Healthy Lamb Meatballs recipe

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Ingredients

1 pound ground lamb, or more to taste
½ cup shredded cabbage, or more to taste
⅓ cup diced onion
1 egg
1 ¼ tablespoons ground allspice
1 tablespoon freshly ground cardamom
¼ teaspoon ground turmeric
¼ teaspoon ground sumac
salt and ground black pepper to taste

Nutrition Info

255.6 calories
carbohydrate: 4 g
cholesterol: 122.4 mg
fat: 16.9 g
fiber: 1.3 g
protein: 21.4 g
saturatedFat: 6.8 g
servingSize: -
sodium: 123.4 mg
sugar: 0.8 g
transFat: : -
unsaturatedFat: : -

Directions

  1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C).

  2. Boil lamb in a pot of water, breaking into small chunks with a spoon, until fully cooked, 5 to 10 minutes. Skim fat from water using a spoon and drain water from meat.

  3. Mix cooked lamb, cabbage, onion, egg, allspice, cardamom, turmeric, sumac, salt, and pepper together in bowl, roll into 1 1/2-inch balls. Arrange meatballs on a baking sheet.

  4. Bake in the preheated oven until meatballs are cooked through and browned on the outside, 25 to 30 minutes.

Recipe Yield

4 servings

Recipe Note

Lamb is usually a pretty fatty meat (with none of the good fats!). So I made up this recipe to satisfy my husband's cravings for lamb. Not only are they fast and easy, they are healthy and freeze well too. I serve this with rice and lentils (in rice cooker) with yogurt.

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