- 'Cause I want my meatballs brown all over.
I want the whole ball- oh,
pause or something they say.
(Nivea laughs)
I cant even say it with a straight face,
it was too much.
Y'all know what I mean.
(upbeat music)
Hey y'all I'm Nivea,
and today I'm gonna cook for you,
some turkey, meatball tacos.
(Nivea laughs)
(upbeat music)
Let's get it popping.
Okay, so first off I want to say yes,
I will be really cooking like this.
My kids know what's up.
And which also, is another point I wanna make,
this is an easy quick-to meal.
I have four kids,
and we don't have a lot of time,
and momma be out, you know, doing my career stuff.
I grew up where I didn't really come from much.
And we were quick to think of,
oh, just put that with that.
And especially sausage, sausage goes a long way,
let me tell you.
You know, first thing is,
I'm making ground turkey meatballs.
You can use ground chicken,
you can use ground beef or whatever you want,
but I choose to use ground turkey.
I loved ground turkey it's juicy,
and is leaner meat.
So ima put some oil in the pan, we gon' fry.
We gon' fry.
(plastic ripping)
Put the whole thing in there.
Turkey meat is so soft.
All right, so now we're ready to season our turkey meat.
And no, I'm not measuring it,
it's like where I'm from, I'm from the south.
Like you can see it, your can tell by your sight.
So we call it, eyeballing it.
Yeah, so we added some black pepper.
You season to your liking
like I want some more garlic,
I know I want garlic in mine, okay, cool.
And, I love Pink Himalayan salt,
because it's better for you.
You don't need that much 'cause I don't cook
with a lot of salt.
Okay mix in all the seasoning.
You wanna make sure all the seasons covering the meat,
so when you take that bite,
you got flavor all through and through.
You wanna go ahead and put the oil, extra virgin olive oil
or whatever oil you got child.
You wanna fill it to, out on the edge.
And that aint really enough
so we gon' need a little bit more.
All right, now I'm finna get to cutting this cheese honey.
Just in half.
Some of them kind of bigger than the other ones.
(Nivea laughs)
I'm just kidding.
Yes, I cook with jewelry on sometimes, get into it.
So you take the cheese and press it in,
you just roll, roll, roll,
rolly-polly.
Roll a ball in the palm of your hand.
Boom, bam, body slam,
you didn't even know a piece of cheese is in here.
Okay we think the pan is hot enough to start,
actually no it's not.
This is how you know when you're pan of oil,
is hot enough.
It should be a slight little bubble,
or a little veiny thing going down at the bottom.
So, another way is to get some water on your fingertips.
(water runs)
And you just go, boom.
We didn't hear nothing as you can tell.
Roll it, rollin' I think my mommy would be proud.
(Nivea laughs)
Sharing one of the hood meals or something like it.
Somewhat of a similar technique.
Okay, so per taco, you only need like two meatballs.
These kind of big too,
I think I'm making them a little too big.
It's gonna be more than five minutes.
Under ten.
It's great to be able to cook
instead of buying out all the time,
because it's a lot healthier and less expensive.
Okeedileedokilee.
I'm not gonna discriminate, he was first y'all,
he was first in line y'all.
They mad that I let him go first.
I rolled him first, the other meatballs hating.
I'm just kidding, there we go.
Ooh, I heard the bubbles now.
It's ready.
So here we go.
I'm suppose to be using the tongs,
you can tell I'm use to-
(Nivea laughs)
cooking at home with my kids.
Aint nothing wrong as long as your hands are clean,
with getting on in there and doing that.
Okay next, I'm gonna wash my hands
'cause I don't have to touch the meat anymore.
(oil sizzling)
One more, time for remise.
Who wouldn't want to eat a little piece of cheese
and it's cute, so you're like.
Mmm, it tastes cute, I don't know what that means,
but it do.
Okay, y'all can go over here, we don't need you anymore.
Also turkey, if you using turkey, ground turkey like I did,
a lot of times, you're not going to get the same color
as you would with ground beef browning.
It tends to take on a lighter color,
it doesn't mean that it's not done.
If you don't know, now you know.
(plates slides)
I don't like things that gursh out in your mouth.
I don't wanna something and it go, pshh.
I don't care, I don't, uh uh, no.
Long story short,
sometimes you see the cheese like burst out the side,
your like, ooh you is cooking.
And I know I'm being silly,
but there's honestly a way to tell that it's cooking through
'cause it got to the middle
which is where we throw the cheese at, so.
Anyway, we almost ready to turn them over.
So, it's also another sicky.
If the cheese come out the side like that,
I think that's so, yummy-fied
I swear I don't eat cheese like this at home.
They're so cute.
(upbeat music)
I just like to tear off,
the excess.
If you try to rush your food,
it will be rushly cooked.
Not done in the inside, something tastes weird,
too much grease, you know,
all types of other stuff.
'Cause you're trying to rush through it.
Cooking takes its process.
It's scientific, it's love,
it's all the stuff you've ever heard,
but it really is.
(oil sizzling)
(ding)
What is with this cheese?
I need to stop.
Ray is ready, look at him golden brown y'all.
Oh, look at you little darling.
Oh, they are so cute,
you can't say they are not cute.
And you know, you finna bite into a piece of cheese.
Oh they pretty now.
Look Ted popping, he showing out now.
He trying to to out-do the rest, that's okay.
Everyone is treated equally, everybody is beautiful
as the next.
He is a little odd shaped like me though.
He's kinda bothering me, come on now honey.
One more piece of cheese aint never hurt nobody.
(Nivea laughs)
Since these are almost done,
I'm gonna go get me a plate so I can make me a taco.
All right, so first things first,
we get the tortilla.
You take your taco sauce.
(upbeat music)
You can blob it in the middle.
Put as much as you like and you just,
S it out.
I guess, yeah that's an S.
Ooh, ooh ooh, ooh, ooh ooh, S, S, S, S.
Then, you take the meatballs,
and you sit her there.
And then you sit him beside her.
Okay, so we're gonna cut those meatballs in half
so that they will be in a better position to stay.
It might split apart,
it's ground turkey, it's pretty soft,
but that's what we want.
We want it to (grunts) anyway.
I like to add the tomatoes first,
because they're kind of wet
and that'll help also like stick the taco together.
A lot of people have this debate, cheese or lettuce first,
I'm doing lettuce first, just a little pinch.
Boom, bam, body slam.
Then, I'm just gonna do a little Parm.
Little Parm aint never done no harm to nobody.
Or has it?
(intense music)
You can add some banana peppers
or whatever else you wanna add,
I thought it was a good idea to just
throw it in at the last minute,
even though that was not in the original recipe,
but hey, why not?
The cheddar is there,
you know, it's so pretty, like why not look at it.
So, here goes.
(Nivea giggles)
(taco crunches)
(upbeat music)
It is falling apart so I'm just gonna eat the meatball.
Oh my lamb, I knew it was gonna be good.
(taco crunches)
It's so good.
So this is how you make my tacos.
If you dare to try your own version of this,
be sure to tag me and BET.
This cheese is heaven.
(upbeat music)