Southwestern Turkey Meatballs

Slimming Eats Recipe

Serves 4

Extra Easy – 0.5 syns per serving

Ingredients

For the meatballs

• 700g of Extra Lean Ground Turkey
• 1 small onion
• 2 tablespoons of tomato paste
• handful of coriander
• 1 clove of garlic
• salt and black pepper

For the sauce

• 1 red onion, chopped
• 1 carrot, chopped
• 1 stick of celery, chopped
• 1 carrot, chopped
• 2 cloves of garlic
• 1 jalapeno
• 1 red pepper, finely chopped
• 1 green pepper finely chopped
• 2 teaspoons of cumin
• 2 teaspoons of paprika
• 1 teaspoon of oregano
• 2 teaspoons of brown sugar (2 syns)
• some fresh parsley chopped
• 1 cup (240ml) of passata
• 2 cups (480ml) of chicken stock
• 1/2 cup (120ml) of frozen sweetcorn
• 1 400g tin of black beans, drained and rinser
• fresh coriander
• Frylight or Pam spray

Method

For the meatballs

Add the garlic, tomato paste, onion and coriander to a mini food processor. Add to the turkey mince and season with some salt and black pepper

Mix into the turkey mince, until all ingredients are thoroughly combined.

The mixture will prob be quite sticky, but this is fine, it just means your meatballs will be quite rustic, but I think they are better like this.

Form into approx 20 meatballs and add to a frying pan over a medium high heat sprayed with Frylight or Pam spray, you will prob want to do them in two batches to brown, as otherwise you won’t have much room to turn them over.

Cook your meatballs until lightly golden and then remove from the pan and set aside.

Now you can make the sauce.

Add your onion, garlic, celery , jalapeno and carrot to a mini food processor and blitz a few times until finely chopped.

Add to the frying pan and fry until softened.

Add the red pepper, green pepper, spices, oregano and parsley  and mix to evenly combine.

Add the tomato paste, passata, stock and brown sugar

Bring to a boil and then simmer for approx 20 mins until sauce reduces down, using a hand blender roughly blend up some of the mixture.

Add the sweetcorn and black beans.

Drop back in the meatballs and simmer for another 20 mins until meatballs are fully cooked through.

Top with some freshly chopped coriander

Serve with your choice of sides (I had rice) and a dollop of fat free greek yoghurt

The recipe above has been calculated for Slimming World, however for those of you following the Weight Watchers plan or another calorie controlled type diet. Below is the approx nutritional information:

 

Approx NUTRITIONAL INFORMATION
1 serving
Calories	408
Fat	4.5g
Saturated Fat	1g
Total Carbohydrate	41.1g
Dietary Fibre	9.6g
Sugars	12.7g
Protein	50.5g

Filed under: below 2 syns, Extra Easy, grains, beans or pulses, main course, turkey