Melt In Your Mouth Meatballs

I made these meatballs the other night and heard over and over how good they were!

I found them over at Genius Kitchen who spotlighted Kittencal's Italian Melt In Your Mouth Meatballs.

Give them a try and enjoy!!!

Meatball Soup

This is a life saving leftover’s meal!

I make a lot of bone broth from chicken backs that I get at Wholefoods. After cooking it I let it cool overnight in the fridge and then put it in freezer bags and store in the freezer and get it out when need to use it. Easy peezy!

After heating up the frozen chicken broth I add my cut up veggies...carrots, zucchini, and yellow squash, which most of the time these veggies are pre-steamed or cut up and in a container already in the fridge. I make sure my rice is ready to go as well.

***Always make sure to clean your rice before you cook it!!! After measuring the rice put it in the pot and I like using clean purified water from our water filter to clean the rice over and over by grabbing it with my hands and rubbing it and then dumping the water out carefully to not let the rice dump out. Seriously, repeat this over and over until the water runs clear or is close to it. Rice naturally has arsenic, its in the soil, it can be reduced by cleaning the rice very well. Also, this is what Chinese people do...they always clean their rice!

Then I also used my leftover meatball to add in.

Add in sea salt, pepper, other spices to taste.

*** I also just learned that to make broths low fodmap you have to be careful about what types of bones you use. If it's from bones that still have lots of cartilage and remains it still has, I think, a good amount of polyols that will irritate your gut. It did mine, but it took awhile for me to finally discover it. So, for low fodmap Dr. Allison Siebecker suggests making bone broth that is from purely bones.

Super good!

Sweet & Sour Meatballs

These meatballs are Paleo and have no dairy (cheese) or grains (breadcrumbs) for fillers.

I know I know to not use the different variety of cheeses that can be put into meatballs is almost unthinkable, but I can't have dairy or breadcrumbs that have wheat in them, so non-traditional meatballs it is. *The meatballs are Paleo, but definitely not the mac&cheese and rice!

Luckily, Against All Grain always saves me and provides good recipes that I can mostly eat.

We made the sauce, but The Fish Fam didn't like it because it was too tangy and tart. I think if you used the tomato puree she suggests it might taste better. But, after having leftovers and still having lots of sauce and meatballs left we dumped the sauce and washed off the meatballs. And throughly enjoy the meatballs by themselves, great flavor.

The meatballs remind me of the flavorful meats in different dishes we had in Asia.

Here is Danielle's recipe for her Game-Day Sweet and Sour Meatballs...

AUTHOR: Danielle Walker - AgainstAllGrain.com

SERVES: 3 dozen

PREP TIME: 20 mins

COOK TIME: 45 mins TOTAL TIME: 65 mins

Ingredients:

• 2 pounds ground beef, chicken, or pork
• 2 large eggs
• 2 small vidalia sweet onions, about 1 cup minced
• ¼ cup almond meal (with the skins) or 2 tablespoons coconut flour
• 1 tablespoon sesame oil
• 1.5 teaspoons ground ginger
• 2 teaspoon sea salt

Sauce:

• 3 cups tomato puree
• ¾ cup unsweetened pineapple juice
• ⅓ cup honey
• ⅓ cup coconut aminos
• ¼ cup tomato paste
• 2 tablespoons apple cider vinegar
• 2 tablespoons dijon mustard
• 1.5 teaspoons sea salt
• ½ teaspoon ground ginger
• ½ teaspoon onion powder

Instructions:

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
2. Make the sauce first by combining all of the ingredients in a wide pot. Bring to a low boil then reduce the heat to medium-low and let it simmer uncovered for 45 minutes, until thickened.
3. Meanwhile, make the meatballs.
4. Place the onion in a food processor and pulse until finely minced.
5. Add the egg, almond meal, beef, oil, ginger, and sea salt. Pulse until fully combined.
6. Roll the mixture into small bite-sized meatballs.
7. Space them evenly on two rimmed baking sheets and bake for 12 minutes, turning once.
8. Once the sauce has thickened, transfer it and the meatballs to a slow cooker set to low. Cover until ready to enjoy.

URL to article: http://againstallgrain.com/2014/01/23/game-day-sweet-sour-meatballs/

*We used organic beef and turkey meat. I wouldn't suggest the turkey meat with beef, but it's all we had in the freezer to make the 2lbs. Also, I made more meatballs, without the sauce and added some tamari sauce (gluten free soy sauce) in the mix.

**To make it Fodmap free for me I had to take out the onions in the meatballs. In the sauce I also had to void the honey and used maple syrup instead. Also, had to void the onion powder. I used white wine vinegar instead of apple cider vinegar. I also only had organic canned tomato sauce in my pantry and not tomato puree.

The Fish Fam topped the meatballs over rice with organic mac&cheese and broccoli for sides.

*I had a bowl of rice with three meatballs and some steamed yellow squash and bok choy.

This was our leftovers for lunch today....

Enjoy!