Elevate your football party with our one-of-a-kind Italian sausage and peppers sliders. The secret? A juicy meatball cleverly embedded into the bun. With a marinara sauce made from scratch, sautéed onions, peppers, garlic, and topped with rich mozzarella cheese, these meatball sliders with a twist are not just a dish, they are an experience. These sausage meatball topped sliders are bursting with flavor and they’re sure to score big with your crowd
Make unique Italian sausage and peppers sliders. These sausage meatball topped sliders with a twist have a meatball embedded into the bun! Great for tailgating or football parties!
We’ve taken the traditional sausage and peppers slider and turned it on its head! With a meatball snugly nested in each bun, dripping in marinara sauce, sprinkled with sautéed peppers, onions, and garlic, and topped with a blanket of mozzarella cheese. Now that’s a twist for the food history books! Question is, are you game to give it a try? Are you ready to elevate your food game and make your taste buds dance with joy?
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Calling all foodies and football fans! We’ve taken tailgate food to a whole new level with our Italian sausage and peppers sliders. Dive into the unique twist of meatball-embedded buns, overflowing with a savory pepper and onion marinara sauce and crowned with molten mozzarella cheese. Kick off your party with these game-winning sliders!
These Italian sausage sliders are filled with the flavors of sautéed onions, peppers and garlic in a marinara sauce. Plus plenty of mozzarella cheese make these meatball sliders with a twist absolutely delicious.
Sausage and Peppers Sliders Recipe:
These Italian sausage sliders are filled with the flavors of sautéed onions, peppers and garlic in a marinara sauce. Plus plenty of mozzarella cheese make these meatball sliders with a twist absolutely delicious.
Ingredients
- 1 pound of sweet Italian sausage
- Red Bell Pepper
- medium onion
- 1 clove of garlic
- 1 cup of marinara
- 1 package of 12 slider rolls
- 10 slices of Mozzarella cheese
- 1 cup of grated mozzarella or parmesan
- Butter
- Garlic Powder
Equipment Needed:
- Cookie scoop
- Sheet Pan
- Parchment Paper
- 9 X 13 baking pan
- Aluminum Foil
- 1 ¾ inch cookie cutter
- Pastry Brush
How to Make these Sausage Meatball Topped Sliders:
Preheat oven to 350° F. and line a sheet pan with parchment paper. Use a cookie scoop to make 12 equal sized meatballs and place them on the sheet pan. Bake in the preheated oven for 20-25 minutes until done.
Finely chop the red bell pepper and pell and chop the onion creating about 1 cup of chopped onions. Mince the garlic clove.
In a medium skillet, heat olive oil over medium high heat.
Add the chopped peppers and onions to the skillet and sauté until onions are translucent and peppers are tender. Add the garlic and sauté for 1-2 minutes.
Pour in the marinara and stir to combine. Continue to cook until the sauce is hot, remove from heat and keep warm until you start to assemble the sausage and peppers sliders.
Line a 9 X 13 inch baking pan with aluminum foil leaving enough extra to cover the pan later. Keep the slider buns connected and lift the tops off and set aside. Place the bottom buns in the baking pan to create the first layer in these sausage and peppers sliders.
Complete cover the bottom slider buns with the sliced mozzarella cheese slices, cutting the slices if needed.
Spoon the marinara sauce over the cheese slices and spread evenly. Make sure the sauce extends to cover each slider.
Place the tops of the slider buns on a cutting board. Then to make these meatball sliders with a twist, use a 1¾ inch biscuit cutter to cut holes in the tops of each of these slider buns.
Carefully place the still connected top buns over the marinara sauce.
Add garlic powder to the melted butter in a small dish and mix well.
Use a pastry brush to liberally brush the garlic butter mixture on the tops of the buns. Make sure and coat them completely.
Place a cooked sausage ball into each hole and press them down carefully until they are into the marinara sauce. Cover the the meatball topped sliders with the extra foil and place in your preheated oven. Bake the sausage and peppers sliders for about 15 minutes to melt the mozzarella cheese.
Remove from oven and remove foil cover. Top your meatball topped sliders with shredded parmesan or mozzarella cheese and return to oven for 1-2 minutes until the cheese is melted. Remove from oven and serve.
This is a whole new twist on a sausage meatball and pepper slider. We have an awesome pepper and onion marinara sauce on slider rolls with plenty of mozzarella cheese and an Italian meatball embedded in the very top of the slider bun. These meatball topped sliders are a great dish for football parties or tailgating.
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Sausage and Peppers Sliders
Equipment
Ingredients
- 1 pound sweet Italian sausage
- 1 Red Bell Pepper
- 1 medium onion
- 1 clove garlic
- 1 cup marinara
- 1 package of 12 slider rolls
- 10 slices Mozzarella cheese
- 1 cup grated mozzarella or parmesan
- Butter
- Garlic Powder
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350° F. and line a sheet pan with parchment paper. Use a cookie scoop to make 12 equal sized meatballs and place them on the sheet pan. Bake in the preheated oven for 20-25 minutes until done.
- Finely chop the red bell pepper and pell and chop the onion creating about 1 cup of chopped onions. Mince the garlic clove.
- In a medium skillet, heat olive oil over medium high heat. Add the chopped peppers and onions to the skillet and sauté until onions are translucent and peppers are tender. Add the garlic and sauté for 1-2 minutes.
- Pour in the marinara and stir to combine. Continue to cook until the sauce is hot, remove from heat and keep warm until you start to assemble the sausage and peppers sliders.
- Line a 9 X 13 inch baking pan with aluminum foil leaving enough extra to cover the pan later. Keep the slider buns connected and lift the tops off and set aside. Place the bottom buns in the baking pan to create the first layer in these sausage and peppers sliders.
- Complete cover the bottom slider buns with the sliced mozzarella cheese slices, cutting the slices if needed.
- Spoon the marinara sauce over the cheese slices and spread evenly. Make sure the sauce extends to cover each slider.
- Place the tops of the slider buns on a cutting board. Use a 1¾ inch biscuit cutter to cut holes in the tops of each of these slider buns.
- Carefully place the still connected top buns over the marinara sauce
- Add garlic powder to the melted butter in a small dish and mix well.
- Use a pastry brush to liberally brush the garlic butter mixture on the tops of the buns. Make sure and coat them completely.
- Place a cooked sausage ball into each hole and press them down carefully until they are into the marinara sauce. Cover the the meatball topped sliders with the extra foil and place in your preheated oven. Bake the sausage and peppers sliders for about 15 minutes to melt the mozzarella cheese.
- Remove from oven and remove foil cover. Top your meatball topped sliders with shredded parmesan or mozzarella cheese and return to oven for 1-2 minutes until the cheese is melted. Remove from oven and serve.
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