These meatballs are a must for your Halloween party! Not only are they fun, they're super-moist and flavorful.
Ingredients
- spaghetti: 1 pack (8 ounce pack)
- Parmesan cheese: 0.5 cup (grated)
- panko bread crumbs: 0.33333 cup
- egg: 1 piece
- garlic: 2 clove (minced)
- parsley flakes: 1 tsp
- basil: 1 tsp (dried)
- oregano: 1 tsp (dried)
- lean ground beef: 1 pound
- olive oil: 1 Tbsp
- black olives: 8 piece (halved)
- stick string cheese, cut into 16 slices: 1 piece (1 ounce)
- spaghetti sauce: 1 jar (16 ounce jar)
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Stages of cooking
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Bring a large pot of lightly salted water to a boil. Cook spaghetti in the boiling water, stirring occasionally, until tender yet firm to the bite, about 12 minutes. Drain and set aside.
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Preheat the oven to 400 degrees F (200 degrees C).
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Whisk Parmesan cheese, bread crumbs, egg, garlic, parley, basil, and oregano together in a large mixing bowl. Fold in ground beef and mix with your hands until blended. Form 16 equal-sized meatballs using a cookie scoop.
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Heat olive oil in a large skillet over medium-high heat. Brown meatballs for 3 minutes on each side. Transfer cooked meatballs to a baking sheet using tongs.
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Bake browned meatballs in the oven for 8 minutes.
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While meatballs bake, use a plastic straw to punch a hole through each olive half to create a circular "pupil." Use the same straw to punch a hole through the center of each string cheese slice. Insert the round olive piece inside the hole in the string cheese slice to create "eyes."
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Remove meatballs from oven and let cool until safe to handle.
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Assemble zombie eyes by twirling a few strands of cooked spaghetti around each of 16 forks. Spear a meatball onto each fork and arrange forks on a serving platter. Spoon a dot of spaghetti sauce onto each meatball where you want to place the "eyes." Apply the olive-cheese "eye" over the sauce. Spoon remaining spaghetti sauce over the twirled spaghetti on the forks.
