Oven Baked Meatball Sandwiches Recipe

Oven Baked Meatball Sandwiches Recipe

Ingredients

• Sandwich rolls (cut with one side intact)
• Cooked Meatballs (your favorite recipe or frozen, pre-made meatballs)
• Pasta Sauce (homemade or jarred)
• Shredded Mozzarella Cheese

Instructions

1. Spray a baking sheet with cooking spray. Preheat oven to 400 degrees F.
2. Place your frozen cooked meatballs or homemade cooked meatballs in a large pot. Cover with your pasta sauce. Gently fold the meatballs with the sauce, Heat the meatballs and sauce on low-medium, stirring occasionally, until the meatballs are heated thoroughly.
3. Fill a roll with as many meatballs as you can fit (usually 4-5 meatballs, depends on size of meatballs and the size of the roll). Top with more pasta sauce from your pot. Place filled sandwich rolls closely on baking sheet. Top each sandwich with shredded mozzarella cheese.
4. Bake until cheese is melted, hot, and bubbly.

Chicken Parm Meatballs Recipe

Ingredients:

• 1 1/4 pounds minced chicken
• 2 tablespoons onion, chopped
• 1/2 cup Parmesan
• 1/2 cup breadcrumbs
• zest of 1/2 lemon
• 1 tablespoon parsley, chopped
• 1 minced  clove garlic
• 1 tsp fennel seeds
• 1 egg, whisked
• salt & pepper to taste
• 1 14-oz  canned pizza sauce
• 3 tablespoons olive oil
• 4 oz fresh mozzarella

Directions:

1. Preheat oven to 400 degrees with the wrack near the top.
2. Throw in all the ingredients – except for the last 3 – into a bowl, and mix well.
3. Make large balls with your hands, and arrange them on a foil sheet
4. Open the canned pizza sauce, and in bowl, mix 1 spoon of the sauce and 3 tsps olive oil.
5. Use a brush to rub the mixture on the meatballs.
6. Put in the oven and bake for 15 mins.
7. When ready, take out from the oven and add some pizza sauce to the meatballs.
8. Slice the cheese and place a slice on each meatball.
9. Turn heat on to highest, and insert the meatballs again for 3 to 5 mins for the cheese to toast.
10. Empty out can of sauce into a pot/pan and heat up.
11. Remove meatballs from oven and drop the heated sauce as the final touch before serving.
12. Throw into a bowl the following for a recommended, accompanying salad.

Chopped up shallots and Tuscan kale

Parmesan, olive oil, salt & pepper.