Meatball Subs on a Stick Appetizer
Meatball Subs on a Stick Appetizer
Perfect for Football Season & the Holidays
Ingredients
- 36 cubes mozzarella cheese
- 1 (13.8 oz) tube rectangular shaped pizza dough
- 12 wooden skewers
- marinara sauce (for dipping)
meatball ingredients
- 2 lbs ground beef
- 1/2 cup bread crumbs
- 2 large eggs
- 2 TBS parmesan cheese, shredded
- 1 TBS minced garlic
- 2 tsp Italian seasoning
- 1/4 tsp salt
- 1/4 tsp black pepper
- 2 TBS dried minced onion (or 1/2 medium yellow onion, diced)
garlic butter spread
- 1/4 cup butter, melted
- 1 TBS minced garlic
- 1 TBS dried parsley
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 375 degrees. Line 2 large sheet pans with parchment paper.
- In a large bowl, mix together meatball ingredients (ground beef, bread crumbs, eggs, parmesan cheese, garlic, Italian seasoning, salt, black pepper, & onion.
- Using a 1 1/2 inch cookie scoop place a mound of meat mixture into the palm of your hand and place a cube of mozzarella cheese into each meatball and roll firmly to seal cheese inside. Place meatballs stuffed with cheese onto one of the lined sheet pans.
- On a lightly floured work surface roll out pizza dough. Cut into 12 equal strips. You can either use store bought pizza dough in a tube or make your home made recipe.
- Take a skewer and insert one end through the dough strip. Place a meatball through the skewer. Wrap dough around top of meatball. Place another meatball on dough and do this until you have four meatballs wrapped in dough like a figure 8. Take remaining dough and wrap around meatballs on skewer and pinch together with dough at the start.
- Place dough wrapped meatballs onto the other lined sheet pan giving 1/4" space between skewered meatballs.
- Combine ingredients for garlic butter spread (butter, garlic & dried parsley). Using a pastry brush, spread mixture over the skewers.
- Bake for 20 minutes until meatballs are cooked through and dough is golden brown. Top with additional shredded parmesan cheese. Serve up with favorite marinara sauce.