A simple & easy meatball recipe for your next game day party or tailgate. Bacon cheeseburger meatballs are a perfect finger food for football fans!
Bacon Cheeseburger Meatballs
Category: Appetizer, Party Food
A simple & easy meatball recipe for your next game day party or tailgate. Bacon cheeseburger meatballs are a perfect finger food for football fans!
- 1 pound ground beef
- ½ packet dry onion soup mix
- ½ cup bread crumbs
- 1 egg
- ¼ cup cooked bacon, chopped
- 5 mozzarella cheese sticks, each cut into 5 bite-sized ½ inch cubes
For the meatballs:
- 1 15-ounce can tomato sauce
- 1 teaspoon ground mustard
- 1 tablespoon Worcestershire Sauce
- ½ packet dry onion soup mix
For the sauce:
- In a large bowl, combine ground beef, onion soup mix, bread crumbs, egg and chopped bacon.
- Using your hands, work all the ingredients together until well mixed.
- Take one spoonful of ground beef mixture, flatten slightly, add a cheese cube and form the ground beef around the cheese cube into a ball. Make sure none of the cheese cube is showing. Repeat until all the ground beef mixture is used, and you have around 15 meatballs.
- For the sauce, in a large stock pot, combine the tomato sauce, ground mustard, Worcestershire Sauce and remaining ½ packet of dry onion soup mix. Whisk together.
- Add the meatballs, fitting into the pot so they are all covered in sauce.
- Heat to medium, bringing the sauce to a boil. Let boil for 5 minutes, then reduce heat to low, cover and simmer for 20 minutes, stirring occasionally.
- Remove from sauce and serve with cocktail forks or toothpicks.
