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Chili Cheese stuffed Meatballs

Prep Time: 1 day 40 minutes
Cook Time: 25 minutes
Servings: 12 Meatballs
My chili recipe all started with a really fun work Christmas party. I’ve been lucky enough to work for a lot of smaller businesses early in my career and honestly later in my career as well. We had our Christmas party at the owner's house and the theme of the party was a chili cookoff. At that point, I had never made chili but I looked up a bunch of recipes and chose ingredients from a bunch that I thought would make a chili that I would like to eat. I didn’t even come close to winning that day – I think it was rigged because the owner's mom won so… but it sparked my love for making chili.
I kept making it and there was a chili cookoff at our local bar one winter so I entered. It was my one and only time entering a chili cookoff and I won third! Granted the first place winner made more of a broccoli cheese soup with some chili spice but nevertheless, that win made it so my 3rd place chili was born! You're welcome.
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Ingredients

Meatballs

  • 1/2 lb ground beef
  • 1/2 lb Jimmy Dean’s Hot Sausage
  • 1 cup Italian style breadcrumbs
  • 2 eggs
  • 2 tsp chili powder
  • 2 tsp Ancho chili powder
  • 3 cloves garlic minced
  • salt & pepper to taste
  • 12 frozen chili bites – see recipe here
  • 12 frozen Velveta cheese cubes

3rd Place Chili Recipe

  • 2 lbs ground beef
  • 1 lb Jimmy Dean’s Hot Sausage
  • 2 can spicy chili beans
  • 1 can red kidney beans
  • 1 can fire roasted tomatoes
  • 1 can tomatoes with green chilies
  • 1 can green chilies
  • 1 can stewed tomatoes
  • 2 cans tomato sauce
  • 2 packets chili spice
  • 1 packet hot chili spice
  • 3 jalapenos diced
  • 1 orange pepper diced
  • 1 red pepper diced
  • 1 small onion diced
  • 1 heaping tbs of dark cocoa powder

Instructions

  • You can find the recipe for my 3rd Place Chili here
  • Start by adding the chili to the silicon molds and freezing it - the quickest I've had these freeze were four hours but I tend to have them freeze overnight.
  • Preheat the oven to 350 degrees Fahrenheit
  • Once you have some frozen chili pucks, combine ground meat, breadcrumbs, eggs, sautéed mushrooms and season to taste salt and pepper in a large bowl.
  • Take the meat mixture and flatten in your hand. Take one of the frozen chili pucks and place it in the middle if the flattened meat in your hand. Take one of the frozen Velveeta cheese cubes and place it in on top of the frozen chili puck. Gently wrap the meat around the cheese and roll into the shape of a ball.
  • Place your meatballs on a greased baking sheet. Bake for 25 mins.