These easy paleo meatballs mix ground turkey with a simple homemade teriyaki sauce, and are full of great flavor. Serve the baked meatballs with cauliflower rice and veggies for an easy meal, or add them to your weekend meal prep plan, and keep them in the freezer for future meals!
And if you love meatballs, make sure to also check out more of our meatball recipes. Meatballs and meal prep are our expertise!
Our oven baked pizza meatballs and buffalo chicken meatballs are a couple of our favorites! And our paleo Asian-inspired meatballs noodle bowl is another must try.
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Teriyaki Flavor Without Refined Sugar
Growing up with my mom’s family being from Hawaii, we ate a fair amount of teriyaki chicken and steak. Lots of teriyaki and lots of rice, usually with some salad. That was dinner a lot of nights.
While it was tasty, you have to admit that store bought teriyaki sauce and even my mom’s homemade version packs quite a bit of sugar.
We use coconut aminos, maple syrup, garlic, ginger and lemon juice to make a tangy, sweet and savory sauce you’ll love!
Can’t find coconut aminos or don’t want to spend the money? No worries. Check out our DIY coconut aminos substitute!
Meatballs for Meal Prep
These teriyaki turkey meatballs are the perfect make ahead food. They will last in the fridge for about a week, or you can freeze them for longer. They take 25 minutes to prep and get in the oven, and you’ll have about 25 meatballs on hand once they are finished cooking.
You can check out all of our favorite meal prep recipes for more inspiration, too!
Is Teriyaki Keto Friendly?
Unfortunately, no. Since we use maple syrup to naturally sweeten the sauce, these meatballs are not low carb. If you’re looking for keto recipes, we have lots! Check them out for more suitable options.
What to Serve with Teriyaki Turkey Meatballs
The best part is that they are a great little snack and also work well with many variations.
- On top of a salad
- In a soup like our easy ramen recipe – just swap out the pork for these meatballs
- Over some greens and cauliflower rice
- In a bowl of zoodles
Your Turn To Make Our Teriyaki Turkey Meatballs
Get your meal prep on, and make these teriyaki turkey meatballs. The whole family will love them! Let us know how it goes by leaving a comment below.
Also, take a photo and tag us on Instagram @realsimplegood, so we can check it out. We love to see what you’re cooking!
Teriyaki Turkey Meatballs (Paleo + GF)
Ingredients
- 2 lbs ground turkey
- 1/2 cup green onions, diced finely
For the sauce:
- 3/4 cup coconut aminos
- 1/4 cup maple syrup
- 2 tablespoons lemon juice, about 1 lemon
- 2 cloves garlic, minced
- 2 teaspoons fresh ginger, grated on a microplane
- 1/2 teaspoon hot sauce or ¼ teaspoon cayenne pepper, more or less to taste as desired
- 1/2 teaspoon cassava or arrowroot flour
Optional toppings:
- Green onion, diced
- Sesame seeds
Equipment
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 400 degrees fahrenheit and line a large baking pan with parchment paper or foil.
- Place ground turkey and green onions in a large bowl.
- In a separate small bowl, make teriyaki sauce by combining coconut aminos, maple syrup, lemon juice, garlic, ginger and hot sauce in a small bowl. Stir with a whisk until everything is evenly blended.
- Pour half of the teriyaki sauce into the bowl with the turkey and onions. Mix everything together well with your hands until the sauce and onions are mixed evenly in the turkey.
- Now, form the turkey into small balls about the size of a heaping tablespoon. You can use a small ice cream scoop if you have one, it makes it easy to form the turkey into balls without everything sticking to your hands. This should yield about 25 of meatballs.
- Place in the oven to cook for 20 minutes.
- When the meatballs have about 7 minutes left, pour the remaining teriyaki sauce in a small sauce pan and add in 1/2 tsp of cassava or arrowroot flour. Simmer for 4-5 minutes, stirring frequently until the sauce is slightly thickened.
- Remove meatballs from the oven and transfer to a mixing bowl. Drizzle with warm sauce and toss to combine. Top with sesame seeds and green onion if desired and serve.
My girlfriend liked it so much she wants to take some home for her family to try. I didn’t make enough Zoodles to go with it though. Need to remember about one large zucchini per pound of turkey is a good amount.
We always love when people want to share our recipes with their family, it’s the ultimate compliment!
Do you know the macros for these?
Hi there, we don’t track the nutritional info on all of our recipes. We’ve found since moving to a real food lifestyle that we don’t have to track and it’s liberating to not be tied to numbers. If you need the info you could use an online calculator like My Fitness Pal.
My boys rated it a 5!
We love hearing that! Thanks for giving our recipe a try! And thanks for coming back to leave a review. 🙂
Tasty
Glad you enjoyed the recipe Terry! Thanks for coming back to leave a rating, we appreciate it 🙂
So good and family approved. My 3 year old loved them! My meatball mix was a little liquidy so I added an egg. Not sure if that did anything. also added fish sauce to the sauce for a little umami. didn’t have ginger so I used a little cinnamon. I used an ice cream scoop to scoop out the mix but didn’t roll into balls (which was actually easier) they looked more like little flat sausages but they still turned out so good!
So glad you enjoyed them and were able to make it work with what you had on hand! We love it when our recipes end up being family approved! Thanks so much for coming back to share! 🙂