So I often start off with recipes from a book or friend/family or website and then modify them through experimenting, usually because of my allergies but also sometimes just for fun or because I'm out of an ingredient. So last night I did a new mod to my meatball recipe, and I thought I would share the results!
1 lb ground venison
1/4 cup coconut flour
1/4 cup milk
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon Worcestershire sauce
1 small onion, finely chopped, that you totally chop in advance and put in the freezer and you forgot to defrost it because you're a dork 馃檭
1 egg
1/4 teaspoon each pepper, onion powder, and oregano
As much garlic powder as your heart tells you is correct (but at least 1/4 teaspoon)
Oil to grease the baking pan
Smush all the ingredients except for the oil together in a bowl using your hands. Roll into balls. Place in a greased Pyrex baking dish (you can use metal too but then you'll need to lessen the cook time probably). Bake uncovered at 400*F for 25ish minutes until no longer pink inside (my bake time is using a toaster oven which often is faster, so if you're using a big oven it might take a bit longer).
I made my first meal with these a meatball sub, in which case you can get your bread, cheese, tomato sauce, and more garlic powder (because my heart said so) ready while the meatballs are baking. I used provolone cheese. :)
Yum! :)
I don't eat tons of meat - I probably average nowadays two pounds per month maybe? - but I even more rarely eat beef. Occasionally I might have a hot dog that is beef or eat a burger from a takeaway but that's very rare. At home if I'm making something like this where the recipe is usually beef, I prefer to use a different red meat like venison or bison. They are generally healthier, and you can't factory farm deer and bison, eh? I've tried elk before but it's not my favorite. I don't know how to describe it, but it tastes ...heavier? Muskier? Neither of those are food words but I can't think of a way to say it any better. 馃槄 They are of course more expensive than beef, but since I eat so little meat anyway, I figure it's worth the expense. Quality over quantity in my book. Other people can have their giant Fred Flintstone size rack of ribs and I will eat my meatball and a half in a sandwich and feel like I'm going to explode. 馃槀
Do you like more "wild" meats like venison and bison? What do you make with them?
PS, yes, as you can tell from the packaging, I am not a hunter, I bought the venison in a store. The brand is Durham Ranch and they offer venison, wild boar, kangaroo (I've never tried that one), and maybe bison too, I don't remember. I find them at Sprouts market.
