Serves: 4

Ingredients

1 pound ground game-elk or venison
6 slices of bacon cooked until crisp
1/2 white onion
2 cloves garlic
1 egg

Directions

Pre heat oven to 350.
I mention using a food processor but you can just chop everything by hand, just make sure it's chopped very fine.
In a food processor add your white onion and garlic and pulse a few times. Then break up your cooked bacon and pulse again. Add your ground meat pulse, add egg, pulse until combined well. If meat is warm or room temperature then place in the fridge for a few minutes. Using your hands make 5 large meatballs the size of baseballs or you can make 10 small golf ball sized meatballs. In a large skillet warm some oil and brown each side of the meatballs, place in a baking dish and bake for about 15 minutes in the oven. You may need to bake less or more depending on the size you choose to make.

Footnotes

You'll notice I didn't add any salt or pepper and for some reason it worked! This was a recipe made up by accident and I liked it so I'm now making sure to repeat the process whenever I make meatballs. The only thing I change from time to time is the amount of bacon because some of our ground game may have fat added, and some of it has no fat at all. In that case I use more bacon. This recipe was created with ground elk with 7% fat.