How to replace breadcrumbs and flour in meatball recipes?

resander said:

Thank you all!
for letting me know the high-carb breadcrumbs and flour can be left out. I Googled and found 2 very similar Meatball Base Recipes. Will try one of these.
4 servings:

800g beef mince (or mixed beef 70% pork 30%)
half onion, finely chopped
half tsp salt
1 egg
50ml cream
half tsp white pepper
butter for frying


1kg beef mince (or mixed beef 70% pork 30%)
1 small onion, finely chopped
1 egg
1.5 tbsp mustard, coarse-grain and/or strong
2-3 tsp salt
black pepper (freshly ground best)
oil for frying

It is possible to add thyme, oregano, feta/normal cheese, parmesan, chilli, coriander etc to the mix too.

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Instead of breadcrumbs or flour I use fine almond flour. This works really well for my taste.

ZedZeeZet said:

hi, probably easier to follow the Oven tutorial, this one. If I am not not using the bread machine to bake the bread I have the oven at 180/ 200c and bake for 35 mins.
I now mainly use my bread machine just to do the mixing and rising for the dough then bake in the oven as I can get a longer loaf.
The recipe also works really well for making pizza bases and baguettes.
I think the bread machine has been my best buy ever

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Thank you sooooo much for that and the awesome video. As soon as I buy the gluten flour I will have a go. The Oat fibre is very expensive so I will use your suggestion of chia /flaxseed

I make a chia and quinoa bread but this one has got to be far lower carbs . At the moment I am having 2 Atkins crispbread at lunch which are very low carbs. Have had a heavy cold and my BS went up as usual (fasting well over 7) and it is just going back down again (fasting 6.4) !! Other than that my carbs are homemade muesli in the morning and fruit with lunch and evening meal. I rarely need to snack and if I do it is full fat cheese or nuts/nut butter. I do eat a square or 2 of 90-100% chocolate a day!!

Do they sell pork rinds in the UK?

I don't just bread or flour or eggs in meatballs - just mix the meat well with herbs/spices/seasoning and squeeze it well before rolling so it keeps its shape.

Other than that, a small amount of coconut flour or milled flaxseed works well in place of flour to thicken or bind food. And you can roll things in ground almonds or coconut flour before frying.

Jollymon said:

Do they sell pork rinds in the UK?

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We have the unusually British name, Pork Scratchings, here.
(And no, I don't know why!)

nomoredonuts said:

We have the unusually British name, Pork Scratchings, here.
(And no, I don't know why!)

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They may help with the texture of adding breadcrumbs, without the carbs of breadcrumbs.