Melissa Malinowski, ND

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Meatballs with Zesty Basil-Chive Sauce

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This amazing recipe is an adaptation of Balanced Bites Meatballs with Tangy Cilantro-Chive Sauce recipe from Dianes ebook Simplifying SIBO, The Latest Scoop on Small Intestinal Bacterial Overgrowth.

This recipe is FODMAP friendly (nourishing for the gut) and totally delicious!

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Meatballs with Zesty Basil-Chive Sauce
 
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This meatball recipe is FODMAP friendly (nourishing for the gut) and totally delicious!
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Recipe type: Main
Ingredients
  • 2 pounds beef, lamb, bison or turkey
  • ⅓ cup chives, chopped
  • ⅓ cup green onion, chopped (mix of white and green portion)
  • 1 cup basil
  • ½ cup melted butter or ghee
  • zest from 1 whole lemon
  • 1 Tablespoon fresh squeezed lemon juice
  • 1 teaspoon cardamom
  • 1 teaspoon cumin
  • 1 teaspoon ground ginger
  • 1 teaspoon sea salt
Instructions
  1. Preheat oven to 375
  2. Combine meat, green onions, ginger, cardomom, cumin, salt and lemon zest in a bowl and mix well with your hands. Combine into little meatballs about 1.5 in in diameter each. Bake about 18-20 minutes.
  3. While the meatball bake you can prepare the sauce;
  4. Combine the chives, basil, melted butter, and lemon juice in the food processor for about 1 minute.
  5. Heat the sauce up and pour over meatballs.
 

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Comments

  4. Yang says

    I’m going to be making meatballs for tonight and I’m really excited to try this sauce for my meatballs. I’m sure my family would absolutely love it. Thank you for sharing this recipe!

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  5. crafty one says

    I saw this picture and my mouth watered. I wondeer if theey go good with spaghetti because I usually just make a meat sauce for my spaghetti, but I might just add some meatballs… 😀

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