BBQ Meatballs with Pepper and Cheese Animal Cut-Outs
5.0
Ingredients
- Prep
- 45 min
- Cook
- 30 min
- Total
- 75 min
Instructions
- 1 Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C).
- 2 Soak pieces of torn bread in the milk in a bowl for 5 minutes. Gently squeeze out milk. Add beaten egg to the soaked bread and mix well.
- 3 Mix garlic powder, onion powder, parsley, salt, Italian herb seasoning, sugar, and Parmesan cheese together in a small bowl. Add to bread-egg mixture.
- 4 Place ground beef in a mixing bowl. Add seasoning mixture and onions; mix together with a fork. If mixture is too dry, add up to a tablespoon of milk. Roll into 25 meatballs and arrange on rimmed baking sheet.
- 5 Bake in preheated oven until browned and cooked through, about 18 minutes.
- 6 Drain meatballs on a paper towel. Remove grease from the baking sheet. Transfer meatballs back to the baking sheet. Drizzle 1 cup BBQ sauce over meatballs.
- 7 Return sheet to oven and bake 12 more minutes.
- 8 Use a small animal vegetable cutter to make animals out of green, orange, and red peppers. Cut animals out of Colby Jack and mild Cheddar cheese.
- 9 Drain meatballs on a paper towel and add more BBQ sauce if desired. Add cheese animal cut-out and then animal pepper cut-out to the toothpicks. Work quickly to add toothpick to each meatball.
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