The main ingredient of the dish is minced turkey. Due to the dietary variety of meat, the meatballs are not only tasty, they also contain few calories, but are rich in vitamins, amino acids and microelements.
There are various options for combinations of ingredients used and methods of heat treatment of the finished semi-finished product. Despite the variety of recipes in the standard set of source products include turnip, carrots, tomatoes, tomato paste or canned juice, salt and pepper. For breading use only flour.
General technological principles for cooking turkey meatballs
1. Preparatory stage. You need to defrost or cook the minced meat yourself, boil the pre-washed rice until half cooked or fully cooked, peeled, chopped or grated vegetables.
2. Sliced carrot and onion slices and put in minced meat, which must be salted, seasoned with spices and knead well and knead well.
3. Meatballs are only rounded. Formed meat balls pour sauce or boiling water, and then simmer or bake. Usually, semi-finished products are pre-paned in flour and fried slightly on both sides. For children's and gentle therapeutic nutrition, meatballs are steamed.
When serving, decorate the turkey meatballs with fresh greens, and pour the gravy formed during stewing. As a side dish to cooked hot second course you can offer: pasta, potatoes, cereals, vegetable salad or stew.
Recipe №1 Turkey meatballs stewed in a pan (with boiled rice)
Universal dish: for the holiday table, and for the usual homemade lunch or dinner.
Ingredients:
• 800 grams of minced turkey;
• 2 small chicken eggs;
• 2 - 3 garlic teeth;
• 1 tbsp. salt;
• 1 tsp. hops suneli;
• a glass of uncooked rice (round grain);
• 2 tbsp. sunflower seed oil (refined);
• 2 turnip bulbs;
• 3 carrots;
• 2 tomatoes;
• 5 sweet peas whole; • 3 large bay leaves;
• basil or oregano as desired;
• 0.5 liters of canned tomato juice.
Cooking Method:
1. In the minced meat add eggs, grated garlic, half of the salt, hops-suneli and rice, cooked until half cooked, mix until smooth. Leave to soak.
2. To browse on a deep-fat skillet in oil in moderate heat with stirring prepared vegetables in advance: chopped small onions, coarsely grated carrots, tomato cubes (approximately 10 minutes). Mix half of the vegetable zazharki with minced meat.
3. Roll the balls of walnut diameter with minced meat and place in 1 layer on roasted vegetables left in the pan. Salt, season with spices: pepper and basil or oregano.
4. Pour the meatballs juice and simmer with the lid closed fully for 20 minutes. Turn the other side, throw the bay leaf and continue to simmer another 10 minutes.
Recipe №2 Turkey meatballs baked in the oven (with raw rice)
Although the process is even more streamlined, the taste remains superb.
Ingredients:
• 700 grams of minced turkey meat;
• 1 egg;
• 0.5 cup rice;
• one and a half tsp. salts;
• pepper at its own discretion;
• vegetable oil for roasting;
• onion;
• 1 carrot;
• 3 tbsp. sour cream;
• half a liter of tomato juice.
Cooking Method:
1. Prepare the cutlet mass of minced meat, eggs and uncooked rice, then salt, pepper and knock out on the table. Roll up small balls of homogeneous mass.
2. Put the sour cream in the pan to the onions and carrots fried in oil, pour in the juice, dilute slightly with boiling water, mix and bring to the boil.
3. Spread round rougher on a high-breasted baking tray with a distance of 5 cm between each other and from the edges of the form. Pour hot sauce to completely hide the meatballs.
4. Cover the dish with meatballs with food foil and put in an oven preheated to 200ºC for 1 hour. After take out, but remove the foil after 20 or more minutes.
Recipe №3 Turkey meatballs cooked in a slow cooker (with green lentils)
A flavorful dish rich in protein.
Ingredients: • 0.7 kg turkey minced meat;
• 2 small chicken eggs;
• 5 medium garlic teeth;
• half tsp coriander;
• a pinch of salt;
• to taste ground black pepper;
• a glass of green lentils;
• 1.5 cups sour cream 15% fat;
• 50 grams of hard cheese.
Cooking Method:
1. Mix in minced eggs, half squeezed garlic, coriander, salt and pepper. Leave the mass to soak.
2. Boil the washed lentils in a saucepan for a quarter of an hour, cool slightly.
3. Connect the cooled lentils and cutlet mass, mix well and make small round lumps.
4. Put the meatballs in the multicooker bowl, pour sour cream in which the remaining crushed garlic is pre-mixed.
5. Sprinkle with grated cheese and activate the “Quenching” mode for an hour and a half.
Recipe No. 4 Turkey meatballs cooked in aerogrill (with broccoli sauce)
Light and nutritious dish. You can bake in the oven at 180 ºC.
Ingredients:
• 600 grams of minced meat;
• 1 onion;
• egg;
• half a cup of uncooked rice (round grain);
• to taste salt, ground black pepper and other seasonings;
• some flour for breading;
• 50 ml of refined sunflower oil;
• 300 g broccoli;
• 3 tbsp. sour cream 15% fat.
Cooking Method:
1. Add finely chopped onion, egg yolk, boiled rice, salt and spices to the minced turkey. Stir thoroughly.
2. Molded meatballs are breaded in flour and fried in a pan in hot oil on all sides.
3. After roasting, place the golden crust of meatballs in a ceramic or silicone baking dish.
4. Boil broccoli florets in salted boiling water to a bright green color (about a minute). Drain and cool slightly.
5. Pureen broccoli with a blender, add seasoning and sour cream. The sauce is ready! Pour the green sauce over the croquettes.
6. Put the grille in the middle position. Set the heating to 205 ºC and low speed. Cooking time 20 - 25 minutes.
Recipe number 5 Turkey meatballs baked in the oven with cream
A dish with creamy tenderness. Ingredients:
• half of yesterday's loaf;
• 200 ml of milk;
• 1 white onion;
• 500 grams of minced turkey meat;
• to taste salt and black pepper;
• 1 tbsp. clarified vegetable oil;
• a bunch of favorite herbs;
• 300 grams (or a little more) of hard cheese;
• 3 cloves of garlic;
• 0.5 liters of cream.
Cooking Method:
1. In a large deep bowl, soak the white bread without a crust in warm milk. Add to it the chopped onion, minced meat, salt, pepper and mix.
2. Roll up the size of medium-sized egg meatballs and put in a glass roaster, oiled.
3. Bake for 15 minutes in an oven heated to 200 ºC.
4. For pouring: mix chopped greens, cheese and garlic, stirring slowly, pour in cream.
5. Pour the sauce over the meatballs and put the mold back in the oven for about half an hour.
Recipe number 6 Turkey meatballs (with potato wedges)
Great combination of meat and side dish in one dish.
Ingredients:
• 5 potatoes;
• 1 turnip onion;
• 1 large carrot;
• 2 tbsp. sunflower seed oil (refined);
• 1 tbsp. tomato paste;
• 1 tbsp. flour;
• half a cup of uncooked rice (round grain);
• 600 grams of turkey minced meat;
• to taste salt, ground black pepper and other seasonings;
• 100 g fresh dill and parsley.
Cooking Method:
1. Cut peeled tubers into quarter-slices, soak in cool water for about half an hour.
2. Slicing onions and carrots in a deep frying pan in butter. Put the tomato paste, flour diluted in water and pour boiling water over it. Stew the sauce for 3 minutes.
3. Combine half-baked rice with minced meat, salt and pepper. Form rounds the size of a medium egg.
4. Put the potato layer on the bottom of a greased cast-iron pan. Place meatballs on top in 1 row and pour over gravy.
5. Add salt and spices after boiling. It remains to simmer on minimum heat for about 40 minutes.
6. A minute before the end of the cooking process, sprinkle with cutting fresh greens.
Recipe number 7 Turkey meatballs (with mushroom sauce)
Spicy gravy well complements soft meatballs.
Ingredients:
• 400 grams of minced turkey meat; • 2 potato tubers;
• 2 turnip bulbs;
• to taste salt, ground black pepper;
• 2 tbsp. vegetable oil;
• 200 g tray of champignons;
• 1 tbsp. softened sweet butter;
• 1 tbsp. with a pile of flour;
• 250 g glass of milk;
• Pinch of nutmeg powder.
Cooking Method:
1. Put the finely grated potatoes and onion, salt and black pepper in the minced turkey.
2. Fry the decorated meatballs in oil and fold them into a ceramic baking dish.
3. In another skillet, fry the sliced mushrooms in butter until the water evaporates. Spread butter, onion cubes to them, salt and pepper. Lightly fry.
4. Pour the flour into the pan with the sauce, quickly stirring the contents. Add warmed milk, ground nutmeg and, continuing to stir, cook for 5 minutes.
5. Coat the thick sauce of the meatballs. Put the form covered with a lid in a cold oven, set the temperature to 180 ºC and bake for half an hour.
Recipe number 8 Turkey meatballs (with zucchini, celery and oatmeal)
Superdietic juicy dish.
Ingredients:
• 0.5 kg minced turkey meat;
• 2 carrots;
• 1 young squash seedless;
• 1 turnip onion;
• 3 garlic cloves;
• celery stalk;
• salt, ground black pepper and favorite seasonings at discretion;
• 2 tbsp. quick oatmeal
Cooking Method:
1. Combine minced meat with grated carrots, zucchini, chopped onion, garlic and celery. Add salt, spices and oatmeal.
2. Put the meatballs into the thick-walled pot, pour boiling water and simmer for 30 minutes under the lid.
Recipe №9 Turkey meatballs baked in the oven (with cheese and tomatoes)
The perfect meal for dinner with your family.
Ingredients:
• 700 grams of minced meat;
• 1 egg;
• 2 turnip bulbs (100 gr);
• to taste salt and black pepper;
• 80 - 100 grams of hard cheese;
• 3 ripe tomatoes;
• 5 tbsp. sunflower seed oil (refined).
Cooking Method:
1. Mix the minced meat with egg, chopped finely onions, salt and pepper. 2. Pinching the cutlet mass in small portions, give them a round shape and spread on a metal baking sheet covered with a thin layer of butter.
3. Sprinkle generously with grated cheese and cover with tomato circles. Sprinkle with butter and bake for about half an hour at 200 ºC.
Recipe number 10 Turkey meatballs with boiled pumpkin (for children's menu)
A healthy dish from 1.5 years of age. When serving, pour sour cream.
Ingredients:
• 300 grams of peeled pumpkin;
• 750 grams of minced turkey;
• 2 chicken or 4 quail eggs;
• 3 tbsp. milk;
• 3 tbsp. flour;
• small onion turnip;
• 1 tsp. salt;
• a drop of refined vegetable oil;
• 2 sweet peas;
• Bay leaf.
Cooking Method:
1. Boil for a couple sliced pumpkin into large pieces, chop with a blender and cool slightly.
2. Combine minced meat, eggs, milk, sifted flour, finely chopped onion and pumpkin. Salt, knead until a homogeneous plastic mass.
3. Sculpt round meatballs, put in a greased roasting pan, put allspice, pour a little boiling water and simmer over moderate heat 20 - 25 minutes after boiling. At the end you can add laurel.
Recipe number 11 Turkey meatballs with semolina (separate dish for children's menu)
Appetizing orange color meatballs like kids.
Ingredients:
• small potato;
• medium sized carrot;
• 200 grams of minced turkey meat;
• 1 tsp. semolina;
• a little salt;
• 1 tbsp. sunflower or olive oil.
Cooking Method:
1. Potato grate on the side of the grater with large teeth, carrots - with the smallest.
2. Mix the grated vegetables with minced meat and semolina, salt.
3. Shape koloboks from uniform mince, lightly fry in butter.
4. Add boiling water to the pan to the level of 1 cm, and simmer under a covered lid on low heat for 20 minutes.
Recipe number 12 Boiled turkey meatballs (for children's menu)
Children's dish therefore meets the highest requirements.
Ingredients:
• 500 grams of turkey minced meat;
• medium-sized turnip onions; • 100 grams of uncooked rice (round grain);
• 1 egg;
• a bunch of fresh herbs (parsley, dill);
• 2 tbsp. tomato paste;
• a pinch of salt;
• 1 bay leaf;
• 2 black peppercorns;
• 2 tbsp. starch.
Cooking Method:
1. Add minced onion to the mince, blend the mixture to a smooth consistency with a blender.
2. Connect with raw rice, egg, chopped grass. Knead and form small balls.
3. In a saucepan with water (1 l) put the tomato paste and boil. Add salt and seasonings.
4. Dip the meat balls into the hot sauce and cook for 20 minutes.
5. Dilute the starch with water separately in a glass and pour into the saucepan with the meatballs, gently mixing the contents. Thickened sauce signals the readiness of the dish.
Successful turkey meatballs. Useful culinary tips and tricks in cooking
• It is preferable to use home-made minced meat by grinding white skinless fillet cooled with skin or from the thigh of a turkey in a meat grinder on a medium grid. You can skip 2 times.
• Onions, ground in a meat grinder with meat pulp, will give the finished dish juiciness. In the case of using purchased minced meat, it does not hurt to add onions, only very finely chopped.
• The cutlet bun must be dried up so that the structure of the meatballs does not become sticky.
• To get juicy meatballs, they should be poured with sauce completely so that they disappear.
• If you remove the foil covering the meatballs 10 minutes before the end of roasting time in the oven, they will be covered with a beautiful ruddy crust.
