Turkey Meatballs - Clean Eating Style

I don't know about you, but prior to starting on my clean eating journey, I would pick up a bag of frozen turkey meatballs or the prepared turkey meatballs and call it adding protein to our next pasta dish.

But, I found this recipe and it has taken me a couple times of making them to get them to where my family likes them.  I hope you enjoy them as much as we do.  Honestly, if I must say so myself, these are WAY better than the store bought ones!

Turkey Meatballs - Clean Eating Style

Ingredients:
1 1/2 lbs. Lean Ground Turkey
1 Egg
1/2 cp. Oatmeal***
3/4 tsp. Garlic Powder
1 tsp. Dried Basil
1 tsp. Dried Oregano
1 tsp. Onion Powder
1/2 tsp. Sea Salt
1/4 - 1/2 tsp. Crushed Red Pepper Flakes (if you like spicy go for the 1/2 tsp.)
Black Pepper

Directions:
- Preheat oven to 400 degrees.
- Mix all ingredients in a bowl using your hands to mix it together.
- Once mixed, shape the meat mixture into 1" round meatballs and place on a baking sheet or baking pan.
- Bake for 23 minutes.
- Add in spaghetti sauce or use for meatball sandwiches!  ENJOY!

- Makes about 24 1" meatballs.

** You can use quick cooking oats or the old fashioned oats.  If you use the old-fashioned oats, you might want to pulse them in a food processor a couple times so the oats aren't as big.  Also, if you have any non-oatmeal fans in your house, you might want to grind the oats down to a fine consistency as well.

Thanks for checking this out!

Sarah Strubhar
Independent Emerald Team Beachbody Coach