Clean Eating Turkey Meatballs

Today I was craving spaghetti and meatballs. I decided to make the healthy version!

Ingredients:

1lb lean ground turkey

1/3 cup greek yogurt

2 cloves garlic 

1/2 cup onion

handful of spinach 

1/4 cup parsley

5 fresh basil leaves

3 sprigs of Thyme 

1 tsp salt

1/2 tsp pepper

4 1/2 cups tomato sauce of your choice 

This is an easy recipe. It follows the same theory of my turkey burgers, in regards to incorporating greek yogurt to make the meatballs more moist. 

Preheat your over to 350 degrees fahrenheit. Prepare a baking sheet, lined with foil and greased with olive oil.  Put all of your ingredients except the turkey, greek yogurt, salt and pepper into a food processor. Pulse until the ingredients are finely chopped. Once your seasoning is chopped, place all of the ingredients into a mixing bowl, and mix together until it becomes one uniform mixture. Take an ice cream scoop or a spoonful of the turkey mixture into your hands and form a ball. Place on the baking sheet. Repeat this until you've used all of the mixture. Place the meatballs in the oven for 20 minutes. 2 minutes before they're done, put your tomato sauce into a sauce pan on low heat (you don't want it to boil) so the sauce is warm when the meatballs are done. Once you take them out of the oven, get a frying pan and drizzle some olive oil into in on medium high heat. Place the meatballs in there, and cook for 2 minutes on each side. Once the meatballs are seared, place them into the sauce pot for about 10 minutes. 

I served my meatballs over Ezekiel pasta. Ezekiel pasta is a sprouted grain product that is low on the glycemic index, and high in protein. Just one serving of the pasta has 9 grams of protein. It's a better alternative than whole wheat.