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Monday, April 13, 2009

Mama mia, that's a meatball!

Happy Easter - one day late! What a great weekend it was. To bad the pain of income tax has to follow so closely to rub out the happy thoughts in my head :-( Grrrr.
I made several new things but today I'll share my meatball sub recipe. It was sloppy but it was yummy, you might need a bib.


Meatball Sub

* 1/4 cup chopped green onion
* 2 tablespoons Italian seasoned bread crumbs
* 2 tablespoons grated Parmesan cheese (the powder stuff)
* 1 1/4 pounds lean ground beef
* 6 - 8 French roll buns or hogie buns
* 4 ounces cream cheese, softened
* 1/4 cup mayonnaise
* 1/2 teaspoon Italian seasoning
* Dash pepper
* 1 cup shredded part-skim mozzarella cheese, divided
* 1 can or jar spaghetti sauce


DIRECTIONS

In a small bowl, combine the onion, bread crumbs and Parmesan cheese. Add beef and mix well. Shape into 1-in. balls; brown in a skillet until no longer pink; drain.
Meanwhile, combine the cream cheese, mayonnaise, Italian seasoning and pepper; spread on buns. Sprinkle with half of the mozzarella cheese.
In a skillet, combine the spaghetti sauce, and meatballs. Cook just until warmed through and be careful that it doesn't spatter on you. Spaghetti sauce is notorious for doing that! Serve about 3 meatballs on a bun with the desired amount of sauce. Sprinkle with remaining mozzarella. You could brown this under the broiler now, but I found that the sauce started to make the buns soggy so I recommend that you dig right in!

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