Meatball Sub Casserole

Ingredients:

To make this recipe, you will need the following ingredients;

• Loaf of French bread or ours
• Butter or Margarine
• 1/2 teaspoon garlic salt, 8 oz  of cream cheese, softened to room temperature
• 2 tablespoons of mayonnaise
• 1/2 teaspoon of Italian seasoning
• 1 pound of frozen, fully cooked, thawed Italian meatballs (NOTE; it is often sold in 2 pound bags so use only ½ a bag.)
• 1 can Hunts Spaghetti Sauce(any flavor, our favourite is Garlic and Herb)
• 2 cups shredded mozzarella cheese

One important thing you should note is that, the quantities of ingredients stated above is for about six to eight (6-8) servings. If you need to feed more people or you want to increase the number of servings, you would have to tweak the recipe a little. Now it is quite easy to adjust a recipe in order to meet your servings’ requirement. The quantities of each and every single ingredient in the recipes, have to be proportionately increased to meet the proposed requirement.

Equipments:

• An oven (preferably one that is temperature regulated)
• 9×13 metal or glass pan
• Electric mixer
• Spatula
• A baking pan

For the sake of being thorough, we’ll go ahead and add all the small bowls, spoons, cups that are bound to find their way into the dishwasher at the end of the cooking session.

 Instructions:

There is a little recommendation that we’d like to give before we begin with our directions, and that is: Clear away the clutter. If you have any clutter in your cooking area or on your cooking surfaces, you should probably clear it away before you begin to tackle this recipe.

Not only is this good for your hygiene’s sake but it will create space on the counter tip for you to measure out your ingredients and arrange them on your counter top. Clear the clutter on your cooking/baking surfaces and maeasure out your ingredients but do not mix the ingredients together until the recipe tells you to do so. That’s because there is a technique to this.

– Turn oven on to broil. Slice the French bread into thick one inch slices. Butter one side slightly. Place on a cookie sheet with buttered side up. Repeat with the remainder of slices. Very lightly sprinkle the bread with garlic salt. Broil until toasty on the edges.

– Turn oven down to 350 degrees. Spray a 9×13 metal or glass pan with cooking spray. Place bread (toasted side up) into your 9×13 pan. Fill it up leaving very few gaps; cut one slice into pieces if necessary to fill large gaps. In a medium bowl, combine the cream cheese, mayonnaise and Italian seasoning using an electric mixer until smooth (be sure to scrape down the sides of your bowl). Using a Spatula, spread the mix over all the bread slices creating a sheet of the cream cheese mix.

– Cut the thawed meatballs in half sprinkling them all over the cream cheese mix.

– Pour your can of Spaghetti sauce evenly over the meatballs.

– Evenly sprinkle the shredded mozzarella over the spaghetti sauce.

– Bake for 30 minutes until heated all the way through and cheese is golden and bubbly.

– Serve, dig in and enjoy!