Anna's Eats

While you were all reading about my dinner in Philly at Pietro’s that I posted Wednesday night, I had dinner with my mom and she cooked for me! We had pasta with turkey meatballs Here’s how she made this tasty dish…

Hi, it’s Anna’s mom Gloria. I like popping in from time to time!

When Anna introduced me to ground turkey meat  I wasn’t thrilled at first because I didn’t quite like the taste. Now I really like it! I experimented with a few recipes and came up with some good ones.  I only use extra lean, white meat turkey which has 7% fat. If you can find turkey meat that has rosemary extract in it use that one, it tastes really good.

Here’s my basic recipe: For one pound of turkey meat I use ¼ cup bread crumbs, 1 egg, ¼ cup water and one medium onion sautéed. This makes the meat nice and moist. I also add salt, pepper and garlic powder.

My favorite recipe is turkey meatballs in tomato sauce. 

From start to finish: 

Mix the turkey meat with all the ingrediants listed above in the basic recipe.

Next, make walnut sized balls with the turkey meat.

Then, fry them in olive oil so they brown on all sides.

Put 2 cans of crushed tomatoes in a saucepan and season to taste. Cook for 20 minutes on a simmer. Then add the turkey meatballs and cook for an additional 20 minutes.

Boil your favorite pasta, and you have dinner!

I also make turkey burgers.  I use the same recipe as above, but I add in 1 cup of chopped spinach. Thaw  frozen spinach, but do not boil it. Squeeze out the excess water and add the spinach to the mixture. I fry the burgers in a very small amount of olive oil. They are very tasty!

Turkey meat can be sticky to handle so when I make the meat balls I use a teaspoon and shape them as I push them off the spoon. When I make the burgers, I make them ahead of time and refrigerate them on wax paper.

What’s your favorite turkey recipe???

Until next time, take care