Cranberry orange marmalade meatballs are sweet tangy and full of juiciness. These meatballs taste delightful over a bed of white rice and fill that hungry tummy of yours right up. Follow the steps below and you can enjoy this dish too.
Step # 1 Making the Meatballs
Ingredients for Turkey Meatballs
Instruction
Place the ground turkey burger into a mixing bowl. Crack the egg into it as well. Add in the crumbled up white bread and spices. Mix ingredients together using a mixing machine or with your hands well until you get meatball dough.
Grease a deep casserole dish with butter and begin making good-sized meatballs with your hands. Make sure all the meatballs are even in size. Place them into the casserole dish two inches apart. You should get about 12 meatballs per pound of ground turkey burger.
Place a sheet of aluminum foil over the top of the casserole dish to help keep the moisture in so the meatballs stay tender and poke holes through the top so the steam can escape a bit. Bake the meatballs at 350-degrees for 30-minutes. After, remove them from the oven and set them aside. It is time for the next step.
Step #2 Making the Cranberry Marmalade Glaze
Ingredients for Glaze
1 Can of Cranberry Sauce without Whole Cranberries
1 Can of Cranberry Sauce with Whole Cranberries
1 Cup of Orange Marmalade
1 Cup of Pineapple Juice
2 Cups of Chicken Broth
3 Tablespoons of Flour
3 Tablespoons of Butter
Instructions
Place all the ingredients into a medium sized saucepan and turn the stove burner on medium heat. Allow the cranberry sauces and marmalade to melt down into the broth. You will need to use a whisk and stir the ingredients together to help the cranberry sauce; marmalade and flour dissolve into the broth evenly. You will want to keep stirring the glaze with the whisk until you get a deep pinkish colored glaze with cranberry and orange marmalade bits throughout. As you cook the glaze, it should begin to thicken. As soon as it does remove, it from the stove and it will be ready to pour over the meatballs. You may adjust the ingredients, as you desire. You may also add in a pinch of cinnamon, nutmeg, allspice and salt to help add more flavors, but that is totally up to you. Be creative.
Step #3 Glazing the Meatballs
Take the aluminum foil off the meatballs and pour the glaze you just made over them. Then, pop the meatballs into a 350-degree oven for 15-minutes to help the meatballs soak in some of the flavor from the glaze. After, serve the dish up over a bed of white rice. You choose what kind of white rice you so desire. I prefer using the Minute Rice.
