Italian Meatballs- From the FIXATE Cookbook

Hello and happy Saturday!! As I am getting dinner ready, I decided to share my meal with you all! What’s really cool about this is I FINALLY dug into my new FIXATE cookbook by Autumn Calabrese, the creator of the amazing fitness program 21 DAY FIX! I took her recipe, and did a tiny bit of tweaking to it and am so happy to share it with you because I just tried it and its AMAZE-BALLS!! Literally lol!! 

Hope you enjoy!! If you give it a try, be sure you post how you liked in the comments below!! :)

Italian Meatballs 

Ingredients: 5 servings

• Non-stick cooking spray
• 1/3 cup whole wheat bread crumbs
• 1/8 cup reduced fat milk or almond milk
• 1/4 cup mozzarella cheese shredded
• 1 tsp olive oil
• 1 medium onion
• 2 cloves garlic, finely chopped
• 1 lb 93% lean ground turkey meat
• 1 large egg
• 1/8 cup finely chopped Italian parsley
• 1/2 tsp dried oregano leaves
• 1/2 tsp Himalayan salt
• 1/2 tsp black pepper ground
• 2 cups Tomato sauce (I use organic and low sodium) (Not from FIXATE cookbook)

Directions:

1 Preheat oven to 425 F.

2 Line large baking sheet with parchment paper lightly coated with non stick pray

3 Place bread crumbs and milk in a small bowl. Set aside for 10 minutes

4 Heat oil in medium skillet over medium low heat

5 Add onion. Cook, stirring frequently, for 5-6 minutes or until onion is translucent.

6 Add garlic; cook, stirring frequently for 1 minute.

7 Combine onion mixture, turkey, eggs, parsley, cheese, oregano, salt, pepper, abound bread crumb mixture in large bowl; mix well with clean hands or wooden spoon. Refrigerate, cover, for 1 hour. 

8 With clean wet hands, from turkey mixture into approximately 21 1 inch meatballs; arrange onto prepared baking sheet.

9 Bake for 13-18 minutes, or until browned and cooked through.

10 Serve topped with Organic tomato sauce.

Breakdown for the 21 DAY FIX:

1 RED

1 BLUE

1 GREEN

1 YELLOW (used with 1 cup cooked whole wheat pasta)

Today's dinner was a HIT for my boys!! Chase and Weston are 4 and 3 and love mommas healthy cookin'! :)

Dinner at the picnic table! 

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