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Gluten free meatballs

This is a delicious meatball recipe that is gluten and egg free..

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  • Recipe:

    The recipe is provided by 'All in Italian Language and Cookery School'

  • Difficulty: Medium
  • Serves 6
  • Gluten Free
  • Freezable

Preparation

Total time
45 Mins
Preparation time
15 Mins
Cooking time
30 Mins
  • 1 sweet onion

  • garlic (5x cloves), chopped

  • 1 carrot, chopped

  • 450g organic grass fed ground beef

  • 450g organic ground pork

  • 100g natural ketchup

  • 1 tbsp organic molasses

  • 1 tbsp balsamic vinegar

  • 50g Italian parsley, chopped

  • 100g gluten-free herbed bread crumbs

  • ¼ tsp cinnamon

  • 1 tsp fine sea salt

  • 1 tsp olive oil

  1. Line a baking sheet with parchment paper

  2. Toss the onion, garlic and carrot pieces into a food processor and pulse until the texture is very finely diced - set aside

  3. In a large mixing bowl, briefly stir together the ground beef and pork

  4. Add in the processed onion, garlic and carrot mixture, ketchup, molasses, balsamic vinegar, parsley, gluten-free bread crumbs, sea salt and pepper flakes - mix gently to combine, (try not to over-mix or it makes a dense meatball)

  5. Rub a little olive oil on your hands and form the meatball mixture into balls (roughly the size of golf balls)

  6. Place them on the lined baking sheet - you should end up with about 20-24 balls

  7. Bake the meatballs in the centre of the preheated oven for about 30 minutes until done (no longer pink in the centre)

  8. You could also fry the meatballs in a large skillet, using olive oil, but this method makes less healthy meatballs

  9. Makes about six servings, which can be eaten hot or cold

Tips

Smaller meatballs cook faster, so if your meatballs are smaller, check them at 20 minutes

Reviews

★★★★★ Rated 5 out of 5 stars. 2 Ratings
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  • Guest

    ★★★★★ Rated 5 out of 5 stars.

    such a good recipe and inspired me to switch the mince to pork mince and use a scotch egg mix as well tasty oven baked

    Reviewed on 05/09/15

  • Guest

    ★★★★★ Rated 5 out of 5 stars.

    Just perfect for our gluten free family members, delicious!

    Reviewed on 17/03/15

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