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Mini Meatball Sliders With Canned Biscuits Recipe

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Mini Meatball Sliders With Canned Biscuits Ingredients:

You can get the full list of ingredients with measurements in the recipe card below.

• Frozen meatballs – I use the Italian seasoned meatballs because it adds a little more flavor without you having to do anything. You could use plant-based meatballs to make these vegetarian.
• Canned biscuits – The homestyle biscuits, not the flaky biscuits, work best. I use the butter biscuits to give this a little more flavor, but you can use the original.
• Marinara sauce – Any brand of marinara sauce works. You can also use homemade if you have that handy.
• Mozzarella cheese – Use a block of mozzarella cheese that you shred yourself because that will melt. Pre-shredded, bagged mozzarella cheese has preservatives on it, which keeps it from clumping in the bag, which is good, but it also doesn’t melt well, which is bad.
• Parmesan cheese – Because every meatball sub needs a sprinkle of Parmesan cheese.
• Butter – We use unsalted butter to brush on the biscuits for the final bake to give them a really great flavor. Because the frozen meatballs and jarred sauce already have enough salt, we don’t recommend salted butter.
• Garlic – Fresh garlic gets grated into the butter mixture you brush onto the biscuits. If you only have garlic powder, you could use that too.
• Seasoning – You’ll need onion powder and Italian seasoning for the garlic butter, plus a little extra seasoning to sprinkle on the top as garnish.

How To Make Mini Meatball Sliders With Canned Biscuits:

We use frozen meatballs that are defrosted when we make this.

So, the night before you want to make these sliders, put the bag of frozen meatballs into the fridge to defrost overnight.

Quick note: Those meatballs are meant to be baked from frozen, though, so you may be able to do this with frozen meatballs. I just haven’t tried it.

Preheat the oven to 350 F.

Spray a muffin pan with cooking spray.

You could use butter if you wanted, but cooking spray is a little bit easier.

Open the canned biscuits.

Cut each biscuit in half. This will give you 16 total biscuits.

Form a circle from the canned biscuit. Then, flatten it a little and put it into one of the cavities of the muffin pan.

You can figure out the easiest way to do this however, if you want a little help, what I do is I take the two points from the cut ends and put them together

Then, squish the cut portion to form a circle.

Push down on the center to stretch it and create sides that go up the walls of the muffin cavity.

Continue until each biscuit piece is in the muffin tin.

You’ll need two muffin trays.

Scoop about a teaspoon of marinara sauce into the bottom of the muffin cup.

You don’t really want the marinara to go up the side of the biscuit because it could leak out and burn while these are baking.

Put a frozen meatball in each of the muffin cavities on top of the marinara sauce.

Bake for 15 minutes.

While that bakes, we’re going to quickly make some garlic butter.

Put the butter in a microwave safe bowl.

Microwave for about 45 seconds until it’s completely melted.

Grate in the garlic cloves.

We use a microplane grater for this and it works so well. If you don’t have one, you can chop the garlic instead. Just make sure it’s as small as you can chop it.

Add in the seasoning and stir.

Set aside.

After 15 minutes, remove the muffin pans from the oven.

Push the meatball down a little bit into the partially-baked biscuit.

Pour the garlic butter around the edges of the sliders.

Quick note: You may want to skip the garlic butter, just to make the recipe easier. But, the garlic butter adds extra moisture to the biscuits, assuring that they won’t dry out when they’re put back into the oven.

Sprinkle some of the mozzarella cheese on top of each meatball.

Sprinkle a little bit of the Parmesan cheese on each of them.

Put the trays back into the oven and bake for an additional 10 minutes until the mozzarella cheese is melted and the biscuits are a golden brown.

Sprinkle them with a little bit of dry Italian seasoning for garnish.

You can serve this with extra marinara sauce for dipping or just serve it as is.

When we have these for dinner, we serve them with a side of leftover pasta and a green salad to make it feel like a complete meal.

Mini Meatball Sliders: Frequently Asked Questions

More Recipes Using Frozen Meatballs:

This recipe uses about a third of a bag of frozen meatballs, so if you’re looking for ideas to use up the rest, try our sweet-and-spicy jelly meatballs.

We have a version of that you can make in the slow cooker or that you can make on the stove.