Get the Recipe: Skinny Cheddar Stuffed Meatballs
These five ingredient Cheddar Stuffed Meatballs are the low carb perfect appetizer or easy dinner recipe!
Ingredients
- 1 pound ground meat, beef, pork, turkey or chicken all work
- 1 1 ounce packet Hidden Valley ranch seasoning
- 1/2 cup bread crumbs, keto-friendly breadcrumbs linked below
- 1 egg, beaten
- 24 small cheddar cheese cubes, 3 cheese sticks cut into cubes
Equipment
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 400 degrees
- Spray a large cooking sheet with cooking spray and set aside.
- Mix the meat, seasoning, breadcrumbs (or pork rind panko), and egg together until it is completely combined.
- Working with about a spoonful of meatball mixture at a time pat it flat in your hand. Place a cheese cube inside and form a ball around the cheese.
- Squeeze the meatball a bit to make sure the cheese is totally enclosed.
- Lay evenly separated on the cookie sheet, bake 20- 25 minutes.
Air Fryer Instructions:
- Preheat the air fryer to 375 degrees F for 3 minutes. Add the meatballs in a single layer in the air fryer (this may require two batches depending on the size of your air fryer). Cook the meatballs for 5 minutes, flip and cook an additional 3-4 minutes until cooked through.
Notes
- Keto breadcrumbs: PORK RIND PANKO
- This recipe makes 6 servings (4 meatballs each). Each serving has 0.6 net carbs when made with pork rind panko.
Serving: 4 Cheddar Stuffed Meatballs (calculated with keto breadcumbs and ground pork as the meat), Calories: 282kcal, Carbohydrates: 0.6g, Protein: 19g, Fat: 22g, Trans Fat: 334g, Cholesterol: 100mg, Sugar: 0.2g
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