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Pork Meatballs with Apples, Onions + Toasted Walnuts

Ingredients

  • 1 cup walnuts,
  • 2 tablespoons butter
  • 1 onion
  • 2 small apples
  • 4 garlic cloves, minced
  • 2 pounds ground pork
  • 2 eggs
  • 2 teaspoons salt
  • 2 teaspoons thyme
  • 2 teaspoons nutmeg
  • 1 teaspoon black pepper
  • Juice from one lemon

Instructions

  1. Preheat oven to 400 degrees. Line a large baking sheet with parchment paper.

  2. Roughly chop onion and apple. Heat 2 tablespoons butter in a pan over medium high heat and add onion, apple and minced garlic. Cook until slightly softened and slightly caramelized.

  3. Remove onion, apple and garlic mixture to a bowl and let cool slightly.

  4. Add walnuts to the pan, and cook over medium high heat until toasted. Remove from pan and place walnuts in a food processor. Process until crumb like in texture. Remove and set aside.

  5. Add onion, apple and garlic mixture to the food processor and process until slightly pureed, but with chunks remaining.

  6. In a large bowl, mix together ground pork, eggs, salt, thyme, nutmeg, black pepper, lemon juice, walnuts and onion, apple and garlic mixture. Mix until well combined.

  7. Form meatballs and place on prepared baking sheet. Bake for 15 minutes at 400 degrees, or until internal temperature is almost at 160 degrees. Broil for 5 minutes to brown the top of the meatballs and to finish cooking.