I am back on the blogging bandwagon and with a vengeance! My husband loves Greek food – by love I mean asks for it every single time we go out somewhere. I am fine with it but never found a good healthy place. These turkey meatballs are great because they have zucchini and onion in them so kids (and husbands) are non the wiser!I also loved the naan so much I decided to make some pita bread. The blog I get the bread recipe from is amazing and I also got her pita bread from there – I am not even going to attempt to pretend that I know how to make bread so here is the pita. To go with the pita I made some hummus and tzatziki! Here we go:

Hummus:

1 can of chickpeas rinsed
1/4c tahini
1/4c lemon juice
1t cumin
1 clove of garlic
1T olive oil

Blend everything in a food processor and add a little bit of water if the mixture needs some help moving along. Let it sit in the fridge until you are ready for it.

Tzatziki:

1c Greek yogurt
1 clove of garlic crushed
1t lemon juice
1/2 cucumber peeled, seeded and grated – make sure to squeeze any moisture out
1T dill
1T chives

Mix everything together and let it sit in the fridge for at least an hour so that the flavors can mix.

all the accoutrements!!

Turkey Meatballs:

1 1/4c ground turkey
1 egg
1/4-1/2 red onion grated and moisture squeezed out
1 zucchini peeled and grated and moisture removed
1/4c panko
2-3 garlic cloves minced
2T oregano
2T parsley
2T mint

Mix all of the ingredients together and roll them into small balls (I used an ice cream scoop) and put them on a cookie sheet and refrigerate for an hour or so so that they can keep their shape.

fridge time

Once you are ready to cook, you can either grill them or cook them on the stove –  I used our grill pan on the stove.

getting all yummy

Once everything is cooked and nice and brown you can begin assembling. We made ours with hummus, spinach, tomato, red onion slices, 2 turkey balls and tzatziki in the pita.

The final tasty product!

We loved this recipe because you could make components ahead of time so really all I had to do come dinner time was cook the meatballs. Plus you can’t really argue with the price of this meal: $15.50 and with a total of 6 servings of 2 meatballs each serving comes out to $2.58 each. Not too shabby!

Now on to the nutrition – we broke it down to a serving being 1 pita, 2 meatballs, 2T each of hummus and tzatziki and as much spinach and tomatoes as you want. This comes to a total of 340 calories, 7.6g of fat and 22.2g of protein. Boy howdy does that make me happy! Cheap and super healthy! I hope you love this as much as I do!