Makes dinner for two, with leftovers for lunch.
Approximate cooking time: 45 minutes
Ingredients
- 1 lb ground turkey or chicken
- 2 medium carrots (or a handful of baby carrots)
- 1 red or green bell pepper
- 5 large mushrooms
- handful of fresh parsley
- 1/2 yellow onion
- 1 clove garlic
- 2 tsp granulated garlic (garlic salt)
- 2 Tbs Italian seasoning
- 1/2 tsp freshly ground black pepper
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350℉.
- Combine carrots, bell pepper, mushrooms, onion, garlic and seasonings in a food processor and blend until well chopped.
- Empty the food processor into a large bowl, add the ground turkey and mix together completely.
- Form meatballs and place on a non-greased baking sheet (about 1 1/2" - 2" each). Bake for about 25 minutes, or until completely cooked.
25 Comments
carlakimball
Very nice improvement on the update you just did. Please check out however when you print a recipe it prints several pages beyond just the recipe.
Also I added to the Turkey meatballs about 1/4-1/2 cup of sliced mushrooms in the cuisinart to make the meatballs a little juicer and make the meatballs a darker color like beef meatballs. The next morning I sliced some meatballs and put them into my scrambled eggs with a dash of the leftover cauliflower rice. It gave the eggs a nice warm mild spice taste with the green onion plus all the vegetables from the meatballs made the eggs fantastic and very satisfying. Lovely!!!!
Jason G.
First of all, glad you liked the improvements.
Second, your right, I completely forgot to style the printed pages. Please try again, they should look very nice and clean now. Let me know if you’d have any other changes.
Finally, that’s a great tip on the mushrooms and breakfast, I’ll add those to the recipe.
kwelty
This recipe tastes great too! It is simple to make, and I too added the mushrooms which just added a little flavor and coloring. Another note, pay attention to step 2 regarding generously season … If you don’t they do come out a bit bland. Also, if you are cooking for one in this format, sometimes preparing everything ahead and allowing for variety can be an issue. So this recipe works well if you need to freeze a few portions.
Jeff
I ran short on time so I decided to bake them in a muffin pan. Also, I used olives instead of mushrooms since I’m not to fond of them.
Leila
Ok, so I haven’t ordered your program yet because I wanted to try some of your recipes first. I’m not the Paleo person in the house but I cook for him so I might be a little off on the what is allowed list.
Anyways, when you say some peppers do you mean one of each or as much as I want or however much measured by cupful chopped?
I would also like to offer up a suggestion of using zucchini instead of peppers. They are moist and the flavor is less poignant than peppers so you can more easily disguise these as real meatballs. Oh, and I have found that the key to browning meatballs is olive oil in a non non-stick pan. It allows for better browning. However, I did have a hard time browning them without charing them before they were done inside so once they were sufficiently browned I put them on a pan and baked them for about 10 minutes at 350.
Chrisjon2003
What is the portion size for this recipe?
Jason G.
In general, portion sizes are based on 4oz of meat per person.
Glenda
This is so ironic, got on the website for the first time although I have been following this diet due to my master trainer from 24 hrs fitness gym. Never seen this recipe. But I made something similar, I made a ground turkey meatloaf. With shreded carrots zuccini, cilantro, bell peppers and onions. Used the leftover for my eggwhite omlet…smile
I love this diet, it has help me to loose 48 lbs in 3 months
Glenda
Oh, I also added spinach to the ground turkey meatloaf
Dani
new to paleo cooking…is it ok to add one egg to this recipe as a binder?
Neely
Yes, absolutely. Eggs are definitely Paleo.
wndytyme
These had a potential to be so very yummy but I had a real problem at first with them being too “wet”. I had to add some almond meal to get them to bind. Did I do something wrong or miss something? I made some with almond meal (not so good) and some with regular italian bread crumbs and the ones with the bread crumbs tasted so much better (and I cant eat those, grrr) Any suggestions?
fiercetyper
Hmmm… They ARE a little bland, aren’t they? I’m not fancy enough in the kitchen to think of another spice to add, but I did eat them with organic ketchup (Not sure if that’s Paleo, though :-( ) and then they were really tasty!
lookslike2
Love these! Mmmm and yummy!
Quick tip, go heavy on the seasoning, use a bit more than what the recipe calls for or they will be bland. Mine were a bit soggy at first, but once I baked them I was good to go. I had to bake a bit longer than the recipe, use your best judgement and watch them.
Jlacubanag
I thoroughly enjoyed the turkey meatball dinner before the update & am so disappointed its been taken off the recipes page…would love to get my hands on it.
Neely
@Jlacubanag – Looking into this right now. We may have it back up by the end of the day if there was nothing wrong with it. We just added a bunch of new recipes and possibly just took it down to avoid repetition. We’ll see what we can do! Thanks for your feedback.
Neely
Athensalie
This was outstanding: served with Paleo tomato sauce and spaghetti squash. I did follow the other reviewer’s suggestion to add an egg for binding. I had no problem with browning (maybe b/c of the egg?) but did notice that the meatballs released quite a bit of liquid. I’d recommend baking on a broiler pan to allow the liquid to drain. All in all-these were awesome! highly recommended :)
Sarah
I made these as written and they were great. Not exactly balls, more like blobs. Tasty blobs.
dazzyboy10
This may be a silly question but as I am new to this plan, I’m assuming that it is a pound of raw turkey/chicken meat and not cooked. Also would there be an alternative to the mushrooms as my partner won’t eat them.
Neely
dazzyboy10 – No problem. Yes, that’s the raw weight of the meat. And any veggie will do in place of the mushrooms. Maybe try more onions and more peppers to substitute for them?
dazzyboy10
Thanks Neely. My local market won’t do ground turkey or chicken as they say it isn’t cost efficient as it uses more than what you get back from it so may have to leave out that meal.
mcal
We’ve loved nearly all the recipes so far, but not this one. They didn’t brown well and were quite soggy. Also way too oniony- it overpowered the other flavors. We added an egg for binding the meat together, as well as a bit of almond meal (like you would bread crumbs with nonpaleo meatballs) but still they were way too moist and not browned enough. I’d make a couple of suggestions: increase the temp to 400 for browning, and cut back on the onions and mushrooms – I think both release liquid when cooking, which is why these were too wet. We’ll try other veggies instead of onion and mushroom next time.
Rachel
Mine were runny/too moist as well but I added about 3 tbsp of coconut flour and they turned out perfect! I thought about adding almond flour, but that stuff is moist by nature. And we all know how coconut flour sucks ALL moisture from everything! Now if I just don’t over salt next time, they should be great :)
Faby
Made this yesterday, and when my husband tried it he went crazy. He wanted more!!! Then in the morning after our WOD he made two eggs and had and extra turkey vegetable meatball with it, so did I and I must say that it was great and pretty stuffing for a while. So yummy, can’t wait to try it with the spaghetti squash and some sauce!!
Rhi123
this may sound silly? is this a side dish??