Gluten Free Meatballs
Delicious meatballs without the gluten.
Equipment
- Oven
- large frying pan
Ingredients
Meatballs
- 1 pound ground beef (500 grams)
- ½ cup cooked white rice
- 2 cloves garlic
- ¼ cup fresh parsley
- ¼ cup parmesan cheese grated or shredded
- 1 egg medium to large size
- ½ onion - white, yellow or brown keep the other half for the sauce
Tomato Sauce
- 24 oz canned tomatoes (700 grams) Or use passata
- ½ onion the other half of the onion from the meatballs
- 3 cloves garlic
- 2 tablespoons olive oil
Instructions
Meatballs
- Cook the rice in a rick cooker or on the stove
- Preheat oven to 375 F (190 C)
- Finely chop the onion, garlic and fresh parsley. Use a garlic press for the garlic if you have one. Place these ingredients into a large mixing bowl.
- Add in the ground meat, and mix well with clean hands to get the flavour distributed throughout.
- Next add in half a cup of cooked white rice and mix well.
- Add in the egg and parmesan cheese, and give everything a good mixing with your clean hands. Don’t worry about using your hands, it really is the easiest way to do it.
- Using your clean hands again, roll some of the mixture into balls about 1 inch (2 cm) in size.
- Place the meatballs spaced out evenly on a baking tray prepared with baking paper.
- Place the baking tray of meatballs into the preheated oven, and let them bake for 20 minutes.
Tomato Sauce
- In a frying pan add 3 cloves of diced (or pressed) garlic, the other half of the onion, 2 tablespoons of good quality olive oil and cook until the onions are soft.
- Next add in the tomato passata or tomato puree, and heat until it starts to bubble.
- When the meatballs are baked, take them out of the oven and pop them in the frying pan with the tomato sauce.
- Let the meatballs and tomato sauce simmer, reduce the sauce until you get the consistency that you want.
- Once you have the sauce just right, serve the meatballs and sauce on a bed of cooked quinoa, top with extra grated parmesan cheese and some fresh parsley.
Nutrition
Calories: 212kcal
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