cabbage-stuffed meatballs

2017-02-04

This takes the stuffed meatball idea one step further. Each patty weighs ½ lb., so these meatballs are fairly big. Use your favorite vegetable and/or fruit mix and stuff as much as you can fit in each patty.

INGREDIENTS

This is what you need for 4 servings:

2 lbs. ground meat
1 lb. bacon, sliced
1 mozzarella cheese stick, cut in 4
4 cabbage or lettuce leaves
½ cup each onion, cabbage, carrots, chopped fine
2 eggs ½ cup bread crumbs
S&P, spices
your favorite BBQ sauce

Pic1: cabbage-stuffed meatball, BBQ sauce

Directions

Pic2: stew
Pic3: fill
Pic4: stuff

Preheat the oven.
Sauté the finely chopped vegetables in some olive oil until soft. (Pic2)
Drain excess liquid.
Combine ground meat, eggs and bread crumbs in a mixing bowl.
Add S&P, spices to taste. Mix thoroughly.
Make 4 patties.
Place 2-4 tbsp. of these vegetables and 1 piece of cheese on a lettuce or cabbage leaf. (Pic3)
Place a cabbage leaf with vegetables on a patty. (Pic4)
Wrap the leaf around the vegetables.
Wrap the meat around the cabbage leaf and close the meatball.

Pic5: wrap
Pic6: pour
Pic7: bake

Wrap the bacon slices around the meatballs, place seam down in an ovenproof dish. (Pic5)
Pour some BBQ sauce over the meatballs. (Pic6)
Bake at 300 ºF for 60 minutes or at 350 ºF for 45 minutes.
Remove from the oven and rest 10 minutes. (Pic7)
Serve and enjoy.

See also: Deming, NM gardens, animals and more and avemariasongs.org

See also: Deming, NM gardens, animals and more
and avemariasongs.org