The recipe below is the turducken of meatballs: bacon is wrapped around an onion, which contains a meatball, which itself is stuffed with ooey-gooey mozzarella cheese! A delicious recipe that's sure to impress your friends.
You'll want to choose large, relatively uniform onions for this recipe: since the onions will form the shell of the meatball, they should be as round and as large as possible.
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Giant Onion Meatballs
4
5 minutes
40 minutes
45 minutes
1 pound ground beef
1 egg
1/2 cup seasoned breadcrumbs
2 large onions
4 1-ounce cubes mozzarella cheese
1 pound bacon
1/2 cup barbecue sauce
Preheat the oven to 425 degrees.
Combine the beef, egg, and breadcrumbs in a bowl. Section into four equal portions.
Halve and peel the onions, and remove the root and tip ends. Peel off the two outer layers of the onions; reserve the rest for another use. Keep the onion layer halves together so that you don't mix them up.
Carefully stuff one onion half with half of a portion of meat mixture. Place a cube of cheese in the center, then mound the rest of the meat on top, to make a meatball. Press the matching onion layer onto the other side, so that your meatball is wrapped in onion.
Do the same for all of the meat and onions.
Wrap each meatball with three slices of bacon. Use toothpicks to secure it.
Bake the meatballs for 40-45 minutes. Brush with barbecue sauce, bake an additional 5 minutes, and remove from the oven. Remove the toothpicks and allow to cool at least 10 minutes before serving.
