Sriracha Sesame Turkey Meatballs are coated in a slightly sweet and spicy sauce and served over a cauliflower bean puree. Pure comfort food with fewer calories!
Today the Sunday Supper Tastemakers are sharing all kinds of meatball recipes with you! Appetizers, soups, main dishes, and even dessert meatballs! You will be amazed at the flavors and variety and I'm excited to share with you Sriracha-Sesame Turkey Meatballs
I was pretty excited to find out our theme today was for meatballs as I had just come across this recipe for Sriracha-Sesame Turkey Meatballs served over polenta in a recent issue of Cooking Light. I found another recipe in the same Cooking Light issue for a cauliflower bean puree that really looked a lot like polenta to me and since we are not huge polenta eaters, I thought the cauliflower bean puree would be a great substitute!
The meatballs themselves are super easy. You just combine some sesame oil with the ground turkey and shape them into a ball. I cooked mine in a skillet but you could easily bake these instead.
Once the meatballs are cooked you remove them from the pan and stir in your sauce ingredients. Return the meatballs to the skillet and coat them with the sauce bringing them back up to a warm temperature.
While the Sriracha-Sesame Turkey Meatballs were in the works I started on the cauliflower puree. It was pretty simple, cauliflower that had been chopped fine (I used my food processor), some mashed white beans, chicken broth, and a little bit of white cornmeal. My delicious results are pictured below!
How do you like your meatballs? Do you like to eat them the traditional way with pasta sauce over spaghetti or would you be more adventurous and try this recipe for Sriracha-Sesame Turkey Meatballs out?
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- Cheesy Stuffed Pepperoni Pizza Meatballs from The Weekend Gourmet
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- Saucy Thai Meatballs from Brunch-n-Bites
- Slow Cooker Turkey Appetizer Jelly Meatballs from Noshing With The Nolands
- Stuffed Meatballs from The Freshman Cook
- Tofu Nuggets from NinjaBaker
- Turkey Meatballs with Spinach and Goat Cheese from Our Good Life
Meatball Soups:
- Russian Meatball Soup from A Kitchen Hoor’s Adventures
Main Dish Meatballs:
- All-Purpose Meatballs from Cosmopolitan Cornbread
- Bourbon Baked Bean Meatballs from Sew You Think You Can Cook
- General Tso’s Chicken Meatballs from Cupcakes & Kale Chips
- Grandma’s Italian Meatball Subs from Family Around The Table
- Hamballs from A Day in the Life on the Farm
- Kefta Mkaouara (Moroccan Meatballs Tagine) from Curious Cuisiniere
- Keftedakia (Greek-style Meatballs) from Tramplingrose
- Kofte-Style Lamb Meatballs in a Tomato-Pepper Sauce from Caroline’s Cooking
- Meatball Subs from That Skinny Chick Can Bake
- Moroccan Lamb Meatballs in Tomato Sauce from MyGourmetConnection
- Persian Lamb Meatballs from Food Lust People Love
- Slow Cooker Meatball Stew from Seduction in the Kitchen
Meatball Desserts:
- Brownie Meatballs with Frosting Spaghetti from Pies and Plots
Sriracha Sesame Turkey Meatballs
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Ingredients
- 1-¼ lb 97% lean ground turkey
- 2 tablespoons dark sesame oil
- cooking spray
- ½ cup water
- ¼ cup ketchup
- 2 tablespoons Sriracha
- 1-½ tablespoons hoisin sauce
- 1-½ teaspoons worcestershire sauce
- 2 cups chicken stock
- 2 cups finely chopped cauliflower florets
- 1 cup cannellini beans mashed
- 1 garlic clove minced
- ½ cup chopped onion
- ½ cup white corn meal
- ½ teaspoon salt
- 1 tablespoon olive oil
Instructions
- Mix ground turkey and dark sesame oil together to combine. Shape turkey into 1" round meatballs. Cook over medium heat in skillet coated with cooking spray until turkey is browned on all sides. Remove from pan.
- Mix water, ketchup, sriracha, hoisin and worcestershire sauce together until combined. Stir into skillet that meatballs were cooked in and bring to a low simmer. Simmer for 5 minutes. Return meatballs to skillet and coat with sauce.
- To prepare cauliflower puree, heat olive oil in large skillet. Saute onion and garlic for about 5 minutes. Add chicken stock, mashed beans, cauliflower, milk, cornmeal and salt. Bring to a simmer. Reduce heat and simmer 20 minutes or until cauliflower is tender.
- Serve meatballs with sauce over cauliflower puree.
Sue Lau
Love the sound of the sauce with the sriracha and hoisin!
Wendy, A Day in the Life on the Farm
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
Love that you've served them over a cauliflower puree. Looks incredible.
David @ Spiced
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
Love these paired with the polenta!! It looks astouding!!
Hezzi-D
Love these Asian inspired meatballs
Christine | Vermilion Roots
Sriracha makes everything better, doesn't it? 😉
Ellen
This dish looks amazing. Easy too.
Jolina
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
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
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
I LOVE this version of a meatball! I also love your addition of beans to the cauliflower puree! Brilliant.
Sarah E.
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
My husband is a big sriracha fan so sure he'd love these. The puree sounds really interesting too - very comforting!
Rebekah | Kitchen Gidget
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
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.