Honey Chipotle Turkey Meatballs

I absolutely love making meatballs for dinner. There are so many different ways to make them. You can use ground turkey, ground pork, ground chicken, or ground beef. I love the limitless ways you can prepare them and could never imagine just buying the frozen kind that are already prepared. We eat meatballs fairly regularly in our house. Some of our favorites are buffalo chicken meatballs, teriyaki meatballs, italian meatballs, and now these honey chipotle meatballs are up high on the list as well.  The original recipe calls for the use of ground turkey but I had organic, grassfed ground beef thawed out and we loved them as beef meatballs.  Don't be fooled by the word chipotle in the title, these can be made as spicy or as mild as you prefer.

We served these meatballs with some fresh steamed broccoli and cauliflower and some homemade wheat Irish Soda bread.

Honey Chipotle Turkey Meatballs
Serves: 4
Adapted by: http://traceysculinaryadventures.blogspot.com/2012/03/honey-chipotle-turkey-meatballs.html

Ingredients
1 pound ground turkey breast or lean ground beef
1/2 yellow onion, diced finely
2 cloves of garlic, minced
1/4 teaspoon lite salt
1/4 to 1/2 teaspoon black pepper
3 tablespoons pure honey
2 to 4 chopped chipotle chiles in adobo sauce (depending on how spicy you want to make this recipe) - I used 3 chipotle peppers and some of the sauce they were in and it had a little kick
4 teaspoons apple cider vinegar
1 tablespoon extra virgin olive oil

Directions
-Preheat oven to 375 degrees.
-In a mixing bowl, combine the onion, garlic, salt, pepper and ground meat. Use your hands to mix the ingredients together. Form meat mixture into 10 to 12 meatballs. They should be about the size of a golfball.
-In a small mixing bowl, combine the honey, chiles, and vinegar. Set aside.
-Set a large nonstick, ovenproof skillet on the stove and add the oil. Heat pan over medium to medium high heat.
-Add the meatballs to the hot skillet and cook until all the meatballs are browned on all sides, which takes about 10 minutes.
-Move the skillet to the oven and cook the meatballs for 10 minutes. Remove meatballs from the oven and pour the reserved sauce over all of the meatballs and then return to the oven for an additional 5 to 10 minutes, or until they are cooked completely.
-Remove from the oven and serve immediately

Enjoy! :)