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These easy gluten free meatballs are so succulent and savoury with a texture so perfect, you’ll judge all other meatballs by them! Whether you serve them with spaghetti sauce, turn them into Swedish meatballs, tuck them in the best meatball subs, or serve them on toothpicks as an appetizer, you’ll never miss the gluten!

Gluten Free Meatballs

Rebecca Lindamood
Prep Time 20 minutes
Cook Time 20 minutes
Total Time 40 minutes
These easy gluten free meatballs are so succulent and savoury with a texture so perfect, you’ll judge all other meatballs by them! Whether you serve them with spaghetti sauce, turn them into Swedish meatballs, tuck them in meatball subs, or serve them on toothpicks as an appetizer, you’ll never miss the gluten!

Equipment

  • Large cast-iron skillet or stainless steel skillet or air fryer
  • Chef Knife
  • cutting board
  • mixing bowl
  • Sturdy spoon or mix and chop
  • Optional but handy:
  • dishers/cookie scoops
  • instant read thermometer

Ingredients
  

  • 2 pounds ground beef
  • 1 ½ cups cooked quinoa
  • ½ onion peeled and grated or minced
  • ½ a red bell pepper grated or finely diced
  • 6 cloves garlic peeled and minced, or granulated garlic or garlic powder
  • ¼ cup fresh parsley finely chopped, or 1 1/2 tablespoons dried parsley flakes
  • 3 tablespoons balsamic vinegar
  • 2 large eggs
  • 2 tablespoons Italian seasoning
  • 2 teaspoons kosher salt
  • 1 teaspoon black pepper
  • 2 tablespoons neutral oil like sunflower, grapeseed, rice bran, vegetable, or canola oil.

Instructions
 

To Make the Meatball Mix:

  • Add all of the ingredients to a medium mixing bowl and use your hands or a chop and stir to mix thoroughly but gently. Divide the mixture into the desired number of meatballs and form gently.

To Cook the Meatballs in the Oven:

  • Preheat the oven to 425ºF with a large cast-iron skillet on the top shelf.
  • When the oven is preheated, remove the cast iron skillet, drizzle in the oil, and swirl the pan to coat. Arrange the meatballs in the hot skillet with space between them and return the pan to the oven.
  • You may need to do more than one batch depending on the size of your cast iron or stainless steel skillet.
  • If making meatballs that are about 2-inches in size, it will take about 20 minutes for the meatballs to cook through. Start checking smaller meatballs at about 12 minutes. See Notes.

To Cook Meatballs In Air Fryer

  • Preheat the air fryer to 400ºF for 5 minutes. When the air fryer is preheated, arrange the meatballs in a single layer with space between them in the air fryer basket.
  • Cook at 400ºF for 8-10 minutes for small meatballs or 15-18 minutes for larger ones. See Notes

Notes

Meatballs made from different types of ground meat have different temperatures at which they’re considered done. Beef and pork and mixtures of those should be cooked to an internal temperature of 160ºF while poultry meatballs are considered done at 165ºF.

Nutrition

Calories: 394kcalCarbohydrates: 11gProtein: 23gFat: 28gSaturated Fat: 9gPolyunsaturated Fat: 2gMonounsaturated Fat: 13gTrans Fat: 1gCholesterol: 121mgSodium: 679mgPotassium: 452mgFiber: 2gSugar: 2gVitamin A: 475IUVitamin C: 13mgCalcium: 64mgIron: 4mg

Nutritional information is an estimate and provided to you as a courtesy. You should calculate the nutritional information with the actual ingredients used in your recipe using your preferred nutrition calculator.

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