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Healthy Home Economist / Archives / Recipes / Grassfed Recipes / Pork Recipes / Pastured Pork Meatballs Recipe

Pastured Pork Meatballs Recipe

by Sarah Pope / Affiliate Links ✔

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pork meatballs recipe, pastured pork recipesMy kids are in love with the pork meatballs I make with quality pastured meat I obtain from a local farm. This tasty, nutrient dense meat comes from happy pigs that are free to run around outside in the sunshine. Pastured pigs that are exposed to UVB rays produce lots of vitamin D which is stored in the lard. 

These happy hogs compare with the unfortunate and miserable animals from huge hog confinement operations known as CAFOs (Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations). Believe it or not, a single CAFO building housing confined pigs might hold 1,000 or more sows or 10,000 or more market hogs! These poor animals don’t even have enough room to turn around in most cases!

Do you want your pork to come from these animals?  I sure don’t!

There’s no way I want one red cent of my food dollars to go to the companies that treat animals this way not to mention that this type of industrialized farm is detrimental to the environment and the food produced from it will not compare with the nutrition from hogs living outside in the fresh air and sunlight.

Marinated Pastured Pork Meatballs

When you make the effort to obtain truly pastured meat from happy hogs to make pork meatballs, you will be delighted to discover very little seasoning is required as the taste is fabulous and rich all on its own.

These pastured pork meatballs can be served alone with veggies cooked in butter (my usual way) or can be used for that occasional bowl of spaghetti and meatballs if you desire.  Another idea is to slice them in half, add a homemade pizza sauce, melt some cheese on top and serve on sourdough buns.

Leftover pork meatballs are great to pack in lunchboxes the next day too. My problem is that most of the pork meatballs are gone so fast I don’t have hardly any leftovers.  I had to practically arm wrestle my teenager to snap the picture above before all the meatballs were gone from the baking pan!

Enjoy this ground pork recipe? Try this recipe for breakfast sausage too.

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Marinated Pork Meatballs Recipe

This recipe for pastured pork meatballs is marinated for optimum digestibility as practiced by traditional cultures.

Prep Time 1 hour
Cook Time 40 minutes
Total Time 1 hour 40 minutes
Servings 30 meatballs
Author Sarah Pope

Ingredients

  • 1 lb pastured ground pork
  • 1 egg
  • 2 crusts sourdough or sprouted bread
  • 1/4 cup soy sauce preferably unpasteurized and traditionally brewed
  • 1/2 tsp sea salt
  • 1/4 tsp pepper

Marinade

  • 1/2 cup lemon juice
  • 1/2 cup liquid whey strained either from clabbered milk, yogurt or kefir

Instructions

  1. Marinate ground pork in lemon juice/liquid whey mixture in a glass bowl uncovered in the refrigerator for 1 hour. Dry the meat thoroughly with paper towels or a clean dishcloth.

  2. Place dried out bread crusts in a food processor and pulse until you have evenly sized breadcrumbs.

  3. Place marinated ground pork in a bowl and mix in bread crumbs and egg with your hands. Add sea salt, pepper and soy sauce and mix again.

  4. Form meatballs with your hands slightly smaller than the size of a ping pong ball. Place meatballs on a stainless steel baking pan or a glass baking dish and bake on 350 F/177 C until browned and thoroughly cooked (about 40 minutes).

  5. Serve immediately.

  6. Refrigerate leftovers and reheat as desired.

Sarah, The Healthy Home Economist

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Sarah Pope

Sarah Pope MGA has been a Health and Nutrition Educator since 2002. She is a summa cum laude graduate in Economics from Furman University and holds a Master’s degree from the University of Pennsylvania.

She is the author of three books: Amazon #1 bestseller Get Your Fats Straight, Traditional Remedies for Modern Families, and Living Green in an Artificial World.

Her four eBooks Good Diet…Bad Diet, Real Food Fermentation, Ketonomics, and Ancestrally Inspired Dairy-Free Recipes are available for complimentary download via Healthy Home Plus.

Her mission is dedicated to helping families effectively incorporate the principles of ancestral diets within the modern household. She is a sought after lecturer around the world for conferences, summits, and podcasts.

Sarah was awarded Activist of the Year in 2010 at the International Wise Traditions Conference, subsequently serving on the Board of Directors of the nutrition nonprofit the Weston A. Price Foundation for seven years.

Her work has been covered by numerous independent and major media including USA Today, ABC, and NBC among many others.

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  1. Maritza

    Jun 18, 2025 at 3:34 pm

    Would you be able to tell me if you add pork liver to these meatballs does the pork liver need to be soaked?Thanks.

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    • Sarah Pope

      Jun 19, 2025 at 9:12 am

      Yes it does.

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