Cheesy Stuffed Meatball Sliders.
Hello you perfect game day snack.
Or perfect dinner. Or perfect reheated I-just-came-home-from-the-bar snack. Or perfect hungover breakfast. Cold.
I love you.
And I don’t even really like meatballs. So this is, in a word… huge. But I love you since you’re stuck in an adorable little toasted bun and stuffed with double the cheese. You make me want to eat meatballs every day.
Meatballs and mini things. Lots of cute mini things.
I didn’t want to show you this creeptastic picture but I felt like I needed to tell you that it’s okay if your mozzarella oozes out of your meatballs.
This is what happens in my kitchen. Cakes overflow in the oven, cookies flatten out like pancakes, yeast doesn’t foam and cheese squirts out of meatballs. As dirty as it sounds, it’s real life and something like it happens every.single.day in my world. It makes a really good excuse to have an extra glass of wine.
Everything is always better in slider form, right? These meatballs are super quick to prepare and can be made in less than an hour. You can half the batch for dinner one night or triple them for your Monday Night Football party. They bring versatility to a whole new level and taste like a bite-sized version of spaghetti and meatballs… without the noodles? Yeah, sort of. Just whatever you do, don’t forget to invite me over.
Cheesy Stuffed Meatball Sliders
Ingredients
- 2 pounds lean ground beef
- 1 egg
- 2 tablespoons olive oil
- 2/3 cup romano cheese
- 4 garlic cloves, minced
- 2 teaspoons dried basil
- 2 teaspoons dried parsley
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1/2 teaspoon pepper
- 1/3 cup panko bread crumbs
- 4 ounces of mozzarella cheese, cut into cubes + more for topping
- 3 cups of your favorite pasta sauce
- 12-15 slider buns, or dinner rolls if you cannot find them
- basil for garnish/topping
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 400 degrees F.
- In a large bowl, add ground beef, egg, oil, cheese, breadcrumbs, garlic, salt, pepper, basil and parsley. Mix to combine, gently tossing a few times with your hands. Don’t overmix – it will result in tough meatballs! Spray a large baking dish with non-stick spray and add 2 cups of pasta sauce. Roll beef into golfball-sized meatballs (about 3 tablespoons of beef), and press a cube of mozzarella in the middle. Seal the beef around the chees and set in sauce. Once all meatballs have been added, sprinkle additional cheese and breadcrumbs over top. Bake for 30-35 minutes or until meatballs are cooked through. Serve with additional sauce if desired, toasted slider buns, and a few slabs of mozzarella for topping.
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I’ll bring the wine.
141 Comments on “Cheesy Stuffed Meatball Sliders.”
These would be fun to bring to a tailgate or game day get-together! Love that they’re stuffed with mozzarella…Yum!
LOVE stuffing my meatballs with mozzarella… love all things miniature… and love YOU. :) Happy Friday lady!
I think this and your pumpkin milkshake are the PERFECT treats to make myself this weekend while my boyfriend is out of town for work. Nothing like amazing food and a good movie to relax by yourself =D
these look phenomenal!
Oh my…these would be a huge hit in my house! I love the photo of the cheese oozing out! :-)
These look awesome. I’m gonna do a tomato soup with meatballs this weekend and I think this time they will have a piece of cheese stuck inside. Great idea!! Happy weekend everyone.
YES PLEASE! Love me some meatballs! Cheese stuffed? Pssht…a definite score!
I love meatballs. So cheese stuffed slider? This is a win. Forget about the football party, just give me these :)
YUM. These look SO tempting…I definitely need to make them sometime soon…so delicious! :)
I can think of sooo many captions for that creeptastic picture. ahahaha! These look delicious. You are ALL THAT, girrrl.
“Cheese squirts out of meatballs.” hahaha. I <3 that creepy pic, it just makes me want the meatballs more! You gotta show the good stuff.
oh my lordy! those meatballs, and that slider, look unreal!! we all know I love me some meat!!! yes pleeeeeeeeeeeease!!! :D
i love you! lol… just sayin’ :) (and im only on my second martini)
You had me at “cheesy!”
I’ve so made these before! I think my boyfriend goes nuts when he knows I’m making them; they are that good in the guy world. Not that I don’t love them too. ;)
Yummy! Going to make these to bring to next football gathering!
A bottle of Merlot please. These are the kind of yummies you sneak and eat more of when no one is watching.
Yowza!!
These little beauties are so perfect!
Thanks!
Holy goodness those look good. Now I’m hungry…
these.look.amazing.
My 16 year old son is going think he has died and gone to heaven when I make these for him.
You bring the the meatballs, I’ll bring the chocolate..gotta have balance, right? ;)
Awesome….you bring the wine and we’ll have a GREAT time. These look fantastic – thanks for making them!
Thanks so much for posting this recipe! My kids and I had it for dinner tonight. They were a hit!!!! Definitely a recipe to make again and I’m going to use the left over meatballs with spaghetti tomorrow night. I love that I am finding dishes to surprise and wow my husband with when he returns from this deployment. Thanks again!!!
Why have an ordinary burger when you could have several of these fabulous little sliders. They sound great, especially with the cheese oozing out.
Those look absolutely delicious! OMG… my mouth is watering. Now I know what we’re having for dinner tonight :) XOXO
That bitten-into-meatball photo made me say “ooooooh” out loud. Nicely done!
incredible . that is all .
Let me be creepy for just a second- sorry! We have the same hands! I’m not even kidding- I looked down at mine, then back at the picture- very strange observation. Ok.- Done :-P
I made these last night for some friends! They were super easy and incredibly delicious! Great recipe!
Dont worry, cheese squirts out of all our meatballs. lol. ;)
Going to make these next Saturday for game day!
Ooh, SO yummy!! This, my friend, is why I could never last as a vegetarian. :)
Made these this weekend and the family loved them!!! They were delicious!
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What a good idea to make these cheese filled meatballs and also make them into a slider. A perfect portion too (in multiples of course). Love this idea.
We made these tonight and they were delicious. Thanks for a great recipe!
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I’ve made something similar to these, but I use sausage and make the buns into garlic toast! Delicious:)
I made these for dinner on Sunday–my husband (and I) LOVED them. And I was hungry at 10:30 this morning and ate three meatballs as a snack…again, so good! He’s eating them for lunch for two days this week, too…I am totally making again. Thanks very much for sharing the great recipes!
I was just passing through and then I saw those cheese sliders! Oh my goodness. You really did it this time. That looked SO good.
I want a cheesy stuffed meatball slider RIGHT THIS SECOND. Mmmmmmmmmmmm!
So, last night was kinda a “big deal”. First night of having the BF’s parents in my house to cook for them. After shamelessly turning these helpless folks into better-than-crack-brownie-a-holics, I decided I would continue to peddle your recipes at them :) Made these with 1/2 spicy italian sausage, 1/2 ground beef…. so delicious and perfect heat! Then I served them on toasted pretzel roll sliders. And as if that wasn’t enough to satisfy, I also made your roasted red pepper penne. Best. Dinner. Ever. There were veggies served too – but those don’t REALLY count as you know. Anyways, you’re amazing! Thank you for helping me fill 8 hungry bellies and blowing the socks off the parents.
That sounds like an amazing dinner!
I made these last night for my husband and he loved them! The seasoning was perfect! I’ve been looking for a good meatball recipe, and this is it! And thanks for mentioning about not mixing too much… I have had that problem before and now I know why.
YUM! These look so good, I bet my hubby would love these, might have to make some next week!
Thanks for sharing!
Ooh! You’ve found a new way to make Jucy Lucys! Yummy!
I was totally thinking that when I bit in to them!!
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I made these the other night but halved the recipe and subbed in ground chicken (not a big beef eater). They. were. SOOOOOO. good! http://someotherbetty.wordpress.com/2011/10/02/mozz-stuffed-chicken-meatball-sliders/
I made these and they were delicious. I did not have panko so I crushed up a bunch of saltine crackers and they still tasted amazing! Love this!
@Jessica – I made these last night and used BBQ sauce instead of tomato sauce (hubby adores anything with BBQ sauce on it.) My question is this, when I made them once they were done cooking almost all of them had split open and the cheese was already running out. I made sure each meatball perfectly enclosed the cheese so I’m a little confused as to why they split open. Any ideas?? Def will be making this again soon :)
hmmm I’m honestly not sure – I always have 1 or 2 split open but never all of them. what % beef did you use? I’m just wondering if you used super lean, maybe it dried out a bit and they cracked? Or maybe the BBQ sauce didn’t have enough moisture in it and they cracked? Maybe next time try with a smaller chunk of cheese??
Could have been the meat was too lean and the cheese chunks were too big. I’ll try it with a slightly more fatty beef and smaller amounts of cheese next time. Thank you for the suggestions!!