Tonight, I think Scott and I found a new favorite meal. We raised a bar in our kitchen... those boring old recipes and casseroles are going to have to work hard to compete with this.
I just finished eating, and I'm still going to have to tell my stomach not to growl and my mouth not to salivate as I type out the recipe and post the picture. Mmmmm, it was fabulous!!!
Florentine Meatballs
(from Rachel Ray...who knew?!)
Ingredients:
1 box frozen spinach, defrosted in the microwave
1 1/3 lb ground turkey breast
1/2 of a medium onion, finely chopped (it called for all but 3 tbsp of a med onion, but we used 3 tbsp tonight and it was perfect...your call.)
3 cloves garlic, chopped
1 large egg
1/4 c milk
1/2 c grated Parm cheese
3/4 c bread crumbs
Olive oil
Directions:
Preheat oven to 400.
Wring out defrosted spinach. (Trivia: this is one of my LEAST favorite things to do in any recipe ever.) Place turkey in a bowl and make a well in the middle of it. Add the spinach, onion, garlic, egg, milk, bread crumbs, Parm and salt and pepper to taste. Mix well and form into 12 large balls. (Next time we will make more smaller balls. It makes 12 VERY large meatballs...) Place on a non-stick cookie sheet & drizzle with virgin olive oil. Cook for 20 min in the oven until cooked through.
We LOVED them w/ a nice soft bakery sub roll. And some tomato sauce, and a slice of provolone cheese... Mmmmm.
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5 comments:
Holy cow. I'm making these THIS WEEK.
I wonder if they freeze well?
I bet they'd freeze really well, actually! :)
yummm they sound great! a RR recipe that is actually tasty? amazing.
Dude, spinach inside the meatballs? I agree with you about squeezing out the spianch, but still sounds cool!
Yesterday I bought 4 lbs. of ground turkey, used 3 boxes of frozen chopped spinach, a little over half of a large Vidalia onion, 9 cloves garlic, 4 eggs, maybe 1/2 c. milk (probably less), 1 c. Parm, and 1 1/2 c. bread crumbs. So I didn't triple or quadruple the recipe, but pretty much eyeballed it. I browned them in olive oil and then put them in the crockpot with spaghetti sauce (2 jars) for about 5 hours. (Note: 4 lbs. do NOT fit in my crock pot, but 3 lbs. wouldn've been perfect!) We had them tonight, and OMG, they're really good! So come on over - I've got plenty!! I'll let you know how well they freeze :-).
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