Recipe: Delicious Bacon and cheese meatballs

Bacon and cheese meatballs. Easy to prepare, simple ingredients and quick prep and cook time make these tasty morsels the exact fit for your menu plan! They are loaded with all of the flavors we love in a cheeseburger… ground beef, bacon, and cheese! But instead of a messy burger, it's a neat little meatball that you can eat in one bite!

In a large bowl, combine the ground beef, bread crumbs, cheese, eggs, bacon, onions and salt and pepper to taste. Mix thoroughly, by hand, until the ingredients are combined. Line a baking sheet with nonstick aluminum foil (or regular aluminum foil sprayed with nonstick spray). You can have Bacon and cheese meatballs using 9 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you cook that.

Ingredients of Bacon and cheese meatballs

1. You need 500 grams of mince.
2. You need 1 slice of bread (or more to make more / bigger meatballs).
3. It's 1 of milk (to cover bread with).
4. Prepare 1 tsp of salt.
5. You need 1 tsp of parsley.
6. It's 1 cup of cheese (any kind you like).
7. You need 250 grams of streaky bacon.
8. It's 8 of toothpicks.
9. You need 1 of oil (for frying).

Shape one beef portion around each cheese ball. In a shallow bowl, beat eggs for coating. Place cracker crumbs in another bowl. Heat oil in a large cast-iron or other heavy skillet over medium heat.

Bacon and cheese meatballs instructions

1. Preheat the oven to 180C..
2. Break the bread in big-ish pieces into a bowl. Cover with enough milk so the bread soaks up all the milk..
3. Place the mince in a seperate bowl and add the salt, parsley and cheese. Mix well..
4. Mash the bread with a fork to incorporate all the milk..
5. Add the bread mixture to the mince mixture and mix well..
6. Roll the mixture into balls and cover with bacon, secure with a toothpick..
7. Pour oil into an oven save dish and place the meatballs evenly in the dish. Bake in the oven for 20 - 30 minutes or until the bacon is crispy. (You can fry them on the stove top as well but I find that they break easily.).

Turn them over and top each with a slice of cheese. Remove from the heat, and top each meatball with a piece of bacon. For the Sauce: Combine ground beef, bread crumbs, onion, egg, Worcestershire sauce, steak seasoning, salt, and pepper in a bowl; mix until combined. Using a slotted spoon, transfer onion and bacon to a plate and cool in refrigerator. In a large bowl, combine steak, ground beef, cooled bacon and onions, cheese, eggs, bread crumbs and salt, and mix lightly but thoroughly by hand.