Homemade Turkey Meat Balls in Marinara Sauce

Here's one of B's recipes that I helped him make last week- I was on meatball duty :P
It's a simple marinara sauce with delicious turkey meat balls. We make a big batch, eat it for a few days and freeze some for busy exam times. 

Here's the recipe: 

Turkey meat balls (for ~35 balls)

-3 lbs of ground turkey 

-2 eggs

-1 cup cooked oats (quick oats, or grind up whole oats a bit) 

-1 teaspoon cayenne pepper 

-1 teaspoon chilli peppers 

-fresh basil 

-3 teaspoon dried basil

-2 teaspoon dried oregano 

- salt and pepper 

Marinara sauce: 

- 4 medium onions finely chopped

-1 and a half bulbs of garlic 

-4 cans of crushed tomatoes (blend into a puree)

-8-10 mushrooms really finely chopped

-dried basil and oregano to taste

- salt and pepper to taste

-hot peppers of your choice - we used dried ghost peppers!

-olive oil 

Directions: 

Turkey meat balls: in a bowl (or mixer if you have one) combine all ingredients and mix until well combined. Form equally sized balls (the turkey is quite sticky so have a pan or plate ready). Brown the meat balls in a sauce with some olive oil ( you don't need to cook them through, this is just to crisp them up on the outside so they don't fall apart in the sauce. 

Marinara sauce: sweat onion and garlic in some olive oil, add pureed tomatoes, spices, mushrooms and meat balls and simmer over low heat for 1-2 hours. 

You can serve the sauce traditionally with spaghetti noodles, or try it with rice noodles! It was delicious! 

^^ these balls are ready to be fried ^^ 

^^ It was great over rice noodles ^^