Pumpkin Meatballs with a Pumpkin-Spiced Sauce
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Serves: 8
 
A fall-inspired meal, full of warm pumpkin and spice flavors.
Ingredients
Pumpkin Meatballs
  • 1.25 pounds extra lean/lean ground turkey
  • ½ cups pumpkin
  • ⅓ cups gluten-free oats
  • ½ teaspoon cinnamon
  • ¼ teaspoon nutmeg
  • sea salt to taste
Pumpkin-Spiced Sauce
  • 2 cups pumpkin
  • 2 cups unsweetened vanilla almond milk (you can use more or less depending on how you want your sauce)
  • 1 tablespoon coconut flour
  • cinnamon to taste
  • pumpkin pie spice to taste
  • sea salt to taste
  • 2 tablespoons raw honey
Instructions
  1. Preheat the oven to 400 degrees.
  2. Mix all meatball ingredients together by hand in a bowl.
  3. Cover an oven-safe pan with tinfoil and lightly coat with olive oil.
  4. Form the meat mixture into meatballs and place on the pan (I made ours big enough to form 12 meatballs).
  5. Bake for about 25-30 minutes (mine took 28 minutes).
  6. While the meatballs are cooking, prepare the pumpkin-spiced sauce.
  7. Add all pumpkin-spiced sauce ingredients (except for 1 cup of the milk) to a pan.
  8. Heat the sauce on low; stir very frequently.
  9. Continue to add more milk, depending on how thin you want your sauce (I used the full 2 cups).
  10. Serve the pumpkin meatballs with pumpkin-spiced sauce warm.
Notes
Optional: Prepare rice, quinoa or other pasta as well to use as a "bed" for the pumpkin meatballs with pumpkin-spiced sauce. I used plain white rice because I didn't want any flavors to compete with the main meal. The white rice worked perfectly!
Recipe by A Gutsy Girl® at https://agutsygirl.com/2012/09/18/pumpkin-meatballs-with-a-pumpkin-spiced-sauce/