CHEESE MEATBALL PO BOY

John Folse's Favorite Po'Boy

Recipe courtesy of Chef John Folse
Serves 10

Ingredients:
1 pound ground beef
1 pound ground pork into a large bowl
6 eggs, lightly beaten
1/2 cup minced onions and
1/2 cup minced celery.
1/4 cup minced garlic
1/2 cup grated Parmesan Cheese plus more for serving
1 cup seasoned Italian bread crumbs
salt, pepper, and granulated garlic
1/4 cup minced basil
20 1/2 inch cubes Pepper Jack cheese
Your favorite tomato sauce
10 hot French rolls


John Folse's Sicilian Meatball Po'boy
Gently combine beef and pork in a large mixing bowl. Gently fold in eggs, onion, celery, garlic,Parmesan, bread crumbs, salt, pepper, and granulated garlic to taste, and minced basil. Form into 20 meatballs, and use your finger to punch a hole into the middle of each meatball. Add add a piece of cubed cheese to each meatball and seal to enclose the cheese.

Place the raw meatballs into a pot of your favorite tomato sauce and simmer the meatballs in the gravy for 45 minutes, gently stirring as not to break the meatballs. Serve two meatballs with gravy on a hot French roll topped with grated Parmesan Cheese