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Pork and beef meatballs stuffed with melty, gooey mozzarella, swimming in a rich tomato sauce makes for a filling weeknight meal! Spoon the meatballs into a bowl with sauce, serve over pasta, or layer them onto a sub for a delectable meatball sandwich. Easy Slow Cooker Mozzarella-Stuffed Meatballs And Sauce. They meatballs will cook in the sauce a bit as well.
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To begin with this recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can cook mozzarella stuffed meatballs in tomato sauce using 13 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make Mozzarella stuffed meatballs in tomato sauce:
- Get 1 medium onion, chopped
- Make ready 4 cloves garlic
- Prepare 3 slices white bread
- Make ready 500 g ground beef/pork blend
- Make ready 150 g pizza mozzarella
- Take 1 tbsp tomato paste
- Prepare 1-660 ml bottle passata (or crushed tomatoes)
- Get 1 tsp dried basil
- Prepare 1 tsp dried oregano
- Prepare 1 tsp garlic powder
- Take 1/2 tsp onion powder
- Take 1 tbsp sugar
- Take Fresh Italian parsley for garnish
Place under a preheated grill until the cheese has. Addictive, juicy, flavorful Italian style meatballs stuffed with rich gooey mozzarella cheese. Great served on their own in your next gatherings or over pasta for a comforting meal. These mozzarella stuffed meatballs are what dreams are made of!
Steps to make Mozzarella stuffed meatballs in tomato sauce:
- Pulse the onion and garlic in a food processor until very finely minced.
- Wet the bread with a few tbsp water, then wring out as much liquid as you can. Tear the bread into small pieces, into a mixing bowl.
- Add the minced onion and garlic, ground meat, a few large pinches of salt and several grinds of black pepper to the mixing bowl. Knead the mixture together, just until combined. Don't overmix or the meat will toughen.
- Cut the mozzarella into cubes about double the size of peas. Grab a heap tbsp of meat mix and flatten it to about 1/2 cm thickness with your palms. Put a cube of cheese in the centre, then fold the meat around it until enclosed. Roll the meatball in your hands until it's nice and round, then lay it onto a parchment lined tray. Repeat until there's no more meat. You should be able to make about 15 meatballs. Place the tray of meatballs in the fridge for 30 minutes.
- Preheat your oven to 400 F. Transfer the meatballs to a second baking sheet that's been lightly greased. Bake them for 20 minutes. While waiting, get started on the sauce.
- Add a splash of olive oil to a large pan on medium-high heat. Add the tomato paste and let fry for 2 - 3 minutes. Pour in the passata, then stir in the basil, oregano, garlic powder, onion powder, and sugar. Bring to a simmer and drop the heat to medium-low.
- Pull the meatballs from the oven. Before transferring them to the sauce, give the sauce a taste and adjust the seasoning. Also, if the sauce looks to be drying out, add a splash or two of water. Move the meatballs into the pan and nestle them into the sauce. Cover and let simmer a final 20 minutes. Serve with a sprinkle of parsley.
Great served on their own in your next gatherings or over pasta for a comforting meal. These mozzarella stuffed meatballs are what dreams are made of! Anything that's stuffed with cheese is an immediate win in my book. I typically use marinara sauce to go over top, but you could certainly serve plain or with a homemade tomato sauce. Squish mozzarella cube into the center and pull the edges of the meat ball around it until it's a new ball again.
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