These Spanakopita Meatballs are made with ground turkey, fresh spinach, dill, green onions, and feta cheese. The best part is the lemon butter! It’s mixed into the meatballs and also drizzled on top before baking. These come out incredibly moist and are so flavorful, and incredibly easy to make.
Finally, two of my food obsessions – meatballs and spanakopita – have come together to form the ultimate deliciousness. Spanakopita meatballs are everything you love about spanakopita in meatball form!
These spinach and feta meatballs are made with lean ground turkey, which can often dry out. Not these. They’re perfectly moist for two reasons:
The first, we’re using a lemon butter sauce both inside AND outside the meatballs to add lots of flavor and moisture. This is something I do when I make baked keftedes, too.
The second, we’re baking the meatballs and making them large-ish in size, like dinner meatballs, so they don’t overcook easily.
Another thing I love about this recipe – you don’t have to precook anything, even the spinach! Just add chopped raw fresh spinach in the mix. You may think it’s not going to work but it will – trust me.