Beef / Pork

Lighter Meatballs takes 20 minutes to prepare.

Lighter Meatballs takes 20 minutes to cook.

Lighter Meatballs makes 24 servings.

The ingredients for Lighter Meatballs are:

Cooking spray
16 oz 80/20 ground beef chuck
16 oz Jennie-O Lean Ground Turkey
1 cup Ricotta Cheese, part skim milk
2 serving Egg white, large
.5 cup Bread crumbs, dry, grated, plain
1 tbsp Fresh Parsley (by FRANKKI1)
2 tsp Morton: Kosher Salt (by HOSSIEHOS)
0.25 tsp Crushed Red Pepper (by BACORONA)
.5 tsp Fennel seed, ground

Here is how you make Lighter Meatballs:

Preheat the oven to 450?F. Spray a 9?13-inch baking dish with cooking spray. Set aside.Combine the ground beef, turkey ricotta, eggs, bread crumbs, parsley, oregano, salt, red pepper flakes, and fennel in a large mixing bowl and mix by hand until thoroughly incorporated.Roll the mixture into round, golf ball-size meatballs (about 1 1/2 inches), making sure to pack the meat firmly. Place the balls in the prepared baking dish, being careful to line them up snugly and in even rows vertically and horizontally to form a grid. The meatballs should be touching one another.Roast for 20 minutes, or until the meatballs are firm and cooked through. A meat thermometer inserted into the center of a meatball should read 165?F.When the meatballs are firm and fully cooked, remove them from the oven and drain the excess grease from the pan. At this point, you can choose to add some prepared tomato sauce to the dish and return the meatballs to the oven and continue roasting for another 15 minutes. or let them cool and freeze them for later use.Serving Size:?24 meatballs approx. 1.5" in diameter

The nutritional information for Lighter Meatballs is:

• Servings Per Recipe: 24
• Amount Per Serving
• Calories: 98.1

• Total Fat: 5.8 g
• Cholesterol: 28.2 mg
• Sodium: 219.7 mg
• Total Carbs: 2.2 g
• Dietary Fiber: 0.1 g
• Protein: 9.0 g