Healthier Alternatives: Steamed Turkey Meatballs

Recently, I decided to give an Italian-inspired meal an East Asian twist.  Making meatballs Asian (dim sum) style and serving it with rice and seaweed noodles rather than wheat.  This is not a difficult recipe to make.  It’s basically a simple meatball recipe, but steamed rather than pan fried or baked.

turkey meat balls

Ingredients:

  • 375 g of ground turkey
  • One small onion, chopped
  • One egg white
  • About 3/4 cups of green onions, chopped (optional)
  • Table spoon each of minced ginger and minced garlic
  • Pinch of black pepper
  • A little bit of soya sauce
  • About 1/4 cups of bread crumbs

Instructions:

Mix the ingredients together and form meatballs.  The above mixture should get you about eight to 10 golf sized portions.  Place the meatballs onto the steaming tray and steam over boiling water (or your steamoven’s meat settings) for about 20-25 minutes.  For our meal, the meatballs were served with noodles (rice and seaweed) and blanched broccoli along with a dipping sauce made with warmed up soy sauce and minced ginger.  This should serve about two or three adults as a meal.

Note: If you don’t have a steam oven or basket, the Internet suggests that you can place items on metal colander.

About Cynthia Cheng Mintz


Cynthia Cheng Mintz is the founder and webitor-in-chief of this site and the petite-focused site, Shorty Stories. She has also written for other publications including the Toronto Star and has blogged for The Huffington Post. Her first novel, Aspirations, was published in 2007. Outside of writing, Cynthia researches and advises philanthropic ideas for family funds and foundations and also volunteers.

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