Sriracha Turkey Meatballs are tender meatballs coated in a sweet and spicy sriracha sauce and served over a cauliflower bean puree. These homemade meatballs are pure comfort food that makes an easy weeknight dinner with so much flavor!
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❤️ Why you'll love Sriracha Turkey Meatballs
Lower carb: these spicy meatballs skip the bread crumbs in the meatball and the swap of cauliflower rice and bean polenta makes a healthier version of grits.
Flavorful dish: sesame oil, sweet hoisin sauce, and sriracha enhances the delicious flavors and gives the meatballs a distinctive flavor profile.
Quick dinner: ready in just a little over 30 minutes, this meatball recipe lends well to meal prep and reheating for later in the week.
🥘 Meatball Ingredients
Lean ground turkey
Dark sesame oil
Sriracha sauce
Cauliflower florets
Cannellini beans
Garlic clove
Onion
White corn meal
Fresh cilantro
🔪 Instructions
For the Turkey Meatballs
- In a large bowl, mix together ground turkey and sesame oil until combined. Shape turkey mixture into 1" round meatballs.
- Heat a large skillet coated with cooking spray over medium heat. Cook for 5-7 minutes, until cooking spray until turkey is browned on all sides.
- Remove meatballs from skillet and place on a paper towel lined plate. Set aside.
- In a small bowl, using a hand whisk, mix water, ketchup, sriracha, hoisin sauce and Worcestershire sauce together until combined.
- Stir sauce mixture into skillet that meatballs were cooked in and bring to boil. Immediately turn heat to low and simmer for 3 minutes. Return meatballs to skillet and toss to coat with sauce. Simmer for 7-10 minutes longer
For the Cauliflower Puree
- Heat olive oil in large skillet over medium heat until hot.
- Add onion and garlic and saute 5 minutes, until onion has softened.
- Stir in chicken stock, mashed beans, cauliflower, milk, cornmeal and salt. Bring cauliflower mixture to boil, reduce heat to low and simmer 20 minutes or until cauliflower is tender.
- Serve meatballs and sauce over top of cauliflower puree. Garnish with fresh cilantro (if using).
🥄 Equipment
Large bowl
Small bowl
Large skillet
Hand whisk
Wooden spoon
🥫Storage
Refrigerate: store leftover meatballs in an airtight container up to 4 days.
Reheat: warm leftovers in a microwave safe dish
📖 Variations
Honey Sriracha Turkey Meatballs: add a ¼ cup honey to sauce mixture and sprinkle with a tablespoon of sesame seeds.
Carb swap: Serve over polenta, cheesy grits, or brown rice instead of the cauliflower bean puree.
Protein swap: use ground chicken or lean ground beef in place of ground turkey.
💭 Tips
Bake instead of frying: bake meatballs in the oven on a large baking sheet lined with parchment paper at 350 degrees for 20 minutes, until internal temperature reaches 165 degrees F.
Food processor: use a food processor to easily chop and cauliflower into fine pieces.
Boost of flavor: add a teaspoon of fresh ginger (grated) to the meatball recipe.
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🍽 Serve with..
Serve Sriracha Turkey Meatballs as a main dish served over mashed cauliflower and bean polenta with a green side salad.
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📖 Recipe
Sriracha Sesame Turkey Meatballs
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Ingredients
- 1¼ pound 97% lean ground turkey
- 2 tablespoons dark sesame oil
- cooking spray
- ½ cup water
- ¼ cup ketchup
- 2 tablespoons Sriracha
- 1½ tablespoons hoisin sauce
- 1½ teaspoons worcestershire sauce
- 2 cups chicken stock
- 2 cups finely chopped cauliflower florets
- 1 cup cannellini beans , mashed
- 1 clove garlic , minced
- ½ cup chopped onion
- ½ cup white corn meal
- ½ teaspoon salt
- 1 tablespoon olive oil
Instructions
For the Turkey Meatballs
- In a large bowl, mix together ground turkey and sesame oil until combined. Shape turkey mixture into 1" round meatballs.
- Heat a large skillet coated with cooking spray over medium heat. Cook for 5-7 minutes, until cooking spray until turkey is browned on all sides.
- Remove meatballs from skillet and place on a paper towel lined plate. Set aside.
- In a small bowl, using a hand whisk, mix water, ketchup, sriracha, hoisin sauce and Worcestershire sauce together until combined.
- Stir sauce mixture into skillet that meatballs were cooked in and bring to boil. Immediately turn heat to low and simmer for 3 minutes. Return meatballs to skillet and toss to coat with sauce. Simmer for 7-10 minutes longer
For the Cauliflower Puree
- Heat olive oil in large skillet over medium heat until hot.
- Add onion and garlic and saute 5 minutes, until onion has softened.
- Stir in chicken stock, mashed beans, cauliflower, milk, cornmeal and salt. Bring cauliflower mixture to boil, reduce heat to low and simmer 20 minutes or until cauliflower is tender.
- Serve meatballs and sauce over top of cauliflower puree. Garnish with fresh cilantro (if using).
Sue Lau says
Love the sound of the sauce with the sriracha and hoisin!
Wendy, A Day in the Life on the Farm says
Cooking Light is great and they offer up wonderful ideas on how to flavor with spice instead of fat as is evident in your lovely recipe.
Lauren @ Sew You Think You Can Cook says
Love that you've served them over a cauliflower puree. Looks incredible.
David @ Spiced says
So normally I would say I want my meatballs over spaghetti...but you had me at sriracha here. All of these delicious seasonings in these meatballs makes it totally acceptable to cut back and use turkey instead. We do the same thing when we make burrito fillings as you can't tell the difference once all the seasonings go in. Now I am craving meatballs for breakfast...what are you doing to me, Shelby?? 🙂
Tara says
Love these paired with the polenta!! It looks astouding!!
Hezzi-D says
Love these Asian inspired meatballs
Christine | Vermilion Roots says
Sriracha makes everything better, doesn't it? 😉
Ellen says
This dish looks amazing. Easy too.
Jolina says
Sriracha. Meatballs. Cauliflower Puree. I love this combination! My partner is not really into turkey BUT I think this will make her a fan 🙂
Shadi says
this dish looks so delicious and easy to make. I love meatballs but I don't like using ground beef therefore I think this is just perfect for us!
April says
Sounds and looks delicious! I love Sriracha but I've never had it this way. I also love the puree idea and it sounds interesting. I would be willing to try it out.
Tammi @Momma's Meals says
I LOVE this version of a meatball! I also love your addition of beans to the cauliflower puree! Brilliant.
Sarah E. says
I know this is supposed to be about the meatballs, but I cannot stop eyeing that cauliflower puree. It looks so good! I was just writing up a post yesterday that had cauliflower in it and saying how I don't have enough recipes with it. The whole family eats and loves it, we just don't have it often. Super glad to see it paired with something as delicious as meatballs!! Turkey is my second favorite thing to use for meatballs too!
Caroline | carolinescooking says
My husband is a big sriracha fan so sure he'd love these. The puree sounds really interesting too - very comforting!
Rebekah | Kitchen Gidget says
I love the idea of your puree instead of polenta! But I'm guessing those saucy bites taste great over anything!
Renee@Renee's Kitchen Adventures says
Aren't Cooking Light recipes the best? I'm always thinking, why didn't I think of that! haha This looks delicious and I love that it's still got flavor but is a little more figure friendly.