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Italian Meatballs with Smoky Tomato Sauce

I’m not really a big meat-eating person but I do love a turkey burger or turkey meatballs sometimes. These Italian Meatballs with Smoky Tomato Sauce not only have ground turkey but they also have turkey sausage to add a little flavor. Mixed with egg, garlic, and parmesan cheese, these meatballs can be made quickly and include one of my favorite spices – smoked paprika! Personally, I would have preferred if there was a little more sausage in the mix but overall, I thought these meatballs were very tasty. The tomato sauce also has smoked paprika and was a hearty, albeit garlicky, sauce. I cut this recipe in half because I wasn’t looking to feed an army here and I still didn’t put in as much garlic as the recipe calls for. These meatballs would make great appetizers for your next get-together – or maybe a nice topping to some whole wheat pasta!

The meatball ingredients:

In a bowl, mix together egg, garlic, bread crumbs, cheese, salt, and pepper.

Add in ground turkey and sweet turkey sausage. Mix until just combined.

Roll mixture into balls and lay on a baking sheet. Combine olive oil and smoked paprika and brush on each meatball. Bake at 400°F for 25 minutes.

The sauce ingredients:

In a large saucepan, heat onion, garlic, basil, and oregano in olive oil until onion is tender.

Add crushed tomatoes, tomato paste, smoked paprika, salt and pepper. Bring to a boil and reduce heat. Cover and allow sauce to simmer for 20 minutes.

Top meatballs with sauce or serve it on the side. Add more grated parmesan if you desire.

Additions: None

Omissions: None

Substitutions: None

Overall Rating: Like It

Source: Better Homes & Gardens Magazine

Jalapeño, Sausage, Jack, and Egg Breakfast Braid

December 7, 2011
Shannon
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bread, cheese, eggs, food, turkey sausage

Maybe you don’t like breakfast food and if not, too bad for you. I’m going to cut right to the chase here – this Jalapeño, Sausage, Jack, and Egg Breakfast Braid is divine. This delicious little package has eggs, cheese, turkey sausage, jalapeños and is full of flavor. The recipe calls for chicken sausage with jalapeño peppers but I used hot turkey sausage instead. The sausage combined with the peppers doesn’t overpower this dish at all but instead gives it just enough of a kick to keep eating another bite, and then another. If you want to keep things a little more mild, you could use sweet turkey sausage here (or pork if you prefer). I made this in June when my sister and 2-year-old niece were visiting and since I wasn’t sure if my niece would like the spiciness, I left out the jalapeños and used sweet turkey sausage. It was just as delicious then but I really loved the fresh jalapeño pepper this time around. This is a perfect breakfast to make for Christmas morning, in my opinion. Go ahead and cut yourself a piece of this and see if you can keep from cutting another one. It’s pretty much impossible.

The ingredients:

Cook onion and sausage in a skillet with the olive oil until sausage is fully cooked.

Add in slightly beaten eggs and cook until set.

Unroll the pizza dough and shape into a rectangle on a baking sheet. Sprinkle cheese down the middle of the dough, leaving 2 inches on the sides. Top the cheese with the egg and sausage mixture, remaining cheese, and chopped jalapeño.

Using a sharp knife, cut slits into the sides of the dough, about an inch apart. Fold dough strips over the mixture diagonally, overlapping strips to look like a braid.

Brush dough with egg white.

Bake at 425°F for 15 minutes or until golden brown.

Additions: None

Omissions: None

Substitutions:

Hot turkey sausage for chicken sausage
Reduced-fat Colby-Jack cheese for Monterey Jack and cheddar cheeses

Overall Rating: Love It

Source: Cooking Light Magazine

White Bean Soup with Kale and Hot Turkey Sausage

When the weather starts to get colder outside, sometimes nothing else will do but a warm bowl of soup. This White Bean Soup with Kale and Hot Turkey Sausage is hearty, warm, and spicy – just the way I like it. The original recipe calls for Spanish chorizo but I couldn’t find chicken chorizo in my store (bummer) so I substituted hot turkey sausage. I cooked the sausage first before beginning and this soup came together pretty quickly. It wasn’t until I was almost finished making this soup that I realized it’s nearly identical to the Kale, Bean, and Sausage Soup with Parmesan Cheese I made last month. Since I devoured that soup and discovered I love kale, I knew this soup wouldn’t last long either.

The ingredients:

Sauté onion and garlic in a pan and cook until soft. Add in chopped sausage. (If using chorizo, add chorizo to the pan first and cook for a minute before adding onion and garlic.)