Equipment
- Large Baking Sheet Very important to use a baking sheet with a lip all around. This recipe causes a lot of liquid when cooking and using a flat pan with no edges will be a huge mess in your oven.
- Kitchen Scissors Or food processor/chopper if you have one
Ingredients
- 1 lb Ground Beef
- 1/5 lb Bacon
- 1 lb Ground Pork
- 1 block Your Choice of Cheese We used a mix pepper jack and sharp cheddar
- 1/4 tsp black pepper
- 1/2 tsp salt
Instructions
- Place ground beef and ground pork in a bowl
- Using sharp kitchen shears cut the bacon into small pieces. The smaller the better. Another option is to put bacon in a food processor or chopper to ground it up. We didn't have access to that so we cut with scissors.
- Put bacon right in the bowl with the other meats.
- Add salt and pepper to mix. Another option is to use a Montreal steak seasoning of your choice. Or really any seasonings that you would like in your "burger".
- Mix all meats and seasoning thoroughly using your hands. It's kind of hard not to over stir but do your best to fold instead of squishing it all together. Do the best you can, it doesn't have to be perfect. Gloves are a really good idea to use during this step.
- Put bowl of meat in the refrigerator until you're ready for use.
- First you'll want to cut your cheese block into small pieces. Mine were a little smaller than an inch. closer to 3/4 inch.
- VERY IMPORTANT - Take your cheese and place it in the freezer. You'll want it close to being frozen to prevent it from melting too quickly.
- Once you're ready to assemble you'll want to pull your meat mixture from the refrigerator and the cheese from the freezer.
- This part gets messy so you can wear gloves or just use your hands. Take Meat and pull out about 2 tbsp of the meat mixture, flatten in your palm, and use the other hand to put a single cheese block in the middle of your flattened mixture.
- Then you'll want to carefully wrap the meat around the cheese making sure you don't have any gaps in the meat mixture.
- Place meatballs on an ungreased baking sheet. They don't need much space for baking because they shrink significantly during the cooking process.
- Once finished you can place the baking sheet into a 350 degrees preheated oven. We baked our meatballs for about 40 minutes. The trick with this step is to check it often and judge by how cooked the bacon is. Once the bacon is cooked to your preference the meatballs will be done.
- While the meatballs are cooking check periodically in case you need to drain some fat off the pan. We had to pull the tray about half way through and let some of that liquid off the pan. Some is totally fine, you just don't want to have it overflow from the side of the pan.
- Once meatballs are fully cooked you can use a spatula to put them on plates and then serve.
- This is a messy, fatty meal but absolutely perfect for anyone on the carnivore diet or even a low carb high fat diet.
- I sprinkled mine with flaky salt to taste afterwards and served with thousand island dressing (thousand island is not carnivore friendly FYI).
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