These Honey Sriracha Glazed Meatballs are sweet, spicy and full of so much flavor! They also take less than 30 minutes to make and are perfect for weekly meal prep!
These honey sriracha turkey meatballs have been a favorite for many years, and for GOOD reason! Flavorful turkey meatballs coated in the most delicious sweet and spicy sauce. The perfect balance of sriracha, soy sauce, ginger, honey and garlic. So. dang. good. Sriracha is such a staple in our home (I pour that stuff on everything!) and I love making sauces with it because sriracha adds such a great kick of heat without being TOO hot. These spicy honey sriracha meatballs are always a huge hit.
Why You’ll Love These Meatballs
- This basic turkey meatball recipe is my go-to and is a great one to bookmark or pin it for later on Pinterest.
- The spicy honey sriracha sauce is AMAZING! The perfect amount of sweet and spicy without any refined sugar.
- These homemade meatballs are baked, not fried.
- Best part is you can easily make this entire meal in under 30 minutes!
- Such an easy recipe with the best meatballs that makes the perfect quick dinner.
Ingredients You’ll Need
- ground turkey – I used lean ground turkey because that’s just what we prefer, but you could also use ground chicken, ground pork, or lean ground beef to make beef meatballs.
- bread crumbs – I used whole wheat panko breadcrumbs to help the meatballs keep their round shape, but feel free use regular breadcrumbs, gluten-free breadcrumbs or almond flour, if needed.
- eggs – acts as a binder, along with the breadcrumbs, to hold all the ingredients together.
- green onions – I like to mix these in with the meatballs for a boost of flavor and color, but I also sprinkle additional green onion on top when serving.
- seasonings – a combination of garlic powder, salt and black pepper.
For the Sauce:
- sriracha – the star of this recipe that adds a nice kick to this sauce! If this has too much heat for you, feel free to cut the amount of sriracha in half.
- soy sauce – I always use low-sodium soy sauce as I find that regular soy sauce can make dishes too salty. You could also swap the soy sauce with tamari or coconut aminos to make this gluten-free.
- rice vinegar – you can also use white wine vinegar or apple cider vinegar.
- sesame oil – adds that delicious Asian flavor to this sauce! You could also use olive oil.
- honey – not only does this add some sweetness to the sauce without using refined sugars, but it also makes a nice sticky sweet glaze! You could also swap the honey with maple syrup or brown sugar if you don’t have honey on hand.
- garlic – I recommend using fresh chopped garlic or minced garlic cloves from the jar for the best flavor, but garlic powder will work too.
- ginger – fresh ginger is definitely best in this dish, but feel free to use 1 teaspoon ground ginger or ginger paste if that’s all you have.
I personally think this spicy sriracha sauce is perfect as-is, but if you wanted to thicken the sauce, you can just add a teaspoon or two of corn starch or arrowroot powder for a healthier option.
How to Make Honey Sriracha Meatballs
- Make the meatballs. This you can easily do ahead of time! In a large bowl, mix together ground turkey, breadcrumbs, eggs, green onions, garlic powder, salt and black pepper until well combined. Shape mixture into 1 1/2 inch balls using a small cookie scoop or your hands and place them spaced apart on a prepared baking sheet coated in non-stick cooking spray or lined with parchment paper. You should get about 40 meatballs.
- Bake! Bake the meatballs in the oven at 375 degrees F for 20 to 25 minutes, until browned and cooked through. The internal temperature should read 165 degrees F.
- Make the sauce. While the meatballs are baking, combine all the ingredients for the sauce in a small pot over medium heat and bring to a boil, whisking continuously. Once the sauce is boiling, reduce the heat and simmer for 8 to 10 minutes to let the sauce thicken. Make sure to continually stir the sauce.
- Serve and enjoy! Remove any excess grease off the cooked meatballs and toss with the honey sriracha sauce. Serve over brown rice and garnish with extra green onions and sesame seeds, if desired. Enjoy!
What If the Sauce is Too Spicy?
The honey and soy sauce in this recipe really balance out the heat perfectly, but if this sauce is too hot for you, there are a couple things you can do.
- Cut sriracha in half – the easiest thing to do is cut back on half the sriracha sauce as a little bit does go along way.
- Add more soy sauce – not only does this give you more sauce to coat the meatballs, but it will cut the spice. You could also add a little lime juice for more of a tangy flavor.
- Make it sweeter – add in some sweet chili sauce to keep the spice, but sweeten the sauce up a bit. Your taste buds will thank you!
Great for Meal Prep
This honey sriracha meatballs recipe has easy ingredients, is quick to make and great for meal prep! Such a delicious recipe that makes me look forward to my lunch each day when I have these waiting for me. This meatball recipe makes about 40 (1 1/2-inch) meatballs so they’re perfect for my hubby and I to each have about 3 lunches leftover, once we devoured some for dinner of course. I’ve also been asked several times about where I purchased these Pyrex dishes (which I LOVE) for my meal prep bowls and you can find them HERE on Amazon!
I always like to make a big batch of brown rice to serve with these spicy meatballs along with a side of vegetables as the rice really helps to cut the spice from the honey sriracha glaze. Check out my post on how to make perfect brown rice right in your Instant Pot every single time! You could also serve these meatballs over quinoa or even cauliflower rice if you’re watching your carbs. Then just top everything with some green onions and sprinkle on a few sesame seeds and you’ve got a deliciously FILLING, healthy meal all ready to go!
How to Serve Honey Sriracha Meatballs
- As a main dish – serve these tender meatballs over white rice, brown rice, or even cauliflower rice along with side dishes of broccoli, green beans, carrots or other vegetables. Making rice bowls are my favorite way to enjoy this recipe as an easy weeknight dinner.
- With pasta – serve these baked meatballs over pasta, orzo, spaghetti squash or zucchini noodles.
- In a wrap – serve the meatballs in a wrap or lettuce cups along with sliced veggies and this peach mango salsa. Make a double batch of the sauce and drizzle on top of these meatballs.
- As a party appetizer – this delicious meatball recipe makes the perfect appetizer served with toothpicks for your next party! Just make sure to double or triple these cooked meatballs because they are always a huge hit and crowd favorite. You could also use the sauce and make honey sriracha chicken wings for game day!
Prepping and Storage
Make Ahead: These meatballs can easily be prepped ahead of time and stored in the fridge tightly covered for 2 or 3 days before baking. Then when you’re ready to bake, pop them in the oven and make the sauce on the stove as directed. You can also easily prep the sauce ahead of time too! Just reheat in a saucepan right before tossing with the meatballs.
To Store: If you’re planning on storing these meatballs for later, let them cool completely then store then in a sealed, airtight container in your fridge for 3 to 4 days while the sauce itself will last up to 2 weeks.
To Freeze: These meatballs are freezer-friendly too and will last for up to 3 to 4 months frozen. I recommend freezing the sauce separately in a sealed, airtight container. To reheat, simply thaw the meatballs out in the fridge and place them in a skillet on low heat, stirring often, until warmed through. You could also reheat them in the microwave for 1 to 2 minutes.
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Honey Sriracha Glazed Meatballs
Ingredients
For the meatballs:
- 2 lbs lean ground turkey
- 1 cup whole wheat panko breadcrumbs
- 2 eggs
- 1/4 cup green onions, chopped
- 1/2 teaspoon garlic powder
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1/2 teaspoon black pepper
For the sauce:
- 1/4 cup Sriracha
- 3 tablespoons reduced-sodium soy sauce
- 3 tablespoons rice vinegar
- 3 tablespoons honey
- 1 Tbsp grated fresh ginger
- 3 cloves garlic, minced
- 1/2 teaspoon sesame oil
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 375 degrees F.
- In a large bowl, mix together turkey, breadcrumbs, eggs, green onions, garlic powder and salt/pepper until well combined. Shape mixture into 1 1/2-inch balls (you’ll make roughly 40 balls) and place spaced apart on prepared baking sheets lightly sprayed with cooking spray.
- Bake meatballs for 20 to 25 minutes, or until browned and cooked through.
- While the meatballs are baking, combine all the ingredients for the sauce in a small saucepan and bring to a boil over medium heat, whisking continuously. Reduce heat and simmer for 8 to 10 minutes (the sauce will start to thicken) then toss with the meatballs.
- Serve immediately over brown rice and top with green onions and a few sesame seeds. Enjoy!
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Nutrition
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Hi there, just discovered this recipe and excited to try it! I’m curious about your calorie count though – does that include the rice or just the meatballs? I’m guessing not based on the fibre content but wanted to check in! Thanks for sharing this recipe!
Calorie content is just for the meatballs! Hope you enjoy this recipe! 🙂
How would I figure out calories on the sauce also? To track it in my fitness pal? Just made these today and they smell and look delicious. Thank you!
Sure! Here is the breakdown for just the sauce (8 servings): Calories: 42 • Fat: 0.3 g • Saturated Fat: 0 g • Carbs: 9.2 g • Fiber: 0.1 g • Protein: 0.1 g • Sugar: 8.4 g
Could you post the nutritional facts/WW SP for just the sauce? I have a feeling i am going to want this sauce on everything this summer!!
thanks!
Looks delish! Are you including rice when you calculate the WW smart points? In the app, I’m getting 5 points per serving when I don’t include rice.
Omg this dish was super bomb! Love the sauce
Thanks so much for sharing this – I want to try this recipe next week but am not sure if I want to make the full recipe. If I do, are these meatballs freezable cooked?
Yes absolutely!
Yum! This looks amazing! The Sriracha skewers also look amazing- I am about to make all of it! 🙂
These look delicious!! I also love all things sriracha.
Does the 8 smart points in the nutrional info include the rice or just for the meatballs?
I made these meatballs tonight for dinner, I doubled the sauce, cause that’s what I do. 😊 They were a bit too spicy, and I like spicy food! I was wondering do you think they were so spicy because I doubled the sauce? Maybe I messed up on the ingredients, but I didn’t get much sweetness at all, just heat. I ended up sprinkling some brown sugar over the top of the meatballs and sauce to tone down the heat. I will make them again, but your input will be helpful to know if I need to add a little more sweetness for my palate. Are they typically very spicy? Maybe I’m more of a wimp than I thought! PS…yes I did add the honey. 😉
Hmm I’m thinking it may have been a combination of doubling the sauce and not having enough sweetness to cut the spice. I would add another tablespoon of honey and I’ve adjusted the recipe accordingly 🙂 Sorry they turned out too spicy for you!
They were WAY too spicy for me too ( i love spicy!) and I followed the recipe verbatim.
I’m actually shocked at the people saying this was too spicy. It’s a minimal amount of sriracha which isn’t even comparable to like.. a hot wing lol
Way to spicy and we like spicy food around here. Next time I’ll use half the amount of Sriracha. I’m talking lips ON FIRE and no amount of milk helped.
I only did a 1/2 batch of the sauce and meatballs and our lips are in fire! We love spicy food but this was a little to much for us. We loved the underlying flavors. So wondering how 1 tablespoon of the sriracha would be in the recipe inside of the 1/8 cup I used (I only made a 1/2 batch).? Thinking this would help with the heat. Otherwise it was a great recipe.
I’m sorry to hear these were too spicy for you! You can definitely reduce the amount of sriracha in this recipe or even increase the honey for more sweetness 🙂
Extremely spicy. Be aware
We love spicy food in our house, but the 1/4 cup of siracha masks most of the flavor.
Will reduce that to 1/8 cup next time. Far too hot. But very flavorful
I discovered a huge difference in spice level between using an off brand sriracha vs the name brand, with the first coming out fine the first time I made this recipe and the latter (name brand) making it unbearably spicy when I made this recipe again at a later date. Couldn’t attribute the spice level to anything else.
Omg. I have made this for dinner the past 3 weeks meal prep!!! I think I need go switch it up now lol. This was amazing. I just started meal prepping three weeks ago. Hopefully I find more recipes this good:)
This really, truly IS the best recipe I have ever made/tasted from the Eat Yourself Skinny blog! Kelly has SO many awesome recipes, but this one is by FAR my favorite!!! The brown rice goes perfectly with these flavor-filled, slightly spicy and slight sweet meatballs! I LOVE THESE!!!
We make sriracha honey pork chops all the time but these sound much healthier! I love that they’re great for meal prep too. And we have the same Pyrex dishes and they’re awesome!
Yes aren’t they the best?! Hope you enjoy these! 🙂
Wow! I just made these today using 1 lb ground chicken and one lb of lean ground turkey. The sauce is phenomenal- I will be putting it on everything including grilled meat!
If you don’t like your food too spicy, I suggest cutting the sriracha in half and add more to taste.
We love these! I have altered the recipe to lower the kick! I cut the siracha to 1/3-1/2 then use ketchup to make up the balance. I forgot to do that tonight and they were just a little fiery for us!
Be careful with ground turkey, it’s defintely not always the HEALTHEST choice. Often times it’s higher in fat and calories than ground beef of the same lean/fat ratio. If you get it too lean, it’s near tasteless.
This recipe would taste great using ground beef as well 🙂
The sauce was WAY too spicy for me too. Omg I thought 1/4 cup of Sriracha was a lot but went with it because I like spice, but hard no one that one
Yes, I cut it back to a tablespoon of Sriracha for my second batch. I had to throw out the first ones, my husband who loves hot foods couldn’t even eat them! They tasted great with less Sriracha tho!
Can this be done in the crockpot?
Agreed this is WAY, WAY too hot. I’m wimpy with heat, but my husband loves spicy things and was really struggling with this. I would reduce the sriracha by at least half. You can always add more after sampling. Wish I had read everyone’s comments prior to making.
Can you use frozen turkey meatballs
Sure! 🙂
Has anyone made these gluten free? What worked well replacing the breadcrumbs?
I never comment on these things but had to with this – it was amazing!
I used ground beef instead of turkey.
Is the sauce freezable if I were to make a large batch to re heat to use? If not freezable can it be reheated from the fridge?
Thanks.
I found this recipe January 2021 when I first started meal prepping for my fiance and I. This is our absolute favorite recipe!! I have made this 100’s of times in the past year and shared this with all my family and friends! I can’t say enough good things about how delicious these meatballs are! This is the only meal prep recipe I can eat every single day of the week and not get sick of it! Thank you for sharing this with us! 😍
These meatballs sound yummy! How do you think they would be over zucchini noodles (with a little extra sauce)?
I think that’s a great idea! YUM! 🙂
We tried these tonight. We subbed out the honey and sriracha for a honey sriracha spice (powder) from target and they were SO yummy. We had to make extra sauce as it reduced down to almost nothing even after adding water
Great recipe! It was delicious! Thank you. This sauce will be a staple!
I’m new to cooking, so this was the first time I’ve made meatballs! Quite a tasty turnout. I had to use ground ginger for the sauce instead, because my fresh ginger i bought apparently wasn’t so fresh… 🤦🏻♀️ I will say that it was a little more spice than I was expecting. Next time I’ll add some more honey! The sriracha was very overpowering to all the other flavors.
I like things saucy- I pour sauce all over my rice. I halved the meatball portions and kept the sauce portion the same, and it was a great amount. So if you like it saucy and do the meat portion as is, definitely double it the sauce!
Great recipe. Subbed in shredded zucchini for the eggs and added about 2 tbsp of a dark mushroom soy to the meatballs. Doubled the sauce since we prefer them saucy. Replaced half the soy in the sauce with ponzo which adds a nice bright note to it. One of our favorites for meal prep.