Italian Sausage Balls and Parmesean Rice

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Italian Sausage Meatballs and Parmesean Rice

Ingredients:

1 pound ground Italian sausage

1/2 cup seasoned bread crumbs

1/4 cup unbleached white flour

2 cups shredded cheese

1/4 onion, chopped

2 tsp garlic powder

2 tsp dried basil

1/2 pound uncooked brown rice

1 stick butter, melted

1/2 cup parmesean cheese

Preheat oven to 375 degrees. In a large bowl combine the ground sausage, bread crumbs, flour, shredded cheese, chopped onion 2 tsp garlic powder and dried basil. Mix through with your hands. Form into one inch balls and place on cookie sheet. Bake for 12-14 minutes. Cook rice according to package directions ahead of time. While sausage balls are baking, melt butter in small saucepan and add paremsean cheese and spices. Pour over rice and mix thoroughly. If rice does not seem moist enough, add a little good extra virgin olive oil. If you have any leftover parsley, give some a rough chop and stir into the rice. For extra flavor, chop an apple into small chunks and add to the butter when it is melting, then mix with rice as butter is poured over. You can make these spicy meatballs buy getting hot pork sausage instead of Italian, and put some chopped jalepeno peppers, chili powder and/or cayenne in the mix instead of garlic and basil. All depends on what spices you prefer. This should make 36 one inch meatballs, or less if you make them bigger.

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