Spinach (and Sausage) Balls!

This weekend Aaron and I had a little party to go to with some of my coworkers. I decided to make my mom’s spinach ball recipe. Unfortunately, she couldn’t find her recipe, so I improvised with this one from All Recipes.com: http://allrecipes.com/Recipe/Spinach-Balls/Detail.aspx

First, be sure to drain the spinach thoroughly.

Then you just add bread crumbs and parmesan cheese.

Since we knew some folks weren’t spinach fans, we also made some sausage balls too.

Basically the same idea here. We wanted to spice things up a bit so we did shallots with the sausage and onions and garlic with the spinach (instead of just garlic powder).

Don’t those shallots look gorgeous? Aaron also had the idea to add some extra sharp cheddar cheese to the mix  to give it more punch – and of course, more cheese is always a good idea.

Then we also mixed in the Italian spices, pepper, melted butter and egg.

Then you just form it into balls, just like you would with traditional meatballs.

Then you take the beauties and pop then in the oven for about 20 minutes at 350. Then they get all nice and crunchy like this…

We served ours with marina and tatziki sauce, which were awesome. My mom also serves hers with Chinese sweet and sour sauce. One warning about tatziki sauce – you probably will not be able to buy it at the regular grocery store. We finally found ours at a Greek restaurant, but I think eventually I want to try to make it myself.

So stay tuned for that adventure.