Turkey Meatballs with Spaghetti
Low fat turkey meatballs, Italian style.
Servings: 4
Ingredients
- 1 small onion
- 1 pound ground dark meat turkey
- 1 tablespoons olive oil
- 2 clove garlic minced
- 1/4 cup pecorino romano cheese (or parmesan
- 1 tablespoon parsley chopped
- few sprigs fresh thyme or 1/2 teaspoon dried
- 1/2 cup breadcrumbs made from stale bread
- 1 egg
- 1/2 teaspoon sea salt
- fresh ground pepper
Instructions
- Saute onion and garlic in 1 tablespoons olive oil. Cool.
- Add onion and garlic and all the olive oil into the ground turkey.
- Mix all ingredients together.
- Roll into small meatballs 1 1/2 inch diameter.
- Bake in oven at 375 for approximately 20 minutes, turning once.
- (At this point you can cool and freeze meatballs for another day)
- Finish in tomato sauce on top of stove.
- Use your favorite tomato sauce, and cook spaghetti according to directions.
- This is enough meatballs to accompany 1 pound of spaghetti.