{"id":1552,"date":"2012-12-09T10:56:18","date_gmt":"2012-12-09T16:56:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kevskitchen.com\/?p=1552"},"modified":"2012-12-09T11:03:14","modified_gmt":"2012-12-09T17:03:14","slug":"bison-bites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kevskitchen.com\/?p=1552","title":{"rendered":"Bison Bites"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kevskitchen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/Bison-Bites.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1550\" title=\"Bison Bites\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kevskitchen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/Bison-Bites-300x224.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The relatively large proportion of green onions and cilantro to bison in these meatballs keeps them moist even though the fat content is very low. If you don&#8217;t have easy access to bison, try another protein such as ground chicken, turkey or pork. These were very tasty made with the bison I already had in the house, yet the spice combination just shouts for lamb.<\/p>\n<p>I served them on some greens that were handy and you could even make the greens the primary component to turn this into a tasty, Middle-Eastern inspired salad.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Time: 30 minutes<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Serves: 4<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Ingredients:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>1 pound ground bison<\/p>\n<p>4 green onions \u2013 finely chopped<\/p>\n<p>\u00bc cup cilantro \u2013 finely chopped<\/p>\n<p>2 cloves garlic &#8211; very finely chopped or crushed<\/p>\n<p>1 \u00bc teaspoons kosher salt<\/p>\n<p>\u00bd teaspoon paprika<\/p>\n<p>\u00bd teaspoon ground cumin<\/p>\n<p>\u00bc teaspoon ground cinnamon<\/p>\n<p>1 cup plain low-fat Greek yogurt<\/p>\n<p>3 radishes \u2013 finely chopped<\/p>\n<p>\u00bd cucumber \u2013 peeled, seeded and finely chopped<\/p>\n<p>2 tablespoons fresh baby dill \u2013 finely chopped<\/p>\n<p><strong>Preparation:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Preheat your oven to 425F.<\/p>\n<p>Place the bison, onions, cilantro, garlic, \u00be teaspoon of the salt, paprika, cumin and cinnamon in a bowl and mix with your hands just until everything is evenly blended.<\/p>\n<p>Form the bison mixture into sixteen equally sized balls, place on an oiled baking sheet and bake for twelve minutes.<\/p>\n<p>While the bison is cooking, make the sauce by stirring together the yogurt, radishes, cucumber, dill and remaining \u00bd teaspoon of salt.<\/p>\n<p>Once the meatballs have finished cooking, plate them topped with the sauce or with the sauce on the side for dipping.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kevskitchen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/Bison-Bites.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Get the PDF and nutrition info<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The relatively large proportion of green onions and cilantro to bison in these meatballs keeps them moist even though the fat content is very low.&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1550,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,14,10,9],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.kevskitchen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/Bison-Bites.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kevskitchen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1552"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kevskitchen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kevskitchen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kevskitchen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kevskitchen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1552"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.kevskitchen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1552\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1554,"href":"https:\/\/www.kevskitchen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1552\/revisions\/1554"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kevskitchen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1550"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kevskitchen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kevskitchen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kevskitchen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}