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Mini-Meatball Sliders

Prep Time: • Total Time: • Servings: 12 Mom Rating:
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Young chefs love helping to shape these cheese-filled meatballs.
 

Dinner Recipes - Your kids can help you make these mini hamburgers

Young chefs love helping to shape these cheese-filled meatballs.
Ingredients

(Nutrition Information)

  • 2 tablespoons   vegetable oil
  • 1   egg, slightly beaten
  • 2 cups   Kellogg's® Rice Krispies® cereal
  • 1/4 teaspoon   salt
  • 1/4 teaspoon   pepper
  • 1/4 teaspoon   onion powder
  • 1 pound   lean ground beef
  • 2 sticks (1 oz. each)   mozzarella string cheese, cut into 12 bite-sized pieces
  • 12   small dinner rolls, split horizontally and toasted
  •    Ketchup, mustard, lettuce, tomato slices, pickles and/or relish
  • Why use Kellogg's® Rice Krispies®?
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    Why use Kellogg's® Rice Krispies®?

    As the first crisped rice cereal, Kellogg’s® Rice Krispies® has been bringing families together in the kitchen for over 80 years.

    To experience the timeless flavor, make your Rice Krispies Treats® squares with the original Rice Krispies® brand cereal.

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1. Line 15 x 10 x 1-inch baking pan with foil. Pour oil into pan. Tilt pan to coat bottom with oil. Set aside.

2. In large bowl combine egg, KELLOGG'S RICE KRISPIES cereal, salt, pepper and onion powder. Add ground beef; mix well. Divide into 12 equal portions. Shape into large meatballs.

3. Place meatballs on prepared pan. Push one cheese piece into center of each meatball, reshaping meatball to completely enclose cheese. Roll meatball to cover all sides with oil.

4. With adult help, bake at 350º F for 15 to 20 minutes or until meat is no longer pink. Serve meatballs in rolls. Top with ketchup (if desired).

Kid-friendly Kitchen Tips:
Children of all ages should have an adult assistant with them at all times when cooking.
1. All the kids will love to get their hands into the meatball mix, but over-mixing ground meat means tough meatballs. Give each chef a portion of the mix (after you have initially mixed it) and then let them form their very own mini meatballs.
2. Older kids will be able to help insert the cheese and reshape the meatballs.

I remember the first time my oldest son ate his first rice krispie treat, he was a little over six years old. He was a sick little boy from just a baby and was unable to digest foods, when he turned 6 he went through major surgerys so that he could finally eat. When he came home from the hospital he had to have mushy stuff, we tried everything, until we found vanilla rice krispies. Vanilla rice krispies quickly became the only thing he would eat that he didn't get pain from. So one day i decided to make krispie treats, it was a day i will never forget. He sat down beside me, grabbed a piece so big he could barely hold on to and smiled from ear to ear, he had never even tasted a marshmallow before, his eyes lite up and all he could do was smile. When he was done with what est managed to eat he looked up at me and said " your the best mommy in the world, only you could make me something this good". And all I could do was smile, trying not to cry.

Tracy, OH

Posted: 07-19-2009, 3:02 PM


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