Maple-Glazed Breakfast Meatballs
Stephanie Wise
Created May 7, 2015
Wow your brunch guests with savory-sweet breakfast meatballs.
Maple-Glazed Breakfast Meatballs
- Prep Time 20 min
- Total 30 min
- Servings 6
- Ingredients 12
Ingredients
Meatballs
- 1 slice whole wheat bread, toasted, crushed to fine crumbs in food processor
- 1 lb ground pork
- 1/2 cup finely chopped tart-sweet apple (Pink Lady or Honeycrisp)
- 2 teaspoons chopped fresh sage leaves
- 3/4 teaspoon fennel seed, crushed
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1/4 teaspoon pepper
- 1 egg
- 1 shallot, finely chopped
Glaze
- 1/4 cup apple butter
- 1/4 cup real maple syrup
- 1 tablespoon Dijon mustard
Instructions
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Step1Heat oven to 400° F. Line a rimmed cookie sheet with foil; spray with cooking spray.
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Step2In large bowl, stir Meatball ingredients with wooden spoon or your hands until well combined. Shape mixture into 36 to 40 (1-inch) meatballs; place 1 inch apart on cookie sheet.
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Step3Bake about 10 minutes or until no longer pink in center (160° F).
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Step4Meanwhile, in small bowl, stir Glaze ingredients until well combined.
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Step5Brush meatballs with half of the glaze; bake 3 minutes longer. Drizzle remaining glaze over meatballs just before serving.
Nutrition
250
Calories
12g
Total Fat
16g
Protein
19g
Total Carbohydrate
15g
Sugars
Nutrition Facts
Serving Size: 1 Serving
- Calories
- 250
- Calories from Fat
- 110
- Total Fat
- 12g
- 19%
- Saturated Fat
- 4g
- 21%
- Trans Fat
- 0g
- Cholesterol
- 80mg
- 27%
- Sodium
- 340mg
- 14%
- Potassium
- 290mg
- 8%
- Total Carbohydrate
- 19g
- 6%
- Dietary Fiber
- 1g
- 5%
- Sugars
- 15g
- Protein
- 16g
% Daily Value*:
- Vitamin A
- 0%
- 0%
- Vitamin C
- 0%
- 0%
- Calcium
- 4%
- 4%
- Iron
- 6%
- 6%
Exchanges:
1/2 Starch; 0 Fruit; 1 Other Carbohydrate; 0 Skim Milk; 0 Low-Fat Milk; 0 Milk; 0 Vegetable; 0 Very Lean Meat; 2 Lean Meat; 0 High-Fat Meat; 1 Fat;Carbohydrate Choice
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