People are always asking me for recipe ideas for people who can’t eat eggs. Welp, here ya go. Breakfast meatballs. No eggs. No nuts. Just happiness. And for you people who do love nuts, I paired it next to Steve’s Original PaleoKrunch Cereal. It’s stupid good. Like, seriously.
Getting back to reality can be hard sometimes. Especially when it includes a 4am alarm clock with a 10 degree welcoming temperature outside. I was impressed my little oh-so-wanted civic even started. Well really, I was just impressed it wasn’t stolen in the few days I was gone. Must have been too cold to want to steal cars. She has a rough time getting through the winters, that civic of mine. It makes sounds that definitely aren’t normal and likes to sputter a bit when I start it. She’s funny. Always testing my patience.
Anywho, yesterday was a tough day. Probably because I was hauling around an extra ten pounds or so. So not only did my clothes fit a bit on the uncomfortable side, but I was sluggish AND didn’t get hungry until night. Those are some of the signs that show you ate too much. And too many weird things. My body doesn’t love the French fries and cheese sauce that ended up on my plate a few too many times over the weekend. F*cking cheese fries.
So thankfully, when I was ready to leave the gym in the morning, I had Jason there to talk me into an extra workout. But first visual this. I had woken up at 4am that morning, after getting about 4 or 5 hours of sleep and could barely apply my make up. So I was wearing sweatpants…the ones I wore to bed….and some baggy shirt to hide my weekend shame. Thankfully I put a bra on that morning, I was surprised I actually remembered to. So when Jason asked to workout, I was a bit worried. So I rolled my pants up as high as I could into shorts, tied them extra tight, and sucked it up. It looked like I was wearing a diaper. I don’t even want to know what I looked like while doing handstand push ups. But I got the little three rounder workout done, diaper and all, not as far behind Jason as I thought I would be. I was fueled by carbs. Meaning cheese fries.
The rest of my Monday was spent not eating, because I still wasn’t hungry. Making food that I didn’t eat. I literally didn’t eat until 7pm. That’s SO not me. Kinda creepy what sh*tty food does to us. And then I worked out more. I ran to the gym. Gross. I had to shoot so many snot rockets because it was so damn cold. No wonder I’m single. Whatever. I’m finally getting better at running, snot rockets and all. Then I did the workout. With front squats. Ew. But the best part was I didn’t have to run home in the quickly dropping temperature. Because Ryan, a wonderful guy from the gym, took me home. You know why he’s wonderful? Because he reads my blog, so I KNOW he’s cool. I trust people who read my blog. Well, most.
Are you wondering what I finally ate at 7pm? Of course you are. I ate these fantastic little meatballs. All meat should be in ball form.
Breakfast Bacon and Maple Meatballs
- Yield: 4 1x
Ingredients
- 1lb breakfast sausage
- 1 sweet potato
- 4oz button mushrooms (I used half a container of sliced button mushrooms)
- ½ yellow onion, peeled
- 2 tablespoonsmaple syrup
- 5–6 slices of bacon
- 1 garlic clove, minced
- salt and pepper, to taste
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 375 degrees.
- Place your bacon slices in a pan over medium heat. Cook on both sides until crispy, place on a paper towel to soak up the excess fat and cool, then dice up into small pieces that would fit well in meatballs. Duh.
- Place your sweet potato in a food processor with the shredding attachment. Shred your sweet potato, remove contents, then shred it once more. You want it pretty fine.
- Then shred your onion and mushrooms in the same container with the sweet potato that was shredded twice.
- Add your sweet potato, mushrooms, and yellow onion to a bowl along with your breakfast sausage, maple syrup, garlic clove, diced bacon, and salt and pepper and mix well. Your hands are your best tools.
- Place parchment paper on a baking sheet then start making your meatballs.
- What is helpful is using anice cream scoopso they are all the same size. Roll the scooped out balls in your hands and place on a baking sheet. Repeat until all your ingredients are gone.
- Bake for 30-35 minutes until meatballs are golden brown and completely cooked through. Be sure to check one before you turn the oven off!
- Pair your breakfast meatballs with Steve’s PaleoKrunch Cereal and some almond milk!
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Instead of going through the hassle of the double shredding, can you bake the sweet potato in advance and mash them? It would still give the flavor and binding qualities wouldn’t it?
that might work, it may just make it a little mushy.
I just made teeny tiny ones for my kids and larger ones for the hubby and I, perfect at any size, yum!
I just made these and they are fantastic! I put everything into my Ninja blender since I don’t have a food processor and it was great since this calls for a fine shred. When I mixed everything together it was very wet, so I added a bit of coconut flour to bind it, which worked. Also dusted my hands with some when I was shaping the meatballs. Anyway, these are great and the recipe made a TON of bite-sized goodness. Thank you Juli!
Hi Juli, I made something similar last night. My metrics are different from yours so just convert 🙂
500g lean pork mince
1 apple, peeled, cored and grated
1 whole egg
few grinds of garlic flakes
salt and pepper to taste
3 sprinkles of mixed spice (Don’t know what your equivalent is, but its ground cloves, nutmeg, cinnamon, aniseed etc, pumpkin spice?)
Mix all together (the consistency is quite soft but still pliable. Shape burger patties and cook in about 1T coconut oil. Et voila!
The apple is just the right flavour to compliment the yummy pork.
PS I love you for your nut free banana loaf 3 ways. I love you for that man
OMG. Best.Meatball.Ever
I made these AND OMG is right! I love your blog and your style 🙂 you’re awesome. Thank you for sharing your experiences and amazing recipes.
Made this today and love them! They have a much lighter feel than regular meatballs. I’ve been struggling to find paleo friendly portable breakfasts that don’t contain eggs and I think this one might be a winner! Thanks for sharing the recipe with us.
Embarking on AutoImmune Paleo and found your site! Excited to make meatballs but – Question: can’t do maple syrup for AIP, coconut flakes? Or do you (or anyone else here) have a suggestion? No sugar stuff allowed, at all, even stevia, on AIP. Perhaps just eliminate it all together? Thanks for the humor and the recipes! Making my life shifts a lot easier :0)
you could just remove the maple syrup
Cheers to no longer choosing between sausage or bacon, now it’s sausage AND bacon. Whoever wrote that stupid commercial about and being better than or was right.
Could you make a big batch of these then freeze them?
i’m sure you could, haven’t tried though!