Low Calorie Meatball Recipe How To Make In 20 Minutes

Low calorie meatball recipe, a traditional dish from the Gaziantep region, is a delicious and very healthy snack that you may never have heard of, and can also be a nice change as a vegan meal.The only difference between the tomato meatballs and the lentil meatballs is that the main ingredient is tomatoes instead of lentils, and the meatballs in our low calorie meatball recipe are kneaded by hand on a serrated tray.

You can also check out my low calorie recipes that might be of interest to you.

1. Oatmeal Smoothie Bowl
2. Cauliflower Mac and Cheese
3. Roasted Broccoli

Don’t be put off by kneading by hand, you won’t be kneading for hours.Such meatballs, like raw meatballs, are usually kneaded by hand, no machine is used.Maybe that’s why they are so delicious.When you’re ready, let’s move on to making tomato meatballs, our low calorie meatball recipe.

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Low Calorie Meatball Recipe How To Make In 4 Steps

Recipe by HonourCourse: AppetizersCuisine: TurkishDifficulty: Easy

Servings

4

servings

Prep time

20

minutes

Cooking timeminutes

Calories (100 grams)

123

kcal

Ingredients

• 1 kg. tomatoes

• 1 red capia pepper

• 1 green pepper

• 1 medium onion

• 6 garlic cloves

• 1 teaspoon tomato paste

• 1 teaspoon chili paste

• 2 fingers missing olive oil from 1 glass of water

• 3 cups of fine bulgur

• 1/2 bunch of parsley

• Salt

• Cumin

• Black pepper

Directions

• We cut the tomatoes and peppers in the normal cooking way and add a little salt in a deep window and cook on low heat.
• After the tomatoes and peppers are cooked, add tomato paste and spices.
• Then add the fine bulgur and cook it for 1 minute and then turn off the heat.
• Add the finely chopped garlic on top, close the lid of the pot and let it rest for 10 minutes.
• On the other side, chop the onions and fry them in olive oil until they turn pink.
• Put the rested meatballs on a large tray and knead by hand for 5 minutes, then put the fried onions with the oil on top and knead like this for 5 minutes.
• You can add the last parsley and serve.

Low Calorie Meatball Recipe Features

The peculiarity of the low calorie meatball recipe is that it is prepared with tomatoes and not with minced meat as we know it. Here we use tomatoes instead of minced meat and we use a dough grooved by hand. It is a local recipe that I gave ,it is really low in calories.

I respect vegans very much so I try to give recipes for them. This is a very healthy and delicious meal for those who are looking healthy meatballs for weight loss in this local recipe that I gave. Please don’t forget to add this to your menu. It seems very difficult but it is really easy and you will agree when you try it.

Low Calorie Meatballs Recipe For Diet

As the name suggests, tomato meatballs, which are a low calorie meatball recipe, are an appetizer that dieters can include in their menu. 100 grams of this dish has 123 calories.

This dish is rich in vitamin C, iron and vitamin A. Based on a 2000 calorie diet, one serving provides 48.0% of the daily requirement of vitamin C, 19.4% of the daily requirement of iron and 17.7% of the daily requirement of vitamin A.
There is no harm in eating this dish if you are on a lacto-vegetarian, lacto-vegetarian or semi-vegetarian diet.

How To Store Tomatoes, The Main Element Of This Dish?

Since the low calorie meatball recipe is made with tomatoes, I’d like to share with you a few ways to store tomatoes harvested in the summer in the refrigerator to eat in the winter.If you are wondering how to store grape leaves and spinach you can find my related articles here.

The most practical way to store fresh tomatoes in the freezer is, of course, to store them whole. To do this, you need to wash the tomatoes and dry them well. Then cut out the green part on the stem with a knife or a carving machine and distribute it in freezer bags or ziplock bags.

When We Do Not Have The Knurled Tray

Low calorie meatball recipe, in productions like tomato meatballs, raw meatballs and so on, the fluted tray cooks the food faster because of the rubbing effect of the bulgur.But if we don’t have a fluted tray at home, we can knead on a flat tray as well. The only difference is that we knead a little longer.The bottom of the fluted tray, that is, the bottom surface, is fluted so that materials such as Çiğköfte, lentil meatballs can adhere to each other better.

I have explained the recipe for local tomato meatballs to you in detail.Ask your questions or queries in the comments. Stay healthy until the next recipe.

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