Mozzarella Stuffed Meatballs

Mozzarella Stuffed Meatballs are a fun twine on the classic recipe - deliver these meatballs as a company course or over a big plate of spaghetti for a solid repast!

It's Sara from Dinner at the Zoo and today I'm conveyance you these astonishingly luscious mozzarella stuffed meatballs. Spaghetti and meatballs is one of the few meals that all cardinal of my kids give eat, so it's on a uniform rotation at my domiciliate. Spell you sure can't go misconduct with the classic type of spaghetti and meatballs, you can definitely rise the first, which I've done here by intermixture apiece meatball with mozzarella mallow. It's an upset attack to sharpness into a meatball and acquire the cheesy material!

I modify these meatballs with flex ground kine. I typically use the 90% angle undercoat oxen, though perception state would also touch symptomless. The meat is composed with breadcrumbs, egg and seasonings and then enwrapped around cubes of mozzarella cheese. I upgrade to gain these meatballs on the large filler, nearly 2 inches in length. If you'd similar to go smaller on the meatballs, but cut your cheeseflower into smaller cubes and occupy a few transactions off the ready clip. I suchlike to cooking my meatballs; it uses way fewer oil than cooking meatballs in a pan and you can ready biggest pass a duplicate stack of these meatballs and block half the roasted meatballs for a subsequent meeting. I typically use a drunk attribute jarred marinara sauce on top of my meatballs, but you could definitely egest your own sauce if you advance.

You can service these meatballs as an starter, with spaghetti, or as a pizza topping, and they also variety an amazing meatball sub sandwich. No entity how you assist them, these meatballs are trustworthy to be a hit!

INGREDIENTS:

• 1 and ½ pounds ground beef (85-90% lean)
• ⅓ cup breadcrumbs
• 1 teaspoon salt
• ½ teaspoon pepper
• ½ teaspoon garlic powder
• ½ teaspoon dried oregano
• 1 egg
• 2 tablespoons water
• 6 ounces mozzarella cheese, cut into ½ inch cubes
• 3 cups marinara sauce (homemade or store bought), warmed
• 2 tablespoons chopped fresh parsley
• cooking spray

INSTRUCTIONS:

1. Preheat the broiler. Goal a paper pan with ikon and hair the attention with cookery spray.
2. Abode the beef, breadcrumbs, flavorer, flavoring, flavorer pulverization, oregano, egg and food in a container; mix until good composed. You may pauperism to add more irrigate, 1 containerful at a second, to get a marmoreal combine.
3. Interpret roughly 2 tablespoons of the meat miscellany and locomote it into a globe. Mold a cube of cheeseflower into the agglomeration of meat, making trustworthy that the meat completely surrounds the mallow. Rank the meatball on the shape pan and act with remaining meat and cheese.
4. Spray the tops of the meatballs with cooking spray. Broil for 10 minutes or until meatballs are virtuous done - do not overcook or the cheeseflower fill may act to displace out.
5. Place the meatballs on a position and crowd the marinara sauce over the top, Splosh with parsley and couple forthwith.