Today’s pick is Alicante Turkey Meatballs. It is a tasty and light-weight ground turkey preparation, ideal as a dinner startup. You can use packaged turkey broth for this preparation in case you want to control calorie intake. Lower-sodium and fat-free turkey is available in the malls. For these ground turkey recipes, you need to cook the turkey broth together with saffron for the stock. This is a delicious preparation and you will love its smell and texture. It is good for your health as you are using least amount of fat and carbs.
Things you need
Alicante Turkey Meatballs belong to the easy ground turkey recipes that you can prepare anytime. Most of the ingredients can be found at the kitchen. Therefore, it is an ideal preparation when guests arrive suddenly in your home. Offering turkey as a welcome palate is a traditional way of showing respect to your guests. The ingredients for this great ninja blender recipes are as follows:
• 1/2 turkey liver properly minced to 1 tbs.
• 2 nos. celery stalks, slantwise cut in 1 inch sizes
• 4 ounces of ground turkey
• 4 ounces of ground pork
• 2 cups of Turkey-Saffron stock
• 1/2 cup fresh parsley leaves (flat leaf is preferred)
• 2 tbs. olive oil
• 2 slices of white bread
• 1/3 cup milk (fat-free milk is preferred)
• 1 tbs. finely chopped pine nuts
• A garlic clove
• Salt to taste
Preparation
First, you need to put parsley leaves, white bread and garlic clove in a ninja blender. Blend them well until the ingredients gets finely ground.
Now, pour milk in a medium bowl and put that breadcrumb mixture into it. You should wait for 5 minutes.
Then, add the coarsely chopped pine nuts, salt, ground turkey, minced turkey liver and ground pork into the prepared milk mixture.
Now, use your hands to make 12 round shaped meatballs. Be specific about the size of each meatball. The meatballs should contain one and half tablespoon of mixture.
After preparing all the items, it’s time to cook. Take a medium sized nonstick skillet and heat it to medium-high.
Add olive oil to the skillet and swirl gently to coat.
Put the prepared meatballs into the pan and fry for 4 minutes until the balls turn to brown. Remove the fired meatballs from the pan and wipe it clean.
Again, warm-up the pan to medium-high and add the Turkey-Saffron stock together with the chopped celery. Bring the oven to simmer.
Now, put the fried meatballs into the pan. Ensure that the meatballs are properly dipped into the soup.
Cover the pan and let it cook in simmer mode for 10 minutes. Check whether the meatballs are properly done.
Garnishing
Turn off the oven after the meatballs are properly cooked. Take 6 shallow bowls and put two meatballs in each. Add 1/3 cup of the soup mix into each of them. Garnish the bowls with parsley leaves. Serve the ground turkey hot.
Recipe Time
These easy ground turkey ninja blender recipes can be prepared quickly. You can prepare it in about 35 minutes. The preparation of the dish should take 25 minutes or less according to the availability of proper ingredients in your kitchen. It will take around 10 minutes in the finishing task and garnishing.
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