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 🙃
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. 😅 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. 😂
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.
