Description
This recipe is from Slimming World’s Free Food Feasts recipe book (with permission)- very tasty!
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Ingredients
Scale
- low calorie cooking spray
- 800 g lean turkey mince (5% fat or less)
- 2 tsp dried thyme
- 1 tsp dried chilli flakes
- small handful chopped fresh parsley
- For the Creole sauce:
- 4 garlic cloves (crushed)
- 1 onion (thinly sliced)
- 6 celery sticks (finely chopped)
- 3 peppers (deseeded and roughly chopped)
- 2 x 400g can chopped tomatoes
- 2 tbsp tomato puree
- 1 bay leaf
- 1 tbsp Cajun seasoning
- salt and freshly ground black pepper
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 180c
- Put all of the sauce ingredients into a saucepan and bring to the boil over a high heat. Reduce the heat to low, season to taste and simmer for 15-20 minutes
- Meanwhile, spray a large ovenproof dish with low calorie cooking spray
- Put the turkey, thyme and chilli in a large mixing bowl and season. Using your fingers, mix well and roll into walnut-sized meatballs. Arrange the meatballs in a single layer in the ovenproof dish. Spray with low calorie cooking spray and cook in the oven for 10-12 minutes
- Pour the tomato sauce over the meatballs to cover them evenly, then return the meatballs to the oven and cook for 15-20 minutes until the meatballs are cooked through.
- Scatter over the parsley and serve with extra Speed vegetables
Notes
I served mine with both cauliflower rice and brown rice. If you can’t get hold of turkey mince you can either use pork mince (as I did), or you can whizz up chicken thigh fillets in the food processor to make your own mince.
- Prep Time: 15 minutes
- Cook Time: 45 minutes