It comes as no surprise that meatballs were declared “Dish of the Year” by Bon Appétit magazine – “with a return to homey, comforting cooking this year, meatballs made it big, appearing on restaurant menus and kitchen tables everywhere”. In fact, as a regular happy hour patron it seems that no restaurant menu seems complete without a slider of some sort – from Kobe beef sliders to pulled pork.
I recreated Meatball Sliders in the TM Kitchen after enjoying many restaurant versions and am sharing the recipe here because they’re affordable, easy to make, and you’d be hard-pressed to find a child or an adult who won’t inhale them – an ideal dish for the home cook!
Meatball Sliders
Meatball sliders are a crowd pleaser and baking, rather than them frying, uses less oil, creates less mess, and results in nice round meatballs!
Serves 4-6 (as a main dish)
Ingredients:
1/2 lb. ground pork
1/2 lb. ground beef
1/2 c. grated romano cheese
1 egg, lightly beaten
1/4 c. fresh bread crumbs
2 cloves garlic, pressed
1/4 c. Italian parsley, chopped
1/2 t. red pepper flakes
1 t. salt
1/2 t. ground pepper
1/2 c. Italian bread crumbs
15 small rolls
Prepared Marinara sauce
1/2 c. grated cheese
Preheat oven to 400 degrees F (375 if convection).
Directions:
In a large mixing bowl, combine the meats, cheese, egg, bread crumbs, garlic, parsley, pepper flakes, salt & pepper. Use fork or your hands to mix all ingredients well. Form into 15 2-inch meatballs. Roll them in the Italian bread crumbs. Spray cookie sheet with oil and bake meatballs for 20 minutes.
Meanwhile, split the rolls horizontally and lightly toast in toaster oven. Heat the marinara sauce in a small saucepan.
Serve meatballs on the rolls topped with marinara sauce and sprinkle with Romano cheese.
Enjoy 🙂
Must go to the store now, Patriots losing miserably to Baltimore and will have to find solace in food.
Alyssa
I just want you to know I hate you right now… I am going to make this for dinner for my husband and daughter who will love them PROBLEM I can not eat them because of this DUMB diet I started reason I hate you (lol) thanks because I have a picky 4yr old and she will love this!!!
admin
Wow, you scared me for a minute! My “intention” for this year is to not eat as much meat, but I didn’t box myself into a corner by saying “no meat” : ) Maybe eat a few with just the sauce….