Mozzarella stuffed meatballs in slow cooker Repeat with remaining meat and cubes. Add meatballs in single, loosely spaced layer in slow cooker. Cover with pasta sauce, stack more meatballs in second layer.

Ingredients of Mozzarella stuffed meatballs in slow cooker

  1. Prepare of low moisture mozzarella cheese.
  2. You need of ground beef.
  3. It's of hot Italian sausage.
  4. It's of garlic powder.
  5. You need of salt.
  6. It's of black pepper.
  7. It's of bread crumbs.
  8. Prepare of parmesan cheese.
  9. Prepare of eggs.
  10. You need of whole milk.
  11. It's of chopped parsley.
  12. You need of tomato sauce.

Mozzarella stuffed meatballs in slow cooker instructions

  1. Cut low moisture mozzarella cheese into 3/4 inch cubes cubes. Store in refrigerator while preparing the meat..
  2. Roll golf ball sized balls with the meat mixture. Squish mozzarella cube into the center and pull the edges of the meat ball around it until it’s a new ball again..
  3. Lightly brown meatballs in a small pan. You're not trying to cook them, just get the outside hard so they don't fall apart so easily in the slow cooker..
  4. Arrange meatballs in slow cooker and cover in tomato sauce..
  5. Cook on high for 2 to 2.5 hours..

Carefully place the meatballs into your slow cooker. Cook the pasta according to the package directions. Insert a piece of the fresh mozzarella into the hole and close the hole by pushing the meatball mixture around it to secure the mozzarella inside each ball. Heat a large saute pan over medium heat and drizzle olive oil into it. Add meatballs and cook until just browned.

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