30 Minute, Gluten-Free Meatball Recipe

A 30-minute, weeknight dinner, this easy, gluten-free meatball recipe is perfect for busy nights. These dairy-free meatballs are tender, simple, and flavorful. Furthermore, they're topped with a sticky, homemade teriyaki sauce!

Keeping dinnertime staple is kind of my whole life jam. No one wants to hear "what's for dinner tonight" at 4:30pm.

So, as a Certified Nutrition Coach, I rely on easy, healthy, 30-minute dinner recipes to survive.

And gluten-free meatballs are a house favorite!

Made in under thirty minutes and easy to customize, these gluten-free meatballs are the perfect dinner solution.

Ingredients You'll Need

Gluten-free meatballs are obviously a switch up from the norm because it doesn't use bread crumbs! Nonetheless, it's super easy and you probably have all the ingredients you need (especially if you have a well stocked, gluten-free pantry).

Lean Ground Beef: opt for lean so that you don't have as much grease run off.

Potato Starch: this is what replaces the bread crumbs. Potato starch will absorb the grease and hold the gluten-free meatballs together.

Fresh Garlic & Ginger: add some fresh, delicious flavor to the recipe and the base to any good stir fry- even this gluten-free Thai crispy chicken.

Soy Sauce: double check that you have a gluten-free soy sauce (many actually contain wheat!!) or use Tamari in its place.

Coconut Palm Sugar: this is for the homemade teriyaki sauce to add a bit of sweetness to the meatballs.

These grape jelly and chili sauce meatballs are another tasty option that skips the breadcrumbs!

How To Make Gluten-Free Meatballs & Homemade Teriyaki Sauce

1. Combine all the ingredients for the gluten-free meatballs into a bowl.
2. Use your hands to mix everything together well.
3. Portion the meatballs with your hands and lay them on a raised baking sheet. Bake until cooked through.
4. While the gluten-free meatballs are baking, make the homemade teriyaki sauce.
5. In a small pot combine all ingredients except arrowroot powder.
6. Bring to a rolling boil and whisk in the arrowroot powder until no clumps remain.
7. Reduce and simmer until it thickens.
8. Serve over rice with a side of veggies!

Making The Dairy-Free Meatballs Into A Meal

This gluten-free meatballs recipe works well with just about everything.

However, most commonly we use it to make meatball bowls. All you need to do is use a base (rice being the most common) and top it with the gluten-free meatballs, sauteed veggies (oven roasted veggies works well too!), and homemade teriyaki sauce!

Adding some pickled daikon is delicious too. 

This makes for a simple, dairy and gluten-free dinner recipe ready in just thirty minutes (just like this Dominican ground beef).

Need to make your dinner paleo (not just gluten-free)?

While the meatballs themselves are paleo (as is the teriyaki sauce, coconut sugar is paleo), obviously serving them on top of rice is not. However, there's an easy solution: cauliflower rice!

Cauliflower rice is a super simple way to not only get more veggies into your diet. Likewise, it also helps to lighten the carb load on a dish. I use cauliflower rice the most when making Buddha bowls but it works as a side dish too.

Plus, aside from grating the cauliflower, it's a really simple recipe (six ingredients and that includes salt and pepper).

A Hack To Cook Gluten-Free Meatballs (No Grease!)

The biggest meatball hack you'll ever learn silicone pyramid baking mat.

You can see in the video that I use a red silicone mat for these gluten-free meatballs.

After years of cooking meatballs either directly on the pan (in which they sit in the grease- ew) or having to pre-cook the grease off before baking them, my mom got me this mat.

And it was a game-changer.

It allows the grease from the dairy-free meatballs to drain off so they're not sitting in it. Furthermore, it's silicone so super easy to clean. Honestly, it's been one of the things I use most in the kitchen!

Important Teaching Tips

• Make sure to double check your soy sauce to confirm it's gluten-free.
• If you don't want a puddle of grease stuck to the bottom of your meatballs silicone pyramid baking mat.
• Serve the meatballs on top of rice, spaghetti squash, cauloflower rice, or even salad!
• The homemade teriyaki sauce tastes best freshly made. Though you can put it in the fridge, it ends to turn into a gel-like substance. It also works just as a dipping sauce for something like air fryer meatballs.
• In pla ce of ground beef, you should be able to make gluten-free turkey meatballs if that's your thing.
• These meatballs haven't been made with gluten-free bread crumbs, so I can't comment on that as a substitution.

Frequently Asked Questions About Gluten-Free Meatballs

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These teriyaki meatball bowls are simple, wholesome, and full of flavor. Plus, they're a great choice for a weeknight meal (just like this one-pot chicken alfredo) and you can even prep the meatballs ahead of time!

Full of tasty ingredients and perfectly filling these teriyaki meatball bowls are a great addition to your recipe collection!