These tender, delicious turkey meatballs straight from your freezer make 30-minute meals easy and enticing.
Freezer-Friendly Turkey Meatballs
- Prep Time 40 min
- Total 1 hr 30 min
- Servings 32
- Ingredients 11
Ingredients
- 3 eggs, beaten
- 1 1/2 cups milk
- 8 slices white bread, crusts removed, cubed (about 5 cups)
- 40 oz ground turkey
- 2 teaspoons salt
- 1 large onion, finely chopped (about 2 cups)
- 6 cloves garlic, finely chopped
- 1 tablespoon Dijon mustard
- 1 teaspoon Worcestershire sauce
- 1/2 cup olive oil
- 3 cans (15 oz each) Muir Glen™ organic pizza sauce, if desired
Instructions
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Step1In large bowl, mix eggs and milk. Add bread; cover and refrigerate 20 minutes. Drain off and save 3/4 cup of the egg mixture, and discard remaining egg mixture. Stir bread and the 3/4 cup egg mixture with spoon until smooth. Add remaining ingredients except oil and pizza sauce, and stir gently until combined.
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Step2Heat oven to 400°F. Line 2 rimmed cookie sheets with cooking parchment paper. Top each pan with a rack. Spray with cooking spray.
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Step3Using wet hands, shape meatballs into 64 (1 1/2-inch) balls. Dip or brush bottoms of meatballs with oil, and place 1 inch apart on racks.
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Step4Bake 45 to 50 minutes or until instant-read thermometer inserted in center of meatballs reads 165°F. Serve with warmed pizza sauce.
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Step5To freeze, skip Step 2. After Step 3, place raw meatballs on parchment-lined cookie sheet; cover with plastic wrap, and freeze until firm, at least 2 hours. Label 8 quart-sized freezer plastic bags, including date, then add 8 meatballs to each. Press air out of bag, seal and freeze up to 3 months.
Nutrition
110
Calories
7g
Total Fat
8g
Protein
4g
Total Carbohydrate
0g
Sugars
Nutrition Facts
Serving Size: 1 Serving
- Calories
- 110
- Calories from Fat
- 60
- Total Fat
- 7g
- 11%
- Saturated Fat
- 1 1/2g
- 7%
- Trans Fat
- 0g
- Cholesterol
- 40mg
- 13%
- Sodium
- 220mg
- 9%
- Potassium
- 110mg
- 3%
- Total Carbohydrate
- 4g
- 1%
- Dietary Fiber
- 0g
- 0%
- Sugars
- 0g
- Protein
- 8g
% Daily Value*:
- Vitamin A
- 0%
- 0%
- Vitamin C
- 0%
- 0%
- Calcium
- 4%
- 4%
- Iron
- 4%
- 4%
Exchanges:
0 Starch; 0 Fruit; 0 Other Carbohydrate; 0 Skim Milk; 0 Low-Fat Milk; 0 Milk; 0 Vegetable; 1 Very Lean Meat; 0 Lean Meat; 0 High-Fat Meat; 1 1/2 Fat;Carbohydrate Choice
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