Elimination Meatballs with Zucchini

Get some vegetables in your clean-eating diet with these zucchini, yellow squash, and ground turkey meatballs.

• Preparation Time: 15 mins
• Cooking Time: 60 mins
• Total Time: 1 hr 15 mins
• Calories: 273 Calories

Ingredients

• 1 pound ground turkey
• black pepper to taste
• 1 large sweet potato, peeled and diced
• 0.5 medium zucchini, shredded
• 0.5 medium yellow squash, shredded

Recipe Instructions

Step 1

Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C).

Step 2

Place sweet potatoes into a large pot and cover with salted water; bring to a boil. Reduce heat to medium-low and simmer until tender, about 20 minutes. Drain. Mash sweet potatoes with a fork in a large bowl; set aside to cool.

Step 3

Mix zucchini and yellow squash into the bowl with the sweet potatoes. Add turkey and black pepper. Form mixture into 1-inch balls and place in a 9x13-inch baking dish.

Step 4

Bake in the preheated oven until meatballs are no longer pink in the center, 35 to 40 minutes.