Pork & Apple Meatballs

If you love apple sauce with your pork roast, you’ll love these little Pork & Apple Meatballs! The apples create a nice juicy burst of sweetness. We had these meatballs with homemade potato and sweet potato chips, broccoli and spinach. We had lots of leftover meatballs the day after, and my youngest (10yo) gobbled them up as little snacks throughout the day :) 

Ingredients:

• 1 kg pork mince
• 2 green apples peeled and finely diced
• 2 large garlic cloves, finely diced
• 1 onion, finely diced
• 1 tablespoons dried basil
• 1 teaspoon cinnamon
• 1 teaspoon sea salt

Instructions:

1. Preheat the oven to 215°. Prepare 2 x rimmed baking trays with baking paper.
2. Combine all of your spices into a large bowl.
3. Add in the ground pork. Using your hands, spread the spices onto all of the meat. Then, you can add in the diced apples, season with sea salt and combine thoroughly.
4. Create 30-40 meatballs (about 30 g). Spread them evenly on the baking tray.
5. Bake meatballs in the oven for 25-30 minutes until they appear golden brown.
6. Serve with your favourite side dish. I had mine with homemade potato and sweet potato chips & steamed broccoli & spinach. Enjoy!

Approved diets: Dairy-Free, Gluten-Free

Chris & Filipa Bellette are the Founders of multi award-winning health practice Chris & Filly Functional Medicine, which is best known for ending body burnout (for good!) in “busy” people with energy, mood and gut issues. They have worked with over 2,000+ burned-out clients in the past combined 25+ years, with their own passion for ending body burnout coming from their own personal experience of body, mind, family & business breakdown, after a prolonged period of physical and mental stress.

Filipa is an accredited Clinical Nutritionist, Functional Medicine Practitioner, Coach & Trauma Therapist. She is also a Ph.D. Scholar, author & regularly featured the media, such as Forbes, Body+Soul and The Daily Telegraph. Chris is a Burnout Recovery Coach & an accredited Neurolinguistic Programming (NLP) Master Practitioner, with a Bachelor of Human Movement Science. He has existed in high-performance realms of the sporting (think national athlete) & business industries and knows what it takes to get out of hustle-and-grind culture to thriving. 

They were recently awarded as the Tasmanian State Winner & National Finalist for the Telstra Best of Business Awards 2022, and Winner of the Australian Women’s Small Business Champion Awards 2022.