New Turkey & Rice Meatballs (Albondigas) – Perfect For Spanish Thanksgiving

Making delicious meatballs amongst fatty, flavorful beef is no swell feat, but creating something every bit delectable using the world turkey is around other story. As the erstwhile joke goes, it may live on bland, but at to the lowest degree it’s dry. So, you’re going to quest a real specialized strategy, in addition to past times “specialized strategy,” I hateful around cold, leftover rice.

As these simmer inward your sauce or soup, the grains of rice absorb moisture, swell up, in addition to utilization a relatively tender, moist meatball. Above in addition to beyond that, you’ll every bit good desire to await for the world turkey thigh meat (available at most of your higher-priced grocery chains).

By the way, similar all meatball/meatloaf recipes, yous tin exam your seasoning past times cooking a modest slice of the mixture earlier rolling your ball. Even though the meat hasn’t simmered inward the sauce yet, at to the lowest degree yous tin meet if it needs to a greater extent than salt. I’ll only modest fry upwardly a picayune patty, in addition to conform if quest be, in addition to advise yous utilization the same.

I didn’t intend this recipe to live on a Thanksgiving dinner alternative, but straightaway that I retrieve near it, these could genuinely work. Maybe yous convey a modest group, or don’t similar looking at a giant carcass on the tabular array (hey, around people are weird similar that), or your in-laws are Spanish, in addition to yous desire to present them yous tin pronounce “albondigas.”  Whatever the occasion, I promise yous hand these a endeavor soon. Enjoy!


Ingredients for near 20-24 modest meatballs:
1 pound the world turkey thigh meat
1 packed loving cup cooked white long grain rice
3 cloves crushed garlic 
1/4 loving cup chopped Italian parsley
1 large egg
2 teaspoons kosher salt
1/2 teaspoon freshly the world dark pepper
1 teaspoon smoked paprika
1 teaspoon the world cumin
1/8 teaspoon cayenne
1/4 teaspoon dried oregano
1 tablespoon olive petroleum

For the sauce (I didn’t stair out these ingredients, in addition to hence these are only guesses)
2 1/2 cups prepared love apple tree sauce
1 loving cup chicken broth, summation to a greater extent than every bit needed
1 teaspoon paprika
1/3 loving cup crème fraiche or heavy cream
1 tablespoon sherry vinegar
2 tbsp chopped Italian parsley
salt in addition to pepper to gustatory modality
Buat lebih berguna, kongsi:
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