Little saucy balls, aka my street name. Just kidding (maybe). These are some yummy teriyaki meatballs I made using ground turkey, ginger paste, garlic, and teriyaki sauce. You can make this into an easy dinner (under 30 minutes, woohoo) by making teriyaki bowls and pairing them with veggies of your choice and rice. Or double the recipe, and boom – you’ve got an easy appetizer to please a crowd.
Note: you can use either Teriyaki sauce or Teriyaki marinade for this recipe. Teriyaki sauce is typically thicker and a little sweeter than the marinade. I typically grocery shop at Trader Joe’s, and for the life of me I can’t find regular Teriyaki sauce (please, if you know where to find it HELP ME!) so I use Teriyaki marinade instead. If you’re using teriyaki marinade, I’ll show you how to make it into a teriyaki sauce using corn starch and brown sugar. If you grab regular teriyaki sauce from the store, you can skip those steps. Recipe makes 20 meatballs.
Ingredients
- For the Sauce - from a Teriyaki marinade
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 375. Remove the skin from your shallot and mince. Add ground turkey, egg, breadcrumbs, 1/4 cup teriyaki sauce or marinade, garlic, ginger, minced shallot, salt, and pepper into a bowl. Use your hands and mix until well combined.
- Roll turkey mixture into 20 meatballs, about 2 Tbsp of mixture per ball. They should be small enough to roll into the palm of your hand. Place each meatball onto a lightly greased baking sheet, about 2 inches apart.
- Place in oven and bake for 17 - 20 minutes. While meatballs are baking, warm your sauce. If you have regular teriyaki sauce, then just add it to a medium pot and heat over low on the stove. If you're using teriyaki marinade, follow the steps below Make sauce from the marinade
- Add the rest of the teriyaki marinade to a medium pot and heat over medium high heat, until simmering. In a small bowl, mix corn starch and cold water together until combined, it should look sort of like milk. Add the corn starch mixture to the simmering teriyaki marinade a little at a time, whisking constantly. Add 3 Tbsp of brown sugar and whisk to combine. Reduce heat to low and simmer.
- Remove the meatballs from the oven, and add to the pot with the sauce. Gently toss to coat meatballs in sauce. Top with a sprinkle of chives.