Meatball Eyeballs
Make these spooky-fun and scary-good Meatball Eyeballs for a Halloween party food everyone is going to love.
Ingredients
- 1 lb ground beef chicken, or turkey (we used chicken)
- ¼ Parmesan cheese
- ¼ cup pesto
- ¼ cup fresh chopped parsley
- Fresh basil leaves
- ¼ cup Italian-style breadcrumbs
- Red pepper flakes
- Salt and pepper
- 3 cups of marinara
- Black and green olives for eyeballs
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
- In a large mixing bowl, combine 1/4 cup parsley, 1/4 cup Italian-style breadcrumbs, 1/4 cup Parmesan cheese, and 1/4 cup pesto and the 1 lb. of ground meat.
- Mix ingredients thoroughly.
- Add fresh basil leaves and red pepper flakes to 3 cups marinara sauce. Stir.
- Cover the bottom of a baking pan with the marinara.
- Using your hands, roll 1 lb ground meat into meatballs.
- Using your thumb, make an indentation in the center of each meatball and place an olive in the center, forming an eyeball shape. Place olive side up in the marinara-coated pan.
- Cover and bake at 350 degrees for 20 minutes.