How To Make BBQ Turkey Meatballs with Bacon
Take a flavorful bite of these turkey meatballs cooked with bacon and cherry peppers, brushed with barbecue glaze, then baked until browned.
Serves:
Ingredients
For Meatballs:
- 1¼lbsground turkey,93% lean
- 4oxbacon,(6 slices), roughly chopped
- ½onion,quartered
- 2clovesgarlic,halved
- 2ozjarred cherry peppers,(about 4 whole)
- 10basil leaves
- 1tspthyme,fresh
- 1large egg
- ½cupwhole wheat Panko,or gluten-free Panko
- ½tspkosher salt
- freshly ground pepper,to taste
For BBQ Glaze:
- 2tbspsweet BBQ sauce
- 2tbspketchup
Instructions
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Preheat oven to 400 degrees F.
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In a small bowl, combine barbeque sauce and ketchup. Set aside.
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In a food processor fitted with a metal blade, combine bacon, onion, garlic, cherry peppers, basil, and thyme. Pulse about 10 times until combined and uniform in color and texture.
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In a large bowl, combine ground turkey, egg, panko, salt, and pepper.
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Add bacon-cherry pepper mixture to the bowl and mix until thoroughly combined. Using hands, form small round meatballs, about the size of a golf ball.
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Place the meatballs on a large baking sheet lined with parchment and with a pastry or silicone brush, lightly brush the meatballs with the barbeque-ketchup mixture.
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Bake for 12 minutes and then adjust the oven to broil.
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Broil for an additional 4 to 5 minutes, or until meatballs are cooked through and browned.
Nutrition
- Calories: 164.84kcal
- Fat: 9.58g
- Saturated Fat: 2.86g
- Trans Fat: 0.08g
- Monounsaturated Fat: 3.71g
- Polyunsaturated Fat: 2.12g
- Carbohydrates: 5.89g
- Fiber: 0.46g
- Sugar: 2.51g
- Protein: 13.81g
- Cholesterol: 65.38mg
- Sodium: 224.38mg
- Calcium: 26.89mg
- Potassium: 207.99mg
- Iron: 1.00mg
- Vitamin A: 31.00µg
- Vitamin C: 5.84mg
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