of bread crumbs is okay).
- It's of Salt and pepper.
- You need of Sazon. You will need the following:.
- You need of Sazon.
- You need 1 of Red, yellow, and green bell peppers.
- It's 1 of large white onion.
- Prepare 5 of garlic cloves.
- It's of Dried oregano.
- It's 1/3 cup of water.
I usually make a couple batches at a time and freeze them. Turkey meatballs are the perfect lightened up weeknight dinner! Serve them with some marinara over pasta or zoodles or just pile them on your plate and serve with some veggies. Serve the turkey meatballs with noodles or bread.
Turkey Meatballs instructions
- Sazon. Okay so I am Caribbean and we cook with fresh ingredients. We make sazon (some call it mojo) with red bell peppers, green bell peppers, yellow bell peppers, onion, garlic, sweet peppers (this is called gustoso in spanish markets), dried oregano and water. Put all ingredients in the blender This liquified seasoning is amazing on all of your meats. Once done set aside. First picture shows the sazon after it's been done..
- Place ground turkey in a bowl. Add the sazon, panko bread. 1/2 tbsp of dried basil, dried oregano. 1 tbsp of chicken seasoning. Add 1/2 tsp salt and pepper. Mix well adding more bread if meat mixture is too wet. You want meat that feels dense but still soft..
- After well combined, shape into balls. I use my hands as a guide for how big I want them, but you can use an ice cream scoop if you want uniform shaped ones. Place in the fridge for half hour to let them firm up and also the flavors to mix well into the meat..
- Fried the meat balls in a pan with enough oil. Making sure they don't burn and you turn them on all sides. If you have a deep fryer this works best (I need to invest in one but I'm not a fan of frying that much 🤣).
- This is how they look after fried. These are popular with kids too. Also, we dont really eat them like this, we then cook them in sauce and serve ontop of rice. What I did was place them in my slow cooker after I fried them and added my own sauce and let them slow cook for half hour. They are super delicious and moist. I hope you enjoy..
Remove the sheet of meatballs from the oven and spoon them into warm pasta sauce. These were the best turkey meatballs I've ever made. I used the fresh oregano rosemary and parsley and I think that made a big. Turkey Meatballs are perfect and completely tender all the way through without even a hint of toughness. This classic Italian Turkey Meatballs dish has become a family staple for us.