Gluten Free, Low Carb Meatballs for Subs, Spaghetti, or Appetizers

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Gluten Free, Low Carb Meatballs for subs, spaghetti, or appetizers are impossible to find.  Ok, so you might be able to find them where you live, but not where I live!  I normally just buy frozen meatballs and add jar sauce to them.  Recently, I made the mistake of reading the ingredients on the bag.   If you ever want to break a bad food habit, all you have to do is read the ingredients!

The ingredients on the package I read really weren’t that bad, but they contained soy textured protein nugget blah, blah, blah language.  What this boils down to is that the company uses texturized soy protein nugget or granules as a filler in the meatballs for one of two purposes.  It either makes them cheaper and/or uses the soy nuggets to hold the meatballs together in the perfect little meatball shape.  I don’t care what reason they use for adding the soy nuggets, I don’t like soy,  and I don’t want to consume it!

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Gluten Free, Low Carb Meatballs for Subs, Spaghetti, or Appetizers

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Since I was once again selected to create a recipe featuring Red Gold Tomatoes, I decided it was time to visit and try out a recipe I had pinned on my Italian Foods Board on Pinterest.   I pinned this Low Carb Meatballs alla Parmigiana (Gluten Free) forever ago and liked it mainly for two reasons, it’s low carb and gluten free.  Even better, all of the ingredients were normal, everyday things that I already had on hand, or could easily pick up with just a quick trip to our nearest grocery store.

So, last night I set out to make meatballs for the first time ever.  I was afraid that it was going to be hard and stressful.  I was pleasantly surprised at how easy it was to make the Gluten Free, Low Carb Meatballs. 

We recently picked up a pizza while driving home from Six Flags.  The waitress gave me a TON of the cheese packets, so I used it in the meatballs instead of running out to by a new container.  Between the packets and what we did have, was exactly the amount of cheese needed.  Score one for the Frugal Team!

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Being who I am, I wanted the meatballs to be uniform in size.  I wasn’t sure that I would be able to just eyeball it to get this done.  🙁  After making the first couple of meatballs, I remembered my Good Cook Cookie Dropper.  It was the perfect size for scooping up the perfect amount of meatball mixture.  It kept all of my meatballs perfectly bite sized.

Gluten Free, Low Carb Meatballs for Subs, Spaghetti, or Appetizers

After the meatballs cooked overnight in the slow cooker, we awakened to the fragrant smell of Italian cooking.  My daughter said it actually woke her up this morning.  I was starving when I woke up, I suppose it was from smelling these awesome meatballs cooking all night!

Part of this awesome aroma was due to the seasoning I used in the tomatoes. I’ve always been a Spaghetti Sauce Snob, I admit it.  I want a certain texture and taste for my sauce and Prego is the only sauce I’ve bought for probably twenty years.  That all changed last year when I encountered a line of seasoning mixes sold through home representatives.  They’re preservative free, many are gluten free, and so much fresher than anything you can buy on a store shelf, and roughly the same price, maybe even cheaper in the long run!  I quit liking Prego after trying the Wildtree Hearty Spaghetti Sauce Blend.  I use just a few tablespoons of the seasoning along with my canned tomatoes and it’s like, “What’s a Prego?”

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I wanted real sub rolls for my sandwich and picked up the Schar Gluten Free Sub Rolls for the first time.   They were absolutely FABULOUS!  I split them in half and cut a little chunk out of the top.  Then I spread real butter on the top and bottom and sprinkled them with garlic salt.  Into the oven they went for five minutes at 400*.  Out came soft, warm bread that was ready for the most scrumptious meatballs I’ve ever prepared!  Why did I cut the chunk out of the top?  It allowed the top of the bun to sit down around the meatballs.  No slip, sliding meatballs falling off my sandwich (Cue “On Top of Spaghetti”).

Since there are only two of us, we have several bowls of meatballs in our freezer now.  They’re ready to just heat and eat.  I don’t think they’ll be there waiting for very long.  😉

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Gluten Free, Low Carb Meatballs for Subs, Spaghetti, or Appetizers

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Serves: 8

Gluten Free, Low Carb Meatballs for subs, spaghetti, or appetizers are impossible to find. Maybe not where you live, but they are where I live!
Ingredients
  • MEATBALLS
  • 1½ lbs ground chuck
  • 4 Tbl fresh parsley, chopped
  • ¾ cup grated parmesan cheese
  • ½ cup almond flour
  • ¼ - ½ c finely chopped onion
  • 2 eggs
  • 1 tsp salt
  • 1 tsp garlic salt
  • 1 tsp seasoned salt
  • ¼ tsp ground black pepper
  • 1 tsp garlic powder
  • ½ tsp dried oregano
  • SAUCE
  • 14.5 oz can Red Gold Tomatoes with Basil, Garlic, & Oregano
  • 28 oz. can Red Gold Crushed Tomatoes
  • 2 Tbs Wildtree Hearty Spaghetti Sauce Blend Gluten Free, Low Carb Meatballs for Subs, Spaghetti, or Appetizers Ingredients
Instructions
  1. Preheat oven to 350*.
  2. Combine all of the meatball ingredients in a bowl and mix well.
  3. Using either a small scoop or your hands, form the meat into 48 meatballs.
  4. Place on foil lined baking pan and bake at 350*F for 20 minutes OR fry in a large skillet over medium heat until cooked. Gluten Free, Low Carb Meatballs for Subs, Spaghetti, or Appetizers
  5. While meatballs are cooking, add both cans of tomatoes and Spaghetti Sauce Blend to slow cooker. Stir to mix.
  6. Meatballs cooked in the oven will cook out fat and other "junk," depending on the amount of fat in the beef. Gluten Free, Low Carb Meatballs for Subs, Spaghetti, or Appetizers
  7. Discard the juices and fats cooked out of the meatballs. If allowed to cool, the foil can be wadded up and thrown away. Gluten Free, Low Carb Meatballs for Subs, Spaghetti, or Appetizers
  8. Add meatballs to the slow cooker and allow to cook several hours.

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