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Honey-Lemon Glazed Turkey Meatballs
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Anna
November 23, 2015
Making these for Thanksgiving. Any suggestions for making 1 day ahead?
lapadia
November 23, 2015
Hi Anna! Happy to hear you are including these meatballs for your Thanksgiving. I love preparing ahead of time.
I’d would:
1. Make the glaze, step 5, a day ahead, cool, refrigerate overnight.
2. Preheat oven. Follow steps 2, 3 & 4 and then cool & refrigerate the meatballs overnight.
3. Next day: take meatballs & glaze out of fridge about ½ hour ahead, bring to room temp.
4. Meanwhile: Preheat the oven. Add some coconut to your oven proof skillet.
5. Start the glaze heating.
6. After the oven has heated to temperature; place the skillet in the oven to heat the pan & coconut oil…about 5 minutes.
7. Add the meatballs to the heated skillet; carefully swish them around, place in the oven for a couple minutes…just to start the heating process. Take back out of oven.
8. Finally, follow step 6 & 7.
Enjoy :)
I’d would:
1. Make the glaze, step 5, a day ahead, cool, refrigerate overnight.
2. Preheat oven. Follow steps 2, 3 & 4 and then cool & refrigerate the meatballs overnight.
3. Next day: take meatballs & glaze out of fridge about ½ hour ahead, bring to room temp.
4. Meanwhile: Preheat the oven. Add some coconut to your oven proof skillet.
5. Start the glaze heating.
6. After the oven has heated to temperature; place the skillet in the oven to heat the pan & coconut oil…about 5 minutes.
7. Add the meatballs to the heated skillet; carefully swish them around, place in the oven for a couple minutes…just to start the heating process. Take back out of oven.
8. Finally, follow step 6 & 7.
Enjoy :)
Blissful B.
March 21, 2011
When I told my husband I was making turkey meatballs, he laughed & said, why? It was fun to see the look on his face when he took his first bite. He said he's never had ground turkey that flavorful. Thank you for this recipe. It's definitely a keeper! Since I was serving it over angelhair pasta, I chose not to thicken the sauce. I just whisked together the syrup ingredients (subbing mango chutney for the plum sauce) & poured it over the meatballs. When the meatballs were cooked, I poured the leftover liquid over the pasta. Voila - dinner served. I'm planning on trying your turkey burger variation next time though, and for that I will thicken the sauce. Do you top the burgers with anything, or are they flavorful enough that all they need is the bun?
lapadia
March 21, 2011
Hi BlissfulBaker! I am thrilled you and your husband liked my recipe. Subbing the mango sounds great, really any sweet sauce will do. When we have done the burger variation, I don't make the lemon sauce, we just bbq them and used all the condiments (of choice) we use for a ground beef burger. I also like to put them on my homemade slider buns - recipe onsite. BUT...you gave me a great idea to thicken the sauce and make the burger...I will try that next time and try a coleslaw mix on it...yum! Glad you liked and thanks for your idea :)
lapadia
March 2, 2015
Ha...just noticed (finally) my reply, above, should be addressed to Phoenix Helix :) oops.
Blissful B.
March 17, 2011
Lemon & ginger are 2 of my favorite flavors, so this is on my list to try. Regarding the sauce, is there enough leftover to flavor the rice, or do you recommend doubling the sauce, or pre-flavoring the rice in another way?
lapadia
March 17, 2011
Hi and Happy St. Pat's! There is enough sauce for rice, I recall keeping a small leftover container of it in the refridgerator and having seconds. Enjoy! (ps - I have also made bbq slider-sized burgers with this turkey ingredient combo, and they were gobbled up by everybody, even the people who were skeptical of a turkey burger..who went back for seconds!)
Lizthechef
August 11, 2010
This has been added to my Meyer lemon recipes is an instant!!
lapadia
August 11, 2010
OH! Meyer lemon would be fantastic to use with this glaze. Thanks and enjoy when you make it!
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