Baked Spaghetti and Tiny Meatballs
The kids and entire family will love my baked tiny meatballs and stuffed cheesy bread recipe. It's the perfect time-saving recipe for those after-school dinners during the busy back-to-school rush.
Servings 4 people
Ingredients
For baked tiny meatballs and spaghetti
- 1 lb Hatfield meats ground pork
- 1 cup breadcrumbs
- 1/3 cup freshly chopped parsley
- 1/4 cup grated parmesan cheese
- 1 large egg
- 1 tbsp olive oil
- Salt, pepper, onion powder, garlic powder, Italian seasoning about 1 tsp each or according to taste
- 1/2 lb spahgetti noodles
- 1 cup mozarella cheese, shredded
- 1 jar store bought spaghetti sauce
- 1/2 cup All purpose flour
Instructions
- Heat oven to 400 degrees
- Cook noodles according to package in structions and set aside
- In a bowl, combine the ground meat with an egg, breadcrumbs, fresh parsley, salt, pepper, onion powder, garlic powder, Italian seasoning and parmesean cheese
- Use your hands to mix everthing together until fully incorporated
- Pinch off about 1 tbsp worth of the meat mixture at a time and roll into individual tiny meatballs, you can go smaller if you want to make them really small
- Once meatballs are formed, gently dust them in some all purpse flour being sure to remove any excess
- To a cast iron skillet on medium heat, add some olive oil and pan sear the meatballs until golden brown all around being sure not to crowd the pan
- Remove meatballs from pan and add pasta sauce to warm through, combine meatballs with sauce and add cooked noodles
- Add a handful of moarella cheese and mix well
- To a baking dish, add about 5 yeast rolls and then add spaghetti and meatballs to the side
- Top with cheese and bake at 400 degrees until the top of the spahgetti is golden brown and yeast rolls are full cooked, about 12-14 minutes
Notes
Cheese stuffed yeast rolls were made with this recipe. I added shredded mozzarella cheese to the center to make it a cheesy bread, that's optional.
If you don't want to make the yeast rolls from scratch, hack it by using the Pillsbury biscuits and adding cheese to the center, and then baking! You can also buy frozen yeast dinner rolls and do the same thing.
Optional but you can reserve a bit of the ground meat to use crumbled in your pasta sauce, I prefer this method. Just cook it up and then add your pasta sauce to the pan, then combine with meatballs and cheese.