Meat Lovers Two Bite Muffins aka... meatball on steroids!

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Meat Lovers Two Bite Muffins
aka... meatball on steroids!


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This recipe is basically a meatball on steroids.


The recipe is OK, but really needs to be served with a brown gravy or better yet a marinara sauce.


I topped some with mozzarella and some were served plain with brown gravy,



Play around with this recipe and find a combination you like.


You can just make these as meatballs and serve in a chafing dish with a gravy.


I just had a few today at work for lunch, I think they are better the next day.





  • A1 Sauce
  • 1 chub of hot Italian sausage
  • 2 pounds 80/20 ground beef
  • 1 small onion
  • 1/3rd pound of bacon
  • 1/4 cup of pepperoni
  • Cheese (optional)




Serving options:


  • Brown gravy
  • Marinara sauce


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Jimmy Dean hot sausage and 80/20 ground beef.


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Cook the bacon, pour off extra grease grease, cook the pepperoni, add the onions and brown.


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Cooked ingredients cooling.


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Add the A1 Sauce to the meat


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Then add the cooled cooked ingredients and mix, try not to over mix, just work everything in.


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Roll into balls, place in a greased mini muffin pan, flatten tops then dimple the center.


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Fry test.


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On the smoker at 275°


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Coming along nicely, at this point there was a lot of liquid in the muffin pan, the muffins were actually starting to float. I just tilted the pan to the side and poured out some of the excess liquid.


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Cheese cubed and ready for topping, this is mozzarella. I did have some German Beer cheese to top the muffins with, but I tasted the cheese and it was nasty... that's pretty bad coming from me, I will eat almost anything.


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We'll let that cheese melt about 10 minutes or so.


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Time to remove the muffins, Take note here, if you don't cheese the tops, I would remove the muffins from the pan and place them individually on the grates once they are fairly firm... about an hour in should be fine.


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While the cheese is still hot, you may want to tuck the cheese in a bit or remove right away and let the cheese drape over the side.


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No cheese ready for gravy.


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Gravy added.


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Money Shot


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Topped with cheese, money shot.


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Side by side. I removed the toothpicks from the cheese muffins before serving.


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