Meatballs can be made into awesome sandwiches, or put in a nice marinara for an Italian pasta, or glaze it with a teriyaki sauce, or just simmering it in your favorite broth with vegetables to pour over rice. For people with hypertension or high blood pressure, keeping any meal tasty may be difficult if you are used to pouring stuff with salt or purchasing pre made meatballs with sodium preservatives.
By using simple ready bottled dried herbs and spices, you can create a fantastic tasting meatball dish for everyone in your household to enjoy, by practicing eating saltless foods, you'll get used to it, in fact you'll soon realize that foods without salt has a personality all its own, I know what you're thinking, "Man I can't eat a piece of chicken without salt, it'll taste like cardboard." No, it does not taste like cardboard, chicken...tastes like chicken, salt just enhances the flavors, but really, try eating things without salt, you will notice that foods will taste a certain way that is alien to you, but with practice, you'll forego that table salt shaker for other condiments like organic vinegars, spiced powders and herb powders and different store branded condiments that are ready made and healthy.
So here is just one version of a LOW SODIUM MEATBALLS
1 1/2 lbs. of ground beef
1 small onion minced use 1/2 cup
1/4 cup of minced green onions
1 tsp. minced parsley
1 egg beaten
1 tbsp. curry powder
1 tsp. chili powder
1 tsp. onion powder
2 tbsp. low sodium steak sauce
3/4 cup of bread crumbs
Preheat oven to 375 deg. f.
1. Mix all of the ingredients together very well.
2. Form meatballs about 11/2 inch round.
3. Place on a greased baking sheet.
4. Bake for about 25 minutes.
5. Reserve the juices from the sheet.
Place meatballs in a semi deep dish.
Place juice from meatballs into a small sauce pan, heat to medium high.
Add 1/2 cup of red wine, simmer to reduce to about 1/4 cup, place in a ramekin, use as a dip for meatballs.
*It is easy to cook healthy, in this event I'm looking for low sodium, hence I'll cook regularly with one exception, I'm not using any salt, or any high sodium ingredients. If you love any kind of food, cook it, but leave out the salt. Below is a list of ingredients you may want to try to enhance some of your cookings for a hypertension/high blood pressure diet.
Onion powder
Garlic powder
Organic vinegars
Fresh squeezed juices from citrus
Soy sauce that is mixed with 3/4 water
Fish sauce that is mixed with 3/4 water
Olive oil
Fresh ground peppers of different varieties
Minced nuts
Fresh cooked beans
Nutritional yeast
Spike brand seasonings
Mrs. Dash brand seasonings
Also check in your area for healthy cooking classes, you may find a healthy chef doing a live demonstration at the local college or churches, go online and join social media like Facebook, Twitter, and others and connect with other foodies. Write your own blog, keep a journal of your healthy eating or cooking progress.
Remember that the less bad stuff you eat, the less chances you'll get sick. Most doctors are instructed to prescribe medicines for you because it is tied into the pharmaceutical companies and the clinics or hospitals you are attending, despite these medications benefit to help you lower blood pressure, there is nothing more safe and works well, than eating properly to avoid any ailment to begin with and to have sufficient exercise each day to get your blood circulating.
By using simple ready bottled dried herbs and spices, you can create a fantastic tasting meatball dish for everyone in your household to enjoy, by practicing eating saltless foods, you'll get used to it, in fact you'll soon realize that foods without salt has a personality all its own, I know what you're thinking, "Man I can't eat a piece of chicken without salt, it'll taste like cardboard." No, it does not taste like cardboard, chicken...tastes like chicken, salt just enhances the flavors, but really, try eating things without salt, you will notice that foods will taste a certain way that is alien to you, but with practice, you'll forego that table salt shaker for other condiments like organic vinegars, spiced powders and herb powders and different store branded condiments that are ready made and healthy.
So here is just one version of a LOW SODIUM MEATBALLS
1 1/2 lbs. of ground beef
1 small onion minced use 1/2 cup
1/4 cup of minced green onions
1 tsp. minced parsley
1 egg beaten
1 tbsp. curry powder
1 tsp. chili powder
1 tsp. onion powder
2 tbsp. low sodium steak sauce
3/4 cup of bread crumbs
Preheat oven to 375 deg. f.
1. Mix all of the ingredients together very well.
2. Form meatballs about 11/2 inch round.
3. Place on a greased baking sheet.
4. Bake for about 25 minutes.
5. Reserve the juices from the sheet.
Place meatballs in a semi deep dish.
Place juice from meatballs into a small sauce pan, heat to medium high.
Add 1/2 cup of red wine, simmer to reduce to about 1/4 cup, place in a ramekin, use as a dip for meatballs.
*It is easy to cook healthy, in this event I'm looking for low sodium, hence I'll cook regularly with one exception, I'm not using any salt, or any high sodium ingredients. If you love any kind of food, cook it, but leave out the salt. Below is a list of ingredients you may want to try to enhance some of your cookings for a hypertension/high blood pressure diet.
Onion powder
Garlic powder
Organic vinegars
Fresh squeezed juices from citrus
Soy sauce that is mixed with 3/4 water
Fish sauce that is mixed with 3/4 water
Olive oil
Fresh ground peppers of different varieties
Minced nuts
Fresh cooked beans
Nutritional yeast
Spike brand seasonings
Mrs. Dash brand seasonings
Also check in your area for healthy cooking classes, you may find a healthy chef doing a live demonstration at the local college or churches, go online and join social media like Facebook, Twitter, and others and connect with other foodies. Write your own blog, keep a journal of your healthy eating or cooking progress.
Remember that the less bad stuff you eat, the less chances you'll get sick. Most doctors are instructed to prescribe medicines for you because it is tied into the pharmaceutical companies and the clinics or hospitals you are attending, despite these medications benefit to help you lower blood pressure, there is nothing more safe and works well, than eating properly to avoid any ailment to begin with and to have sufficient exercise each day to get your blood circulating.
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