Cooked lentils – Lentils give these vegetarian porcupine meatballs their shape. Minute Brown Rice – Rice binds these oven porcupine meatballs instead of breadcrumbs. Onion – Yellow onion ...

Cover, reduce the heat to medium-low, and simmer until the rice is tender and pokes out of the meatballs (like a porcupine!), about 40 minutes. Allow the meatballs to cool for 5 minutes before ...

about 1 minute. Season with salt. To serve, spoon saffron rice onto plates and top with turkey meatballs. Spoon green yogurt over top and garnish with cilantro.