Thanksgiving Dinner Turkey Meatballs

Total Time: 35 mins Preparation Time: 15 mins Cook Time: 20 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 4
• 1 1/3 lbs ground turkey breast
• 1 egg
• 6 slices bread (day old, divided)
• 1/2 cup milk
• 1 teaspoon olive oil
• 1/2 cup celery (finely diced)
• 2 teaspoons parsley (dried or fresh)
• 1/4 teaspoon thyme (dried or fresh)
• 1 1/2 teaspoons poultry seasoning
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 1 teaspoon pepper ( or black)
• 1 teaspoon olive oil
• 2 tablespoons shallots, chopped
• 1/2 lb mushroom, sliced
• 1 (14 1/2 ounce) can low fat reduced-sodium cream of mushroom soup
• 1/4 cup water

Recipe

• 1 place ground turkey in a bowl.
• 2 in a separate small bowl, take 3 slices of bread and soak in milk until soft, wring out some of the milk and pulverize over the ground turkey.
• 3 cut the other 3 slices of bread into a small cube (reserve to add last).
• 4 sauté the celery in olive oil, remove the celery from the oil and add to the turkey with the next 5 ingredients (leave oil in the pan to fry meatballs).
• 5 mix thoroughly (do not overmix).
• 6 fold in the cubed bread.
• 7 wet your hands and roll balls approximately the size of golf balls.
• 8 cook on med-low heat until nicely browned on all sides, transfer to plate to keep warm.
• 9 for the sauce and to finish:.
• 10 turn heat up on pan to medium, add additional olive oil to pan. when hot, add mushrooms and shallots.
• 11 sauté until mushrooms begin to give up their liquids.
• 12 stir in cream of mushroom soup and water until incorporated.
• 13 return meatballs to sauce to heat through and/or finish cooking.