Healthy turkey meatballs

Whole foods recipe for 4 people, takes only 40 mins; recipe has rapeseed oil, onion, carrot, celery, garlic clove, fennel bulb, tomato passata, chicken stock, parsley, salad, turkey, porridge oat, fennel seed, garlic clove and oil.

Healthy turkey meatballs

Healthy turkey meatballs

Recipe by Chef Soomro Course: Whole foods
Servings

4

servings
Prep time

25 mins

Ingredients

  • Rapeseed Oil: 1 tbsp rapeseed oil
  • Onion: 1 onion, finely chopped
  • Carrot: 2 carrots, finely diced
  • Celery: 2 celery sticks, finely diced
  • Garlic Clove: 2 garlic cloves, thinly sliced
  • Fennel Bulb: 1 fennel bulb, halved and thinly sliced, fronds reserved
  • Tomato Passata: 500g carton tomato passata
  • Chicken Stock: 500ml reduced-salt chicken stock
  • Parsley: 2 tbsp chopped parsley
  • Salad: broccoli and potatoes or pasta and salad, to serve
  • Turkey: 400g pack lean turkey breast mince
  • Porridge Oat: 4 tbsp porridge oat
  • Fennel Seed: 1 tsp fennel seed, crushed
  • Oil: spray of oil

Directions

  1. Heat the oil in a large non-stick frying pan with a lid, then tip in the onion, carrots, celery, garlic and fennel, and stir well. Cover the pan and cook over a medium heat for 8 mins, stirring every now and then. Pour in the passata and stock, cover and leave to simmer for 20 mins.
  2. Meanwhile, tip the mince into a large bowl. Add the oats, fennel seeds and leaves, the garlic and plenty of black pepper, and mix in with your hands. Lightly shape into 25 meatballs about the size of a walnut. Spray or rub a non-stick pan with a little oil and gently cook the meatballs until they take on a little colour. Give the sauce a stir, then add the meatballs and parsley. Cover and cook for 10 mins until they are cooked through and the veg in the sauce is tender. Serve with broccoli and baby potatoes in their skins, or pasta and salad.