Surprise Meatballs - cooking recipe

Ingredients
    1/2 lb. ground chicken/turkey
    6 oz. cottage cheese
    1 oz. Mozzarella cheese
    1/2 c. chopped onion
    1 egg white
    10 oz. frozen spinach, thawed and drained
    1 c. rolled oats
    1/4 tsp. pepper
    1/4 tsp. garlic powder
    8 oz. soup stock (liquid)
    4 oz. tomato puree + 1 Tbsp. water
    2 Tbsp. flour
    2 oz. cooking sherry
    1 lb. cooked brown rice
Preparation
    Heat oven to 450\u00b0.
    Mix together meat, cheeses, onion, egg replacer or egg white, oats and seasonings.
    Form into 18 meatballs.
    Place in a nonstick roasting tin and cook 20 minutes. Mix stock, tomato puree, sherry and corn flour.
    Simmer until thickened.
    Drain excess fat from meat and pour tomato sauce over. Reset the temperature to 350\u00b0 and cook for 30 minutes.
    Serve with hot rice.
    Makes 48 meatballs; each contains 31 calories, 0.5 g fat, 4 mg chol, 41 mg sodium.

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