Meatballs | Sauce + Green Beans| Oh My!

These are one of my absolute favorite dinners! It’s based off of an Ina Garten recipe and wicked easy. You can switch out the meat for whatever you have at home, don’t go out special and buy ground pork, it does however taste the yummiest! I’ve also excluded eggs and nuts from this because it doesn’t really need either. But go ahead and play around with the recipe

Ingredients:
- 1.5lbs lean ground pork
- 1.5 Medium Onion
- 3 Carrots
- 1 28 oz can crushed tomatoes
- Scallions
- Salt, Pepper, Cumin, Chili powder, Thyme, Oregano
- Frozen Green Beans
- Coconut Oil.

How To:
- Combine pork, 1/2 of a finely diced onion, salt, pepper, dash of cumin in a bowl… really mix them well together. Then in a pan that’s been heated with coconut oil, drop in your big ‘ol meatballs… I make them decently sized like a hamburger almost, but a bit more rounded. You could make them tiny… but that takes forever.
- Brown them on either side {like maybe 2 minutes}, they don’t have to be cooked through! While they’re browning I normally chop the rest of my onion and my carrots. When they’re browned, pull them out of the pan and put them on a plate and set them off to the side.
- Use a spatula to scrape the bottom, add my onions and carrots in. While those are going I add a smidge bit of apple cider vinegar in the pan, loosen the stuff on the bottom up a little.
- Add in salt, pepper, more cumin, and two shakes ish of the chili powder bottle, oregano and the thyme, mix it about, dump in your sauce. I stir it a bit and give it a taste, and add however much apple cider vinegar and extra spices are needed. I really like a tangy sauce, so I add in like 3 or 4 tablespoons, but you might not. Then nestle your meatballs back in, cover and let cook for a half hour on low {make sure you pour whatever drippings were on the pan into your sauce, and if any bits fell off….that’s a tong of yummy flavor!}.
- About 10 minutes before they’re done, I toss the green beans in {I don’t like them overly mushy}, recover and they’ll steam/ cook.
- Serve up, drizzle with some olive oil and top with scallions!

Enjoy!