Mozzarella Stuffed Meatballs
What do you do with Mozzarella cheese sticks that nobody is eating? Well make Mozzarella stuffed meatballs of course! These were so much fun to make and they are cooked completely on top of the stove. Get the kids to help you make them, my granddaughter thought it was fun.
Ingredients
In a bowl add the ground beef, ground pork,
garlic, eggs, bread crumbs and seasonings.
Mix well with a large spoon or your hands.
Using a 2” ice cream scoop, make the
meatballs. Insert one piece of cheese into
the center of each meatball making sure to
completely seal the meat around the cheese.
In a deep skillet add about 1/2” of olive oil.
Heat the oil over medium high heat until
hot. Carefully add the meatballs and
cook until brown on the bottom.
Carefully turn them over and cook
the other side until brown.
Remove meatballs with a slotted spoon
and place them on a paper towel lined plate.
Place meatballs in a large enough skillet that
they don’t need to be stacked on top of each other.
Pour enough sauce on top to completely cover
the meatballs by at least 1”. Cook over medium
low heat, with a lid, until the meat is completely
cooked through. (Make sure you carefully move
the meatballs around as they cook or they will stick
and burn). Cooking will take about 20 – 30 minutes.
I did a taste test after 20 minutes and mine were done.
Serve as is with the sauce or like I
did on top of spaghetti. They would
also make a great meatball sub.
Mozzarella Stuffed Meatballs
http://www.InDianesKitchen.com
Ingredients
- 1# ground beef
- 1# ground pork
- 1 cup plain bread crumbs
- 1 tsp dried oregano
- 1 tsp dried basil
- 1 tsp Italian seasonings
- 1 tsp salt
- 1/2 tsp pepper
- 3 eggs, slightly whisked with a fork
- 2 cloves garlic, minced
- 5 Mozzarella cheese sticks, each one cut into 4 pieces
- olive oil (to fill skillet 1/2” deep)
- spaghetti or marinara sauce (about 70 oz.)
Directions
- In a large bowl add the ground beef, ground pork, garlic, eggs, bread crumbs and seasonings.
- Mix well with a large spoon or your hands.
- Using a 2” ice cream scoop, make 18 balls.
- Insert one piece of the cheese into the center of each meatball, sealing in the cheese tightly with the meat.
- Fill a deep skillet 1/2″ full of olive oil and heat over medium high heat until hot.
- Carefully place the meatballs in a single layer in the hot oil. Cook a few minutes until the bottom of the meatballs are brown. Turn the meatballs over and brown the other side.
- Remove meatballs to a paper towel lined plate.
- Place meatballs into a large deep pot. Pour enough spaghetti or marinara sauce on top to cover by at least 1”.
- Cook over medium low heat for 20 – 30 minutes until completely cooked through. Carefully move meatballs around in the sauce frequently so that they don’t stick.
- Serve as is, on top of spaghetti or as a meatball sub.
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Categories: Cheese, Eggs, Ground Beef, Pork/Ham, Sauces
What a great idea! However, if there were any mozzarella sticks in my house, they would be long gone before I could make these meatballs!😂
The school is giving out free lunches to all school age kids. Since we are sheltered in place with our grandkids (My daughter is a nurse) we have been picking up their lunches. They have given them cheese sticks in theIr lunches plus I bought a huge pack for me to eat. Thank you and have a great Sunday!
That’s great! I hope your grandkids are well!😊
Thank you they are!
Brilliant!👍
Mmm these look so good! Love the idea of stuffing with cheese – Danielle
It was a nice different taste from my regular meatballs. Thank you so much!
Wait! Ur getting ahead of me. Today’s the day I peel the PEI potatoes and chop up the onions and kholbasa (sp so bad) and pop in the oven. Take a break D! LOL Don’t you ever have leftovers from your meals every day? 🌷😊
We ate these for dinner and by lunch they were completely gone! All 18 meatballs 2” big!
Oh, God, you just made me so hungry
That’s nice to know…thank you!
Same here… 😅
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What brilliant use for our excessive cheese sticks (we bought way too many when pandemic stocking up lol) 😀
Thank you Tierney.🌷🌺🌹
I know that during the quarantine a lot of people are cooking more than usual. Thanks for giving us some great new recipes to try, and helping us to relieve the boredom. 😉
You are very welcome!!!! I’m trying to keep to ingredients people would normally have in there cupboards. I’m getting hungry for baked sweets and bread though…lol
Looks yummy! I’m going to have to try this!
Thank you Lisa they are so simple. Enjoy!
I printed it. One of my granddaughters might be coming in June for a week or so. She is going to be 9 and very creative, even in the kitchen. I think this will be a good one for us to do. I will let you know if she alters you’re recipe. 😊
Hahaha I hope she does! That means she will be a creative cook. Can’t wait to hear how they turn out.
I’ll let you know for sure. 😊
I have a ton of these cheese sticks in my refrigerator. I think I’ll use them up in meatballs! This recipe looks so good!
We love it but you can do this with any meatball recipe. This recipe really sealed in the cheese so it didn’t leak out.
Oh my gosh, sign me up for these!!
Oh yes you would love these. We devoured them all by lunch the next day! 🤣😂🤣
I’m sure!
This sounds like comfort food during a pandemic to me! Yum!
Absolutely!!!!😷😷😷
My grandkids would love this, thanks for the suggestion.
You’re welcome my 9 year old granddaughter loved helping.
Looks really, really good. 🙂
They really were, thank you so much!!!
These looks delicious. I’m going to have to try this.
They are so simple Christy!!!! I wanted to freeze some but the leftovers disappeared at lunch the next day🤣😂😂
Who does not like Mozzarella Cheese sticks first? These look yummy Diane!
Thank you Linda. They worked out perfect for this recipe.
I don’t think I’ve ever seen such perfectly round meatballs before! Mine always have flat bottoms 😞
I love using an ice cream scoop to make mine. I pack them tight which helps hold their shape. Thanks for stopping by Colleen.💕
Saw this on Instagram and liked it as well because it jogged my memory. My mother used to make these but she added salami with the cheese and served over spaghetti, childhood memories of food are wonderful. Thank you
Oh yum Barb! I bet they were delicious with salami!!!
Now that sounds great to me. Love Italian meals remind me of my five years in Rome
That is awesome Kevin!!! I bet you learned a lot of good recipes there!!!
In Rome they add herbs to the minced meat and I do to now. Gives that additional boost of full flavour
Yes I do too. I can’t wait for my fresh herbs from the garden.
Oh my that looks good !
Thanks so much!!!
What a DELICIOUS idea😋
Thank you!!
Whoa – my son would totally love this!
They must be a male kind of food. My 5 year old grandson and husband went crazy over these. I did my share of eating them too…lol
I can almost taste these just looking at them, yum!
Do you have a cookbook out in print, Diane?
I do not but I have been thinking about making one. Thank you Becky!!!
Such a great idea!
Thanks they really turned out great and were fun to make. You can use any recipe with the cheese sticks.
These look really good! I love homemade meatballs and will have to try these for sure!
Thank you! They tasted great and were so easy Laci…..enjoy!
If only your posts came with samples 🙂 I need to make these soon…
Now that would be awesome!
Oh my! It looks so good! 😋
Thank you they turned out delicious. I wanted to freeze some then I remembered the grandkids are living here! They were gone by lunch the next day…18 of them!
I guess are one of those foods that you can never have enough of 🤪
So true!!!
Thank you!
they look delicious!
They really were and fun to make, thank you so much!
I never knew that such a thing exists, and I never would’ve thought of this on my own. Such a brilliant idea. My kids would go ape!
My grandkids loved making them as much as they did eating them. Thank you
Yum. I’ve gotta remember this for sure.