Italian Meatball Sliders & GIVEAWAY!

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When I think of meatballs, I think of labor intensive and time-consuming. However, that's not the case at all wtih this Herbed Turkey Meatballs recipe from McCormick.com. They came together quickly, baked up in less than 20 minutes, and tasted delicious!

I decided to make meatball sliders as a quick meal before heading out for my girls' volleyball games. My middle child loved these! I loved the fact that they were simple to prepare, flavorful, had a great texture (sometimes meatballs have a weird texture that I don't like), and they weren't greasy in the least...

See...almost no grease! I used a very lean ground beef (90/10) but the original recipe calls for ground turkey, which would also work great as I use turkey quite often. Even though the meat was very low in fat, the meatballs had a great flavor from the blend of spices.

I threw in some red pepper flakes for a few of the meatballs (not all, since I knew my kids would not like any heat!) The Herbed Turkey Meatballs (click for recipe) have a blend of basil, oregano, garlic, salt and pepper; combined with bread crumbs. I used plain Japanese Panko bread crumbs and spices by McCormick. I think next time I may reduce the garlic just a little, but that's just a personal preference - we aren't huge garlic fans. Meatballs can be used for any number of dishes, but since we were so short on time, I thought sliders would be a good option. I took a roll, split it, added a little pizza sauce, topped it with the meatballs and reduced fat mozzarella cheese, and baked for a few minutes - until the cheese was nice and melted.

YUM! I am definitely adding these to my "make again" list - I can see meatball subs, spaghetti and meatballs, meatball sub casserole, meatballs in sauce....all in our future :-) We enjoyed them so much, I made a video :-) I'm calling it the original 'Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs'. haha, enjoy my "movie"!

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