Taco Meatball Ring Appetizer
One of my all-time favorite Grilled appetizers! I have cooked the Taco Meatball Ring Appetizer on a grill, in a Dutch oven and in my Kitchen, this time we are grilling them on the Grill Dome Kamado style Grill. With this very simple recipe, you can have these baked and serve in under one hour. Nothing beats a grilled appetizer!
Go crazy, go wild and add your own unique flair to this! Make it Italian, Greek, South Western, you get the idea!
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Taco Meatball Ring Appetizer ingredients:
2 cups about 8 oz shredded cheddar cheese, divided
2 tbs. of water
2-4 tbs. of taco seasoning
½ lb ground beef or turkey
2 tubes (8 oz each) refrigerated crescent rolls
½ medium head of iceberg lettuce, shredded
1 medium tomato, chopped
4 green onions, sliced
½ cup ripe olives, sliced
2 jalapeno peppers, sliced
Sour cream and salsa (optional)
Recipe courtesy of Brenda Johnson of Davidson, Michigan via the Taste of Home magazine
Video Transcription:
Presenter:
Hey, everyone, today we’re revisiting a classic appetizer from cookingoutdoors.com, the Taco Meatball Ring on the Cooking Everything Outdoors show.Announcer:
The Cooking Everything Outdoors show is sponsored by Camp Chef and outdoorcooking.com and islandgrillstone.com.Presenter:
Before we get started cooking, let’s talk about some of the equipment we’re going to use.Now, you can use any grill setup for indirect heat because we’re going to be baking today. I’m using the grill dome. You will need a tray of some sort, a round pizza pan works really well. You’re going to need a cooking grate. This is actually for pizzas and then a drip pan. Ingredients-wise, you’re going to need about a half a pound of either ground beef or ground turkey, ground pork or mixture combination of any of these would work just fine. Two tablespoons of water, one cup of shredded cheddar cheese, this is sharp. Four tablespoons have taco seasoning of your choice. And two tubes of cheddar crescent rolls.
And we’re going to simply combine all the ingredients except for the crescent rolls.
Take your ground meat of choice, your taco seasoning. Now I will tell you that with turkey go on the heavy side, with beef you can go a little bit lighter, but it’s entirely your choice. Cheddar cheese and the water and mix.
Now you want to simply form 16 meatballs.
You could make them bigger if you want, but I will try to keep them relatively small because we have to wrap the crescent rolls around them.
Now that the meatballs are formed you want to put them in a preheated grill at 400 degrees.
We’re going to bake them for 10 to 12 minutes.
So when your meatballs are done and I want to note that if you are using turkey or chicken, make sure that they reach an internal temperature of 165 degrees.
We need to pull them off and let them rest and cool down.
While our meatballs are cooling down we’re going to prepare our crescent rolls.
So take your pan that you’re going to cook these on and give that a good coating of vegetable oil and take our crescent rolls and open them up. We’ve never worked with crescent rolls before, they are pretty decent-sized triangles and you’re going to get basically a sheet. And then lay it so that tip overhangs and we’re just going to evenly lay these out and around so that one roll takes up about half of your pan. So once you have your dough laid out, I think I got 15 on here, and what you want to do is then take a meatball and you want to just curl the dough around that. So it looks just about like that.
Now we want to place this in our preheated grill dome which is at 400 degrees. We’re going to bake it for about 12 minutes.
While that’s baking, let’s talk about our toppings.
So our basic ingredients is going to, of course, include avocado. I have some shredded iceberg lettuce, diced red onion, beautiful orange cherry tomatoes, diced up green onion, salsa of your choice and heat, cheddar cheese, shredded. We’re going to need some more.
Of course, you can add other ingredients like jalapenos, refried beans and on and on and on.
These bad boys are done. Look at that. Set these off to cool for a little bit and we’re going to top them off. We are ready to put this together. Now, the first thing I do is I take a pizza cutter and I separate my segments.
This will make it much easier for your guests to get a slice.
Then we start laying it on. I start out with my lettuce and I sprinkle some green onions, some red onions. I’ll get my beautiful cherry tomatoes. Then I’ll lay on some beautiful avocado. Once that’s one, I will drizzle some of my salsa.
And then we’ll finish off with our cheese, little sour cream for those of you that love sour cream.
And that, my friends, is how we do it.
That’s it. I will see you when I see you.
