Spittinis

Total Time: 40 mins Preparation Time: 20 mins Cook Time: 20 mins

Ingredients

• 1 lb chopped beef
• 2 eggs
• 1/4 cup parsley flakes
• 1/4 cup grated locatelli cheese or 1/4 cup parmesan cheese
• salt and pepper
• 4 slices bread
• 1/2 lb mozzarella cheese
• 1 cup seasoned dry bread crumb
• oil (for frying)
• 12 wooden skewers

Recipe

• 1 soak wooden skewers in water for 1 hour.
• 2 lightly toast 3 slices of bread and cut each slice into 9 pieces.
• 3 soak 1 slice of bread in milk and squeeze out reserving excess milk.
• 4 slice mozzarella and cut into 18 pieces.
• 5 in bowl combine chop meat, squeezed slice of bread, 1 egg, grated cheese, parsley, salt and pepper.
• 6 mix well with your hands.
• 7 separate beef mixture into 18 pieces and roll each piece round like a little meatball.
• 8 hold 2 skewers together with a little space inbetween and place one piece of bread on skewers, followed by a meatball followed by a piece of mozzarella, then another piece of bread, meatball and mozzarella, then another bread, meatball, mozzarella and end with bread.
• 9 beat egg and excess milk together.
• 10 roll filled skewers in egg mixture and then in breadcrumbs making sure to coat the whole thing.
• 11 heat oil in large frying pan.
• 12 if wooden skewers are too long, cut off excess leaving about 3/4" on each end.
• 13 fry in oil turning often as mozzarella melts and you want to coat the spittini with the mozzarella and not lose it.
• 14 serve warm or cold - great the next day.