Post From healthygut.com
Most of us know we should eat more 24-hour yogurt. After all, it’s one of the most powerful gut healing foods: each tablespoon of properly prepared yogurt contains 700 BILLION CFUs per cup.
That’s a lot of probiotics.
With that in mind, I challenged myself to come up with some new ways to eat 24-hour yogurt. (I also had a freezer full of ground meat from hunting over the fall and winter.) The result? Gut-Healing Greek Meatballs with 24-Hour Yogurt Tzatziki sauce.
This recipe sounds fancy, but even my kids ate it. (Maybe because they like anything you can dip!)
Making Your Own Meatballs
I love cooking (instead of baking), because with cooking you can sub stuff out easily without ruining the recipe.
Like if you don’t have fresh parsley, you can use dried. And if you don’t have dried? Just skip it entirely or sub some other herb. The recipe might taste a little different, but it will still turn out.
When I created this recipe, I built it around what I had on hand and what I can tolerate. That means this recipe is really versatile:
- Use whatever ground meat you have around or like best (just avoid extra-lean ground turkey or chicken, or the meatballs will be very dry!)
- Use fresh or dried herbs. If you’re using dried where fresh is called for, cut the amount in half. If using fresh when dried is call for, double the amount.
- If you don’t tolerate eggs, just omit the egg. The meatballs will still come together – they may just crumble a bit more. You could also add a gelatin egg, but it probably isn’t…