Low-Carb Meatball Subs

Ingredients

For the meatballs:

• 1 pound ground beef
• 1 clove garlic crushed
• 1/4 teaspoon dried basil
• 1/4 teaspoon dried oregano
• 1/4 teaspoon black pepper freshly ground
• 1/2 teaspoon salt

For the dough:

• 1 1/2 cup super fine almond flour
• 1 teaspoon xanthan gum
• 1/4 teaspoon salt
• 1/4 teaspoon dried oregano
• 2 teaspoons baking powder grain free and aluminum free
• 1 large egg
• 1 ounce cream cheese room temperature
• 2 cups finely grated, part-skim mozzarella cheese

For the assembly:

• 4 tablespoons spaghetti sauce (check the carb content)
• 4 slices provolone cheese cut in half
• 2 teaspoons fresh basil chopped (optional)
• 1 tablespoon grated or finely chopped provolone cheese (optional)

Instructions

For the meatballs:

• in an exceedingly medium bowl, combine the bottom beef, garlic, basil, oregano, pepper and salt. It's best to use clean hands for this. Divide the mixture into regarding sixteen equal parts. type every portion into a ball form

• Heat an oversized well-seasoned frying pan over medium-high heat. If you are doing not have a well-seasoned frying pan, or prefer to use meat with a low-fat content, you'll ought to spray the pan with copra oil before ensuing step.

• Add meatballs to the frying pan and cook on medium high. don't permit the meatballs to the touch. If your frying pan is simply too little to cook all of your meatballs while not touching, cook them in batches.

• Brown all sides of the meatballs, then flip the warmth to low and continue change of state till wiped out the center. take away meatballs to a plate and put aside.

For the dough:

• heat kitchen appliance to 375º physicist. Have 2 items of parchment paper, regarding twenty inches long, and a kitchen utensil out there. started a saucepan. A cooking pan with bowl that matches on prime works dead for this purpose. Fill the lower a part of the saucepan with 1-2 inches of water and place over high heat. Bring water to a boil, then communicate low heat to stay it stewing.

• within the bowl for the saucepan (not over heat), whisk along the almond flour, xanthan gum, salt, oregano, and leavening. Stir within the egg. Mixture can seem gritty. Stir within the cheese and also the cheese cheese. this may not mix with the remainder of the ingredients at this time.

• Place the bowl containing the mixture over the stewing water. Stir perpetually till cheese melts and also the mixture becomes dough-like. use caution to not burn yourself from the escaping steam or the recent bowl. i take advantage of a polymer kitchen appliance gloves to carry the bowl for this step.

• flip dough out onto one among the items of parchment. Knead many times to throughly combine the dough. Pat dough into an oblong form and canopy with the second sheet of parchment paper. Roll dough into a parallelogram regarding 10" X 14". Slide the parchment containing the dough onto a board. If necessary, trim off the rough edges employing a notched knife or a pizza pie cutter. Cut the dough in 0.5 crosswise, then in 0.5 lengthwise to make four equal sections.

• Slide the parchment containing the dough onto a cookware. On every section, place 2 halves of the provolone cheese, then prepare four meatballs lengthwise over prime. Spoon one tablespoon of pasta sauce over the the four meatballs on every parallelogram.

• Pinch the perimeters of the short sides along. Sprinkle with the extra basil and grated provolone, if using.

• Bake within the preheated kitchen appliance for 15-20 minutes.