This is totally a boy food. Although, like many boy foods, girls secretly like them too. I love making these for David after church on sundays while he’s watching the Lions play. They are pictured with store-bought buns, which are sometimes yummier, but homemade can be prettier. Well, I’d like to get good enough at bread making that the homemade ones are both tastier and prettier. Does your husband also love food like this?
CHEESY STUFFED MEATBALL SLIDERS
Makes 12 sliders
1 and 1/2 pounds ground beef
1 egg
2 tablespoons olive oil
8 ounces mozzarella, shredded
4 garlic cloves, minced
1 tablespoon basil
1 tablespoon parsley
1/2 cup panko
1/4 cup bacon pieces
4 ounces pepper jack cheese, sliced into 12 cubes
24 ounces tomato sauce
12 slider buns
Salt & pepper
Preheat oven to 400 degrees. In a large bowl, combine beef, egg, olive oil, 6 ounces mozzarella, garlic, basil, parsley, panko, bacon pieces, and salt & pepper.
Form meat into 12 meatballs by rolling into a round ball, then flattening to wrap one of the cubed cheeses around it.
Arrange meatballs in a 9×13 glass baking dish. Pour tomato sauce over meatballs.
Bake for 30 minutes. When 5 minutes remain, sprinkle with remaining mozzarella. Serve on slider buns.
- 1 and ½ pounds ground beef
- 1 egg
- 2 tablespoons olive oil
- 8 ounces mozzarella, shredded
- 4 garlic cloves, minced
- 1 tablespoon basil
- 1 tablespoon parsley
- ½ cup panko
- ¼ cup bacon pieces
- 4 ounces pepper jack cheese, sliced into 12 cubes
- 24 ounces tomato sauce
- 12 slider buns
- Salt & pepper
- Preheat oven to 400 degrees.
- In a large bowl, combine beef, egg, olive oil, 6 ounces mozzarella, garlic, basil, parsley, panko, bacon pieces, and salt & pepper.
- Form meat into 12 meatballs by rolling into a round ball, then flattening to wrap one of the cubed cheeses around it.
- Arrange meatballs in a 9x13 glass baking dish. Pour tomato sauce over meatballs.
- Bake for 30 minutes.
- When 5 minutes remain, sprinkle with remaining mozzarella. Serve on slider buns.
Adapted from How Sweet It Is.
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