Ground Turkey Meatballs

July 11, 2012 By

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I’ve mentioned this before, but when I’m not eating dessert, I do my best to eat healthy foods.

Ground turkey is one of my favorite “replacements.”  You really can’t tell that big of a difference between turkey and hamburger meat, or at least I think you can’t.

I’ve never made meatballs before, so for my first time, I thought these turned out pretty well.  I just couldn’t tell when they were finished, so good luck with that. I finally decided they were done when they started getting crispy, but I’m sure there’s a more scientific way to tell.

What’s your favorite “healthy” meal?

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Ground Turkey Meatballs
From: All Recipes

Ingredients

  • 2 tablespoons olive oil
  • 1 (20 ounce) package ground turkey
  • 1 egg, beaten
  • 1/3 cup Italian seasoned bread crumbs

Directions

  1. Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease a 9×13 inch baking dish with the olive oil, and place it in the oven while preheating.
  2. In a medium bowl, mix together the ground turkey, egg, and bread crumbs using your hands. Using an ice cream scoop if possible, form the meat into golf ball sized meatballs. Place about 1 inch apart in the hot baking dish. Press down to flatten the bottom just slightly.
  3. Bake for 15 minutes in the preheated oven, then turn them over, and continue baking for about 5 more minutes, or until somewhat crispy on the outside. Serve with pasta and sauce or however you’d like.  I stored mine in pasta sauce and really liked the flavor afterward.

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Turkey Burger and 3 Bean Casserole

July 6, 2012 By

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I hope you guys had an awesome 4th of July!

I didn’t post a recipe because the cookies I made turned out so ugly.  They were the best chocolate chip cookies I’ve ever made, though, so I’m going to remake them without food coloring and post the recipe soon.  I was just trying to be patriotic.

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We’ll just chalk that one up to a failed attempt.  The more I made, the more the colors ran together, the uglier they got.

What did you guys do for the 4th? I just hung out at the pool all day, ate some yummmmy steak for dinner, played volleyball, ate a lot, etc.  Not too much… pretty relaxing.

Anyway, so I made this casserole and while I was gathering the ingredients I realized I had Cowboy Baked Beans before (back in the day when I didn’t know how to take good pictures… don’t judge), which are basically the same thing.  But this has meat, so you can’t go wrong there.  This is my very favorite quick and easy dinner recipe.  If you like baked beans, this won’t disappoint you.

What’s your go-to dinner recipe?

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Turkey Burger and 3 Bean Casserole
Adapted from: Food.com

  • 2 lbs ground turkey
  • 2 cups onions, chopped
  • 1 1/2 cups ketchup
  • 1/2 cup brown sugar, packed
  • 2 teaspoons mustard
  • 4 teaspoons vinegar
  • 2 tablespoons garlic, dry,flaked
  • 2 (16 ounce) cans lima beans, with liquid
  • 2 (16 ounce) cans kidney beans, with liquid
  • 2 (16 ounce) cans pork and beans, with liquid

Directions:

  1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
  2. Brown turkey and onions, and drain off excess fat (if there is any).
  3. Combine ketchup, brown sugar, mustard and garlic flakes; add to meat mixture and mix well.
  4. Place in a buttered 6 quart baking container, and bake 1 hour.

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